Ancient Mariner Changes

Many poets from the Romantic period have usually stuck with the nature side of that era, where everything they wrote was basically based around things in nature, or the nature of someone or something. But Coleridge comes at us with something totally unexpected and exhilaratingly brilliant that it totally changes your perspective on the matter. Coleridge stands at a place where all real life slips into dreams and facts are reborn as fantasies. More than any other Romantic poet, he dared to journey inward, deep into the world of the imagination. One of Coleridge’s most exciting yet daunting pieces of poetry is “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” In this poem, we learn about twisted tales of an unfortunate soul who damns himself, but then redeems

In the poem, the mariner had killed the bird and was cast over with a horrible curse that he later reverses due to repenting his sins. When the ancient mariner killed the albatross with his cross bow, it was almost as if they were instantaneously damned by the heavens and most of them would not return home to their families due to one man’s actions. Since he killed the bird, they all had to suffer for days until one day they all dropped dead on the deck. They died of dehydration and lack of nutrients, for they had run out of food. The mariner never meant to get them killed, but every eye of the dead was ever fixed on the mariner, making him feel the guilt of his actions upon him from every angle. So one night while sitting on the front of the ship, with the cursed bird hanging around his neck, he repented his sins and the bird immediately fell from his neck into the water below. After that, it began to rain giving him water, he was able to sleep, and when he awoke, the ship was sailing home, but there was no wind or current. So repenting your sins can bring you good things if you can pay for what you’ve

After he repented his sins, the crew was resurrected from the dead, and sailed the ship for him all the way back to his home. When stage one and two of his repentance is complete, the third stage is that the ship is being pushed along, but not by wind or ocean currents. It was being pushed along by forces unknown, under the water. They helped the ship to sail all the way from the middle of nowhere in the water, all the way back to his home. While this happened, all of the dead crew members resurrected from the dead, and began to help sail the ship all the way back to his home. So the reanimation of his fellow sailors helped him to return to his home and to restore his health, so that he can go around and tell people of his life and death