Ancient Mariner Morals

It All Comes With Age

(Three Messages from the Poem Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Coleridge)

Everyone has probably heard the saying, “Boys will be boys.” It is a very popular saying and has been around for a very long time. The reason that people are saying this more often than not is because the boys are probably doing something childish and very irrelevant to anything happening. It is probably some stupid bet and something mildly bad happened. In the end everyone ended up laughing about it anyway though. It is funny how things like these instances happen, most of the time there is some little bet or something and next thing you know someone ends up lying on the ground with an injury. Samuel Coleridge is a very famous author that

There are plenty of innocent things in the world and more often than not we take these for granted and do something stupid with it. The bird in the story is extremely innocent and is doing nothing wrong yet he shoots the bird because of a bet. The poem says, “He prayeth well, who loveth well both man and bird and beast.” (Lines 612-613) It says that whatever controlling what is happening is upset because of the killing of this bird that has done nothing wrong. It is just like when someone makes a bet and ends up hurt, it all seemed so innocent but something bad happened in the end. We forget to appreciate the innocence of the world and realize that it should stay that way, there isn’t any need to kill off the innocent. They are doing nothing to bother or harm but it ends up bad

When you think of wisdom you often think of older people. The reason is because they have lived longer and seen a lot more things in their life than you. You call these old people wise, and with wisdom you have had to go through experience. This is where the author says the wisdom and sadness go together. Because you have become wiser about something, more often than not you have to go through a horrible time first to gain this wisdom. That is why there is sadness to the wisdom. The pain and the struggles are what give this to you, without them you would never have obtained the knowledge in the first place. He says in the poem, “He went like one that hath been stunned and is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man, he rose the morrow morn.” (Lines 622-625) I think this is at the end of the poem because that is what he really wants to strike home. He wants you to know that in life you will go through experiences that will break you down to an extremely low point. In the end of it though, you will be much wiser in your life. Wisdom doesn’t come free, you have to go through the storm to see the