Jacob Ms Ross ELA 11/12 24 february 2023 ____________________ What goes through the mind of a man who gets his friends killed? Does he move on, hurt himself, or maybe he grabs some random guy off the street to tell his story? What could drive a man to confess to some guy on the side of the street but the feeling of guilt? This happens in Coleridge's poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”. We hear the story of the ancient mariner as he tells some random guy off the street. The ancient marine from Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is a fascinating character; I mean, who just grabs a guy off the street to tell your story to, and what drives him to do so, maybe guilt, self-satisfaction, or fear. The mariner is in so much emotional pain from what he did this has led to him surfing greatly. This has made the mariner wish for someone to forgive him or relieve him of guilt. …show more content…
He is regretting decisions and his soul is surfing for it. The pain in his soul shows how much he regrets the choices he made. He is suffering for his choice; he is not just in pain but in agony over them. “Since then at an uncertain …show more content…
As humans are social creatures we do not do well if we are alone for a long time. It can drive people crazy or give them a fear of being alone. We see this in the mariner: he does not want to be alone so he forces people to listen to him tell his story. This is not just my opinion he tells us himself that he is lonely “O Wedding-Guest! this soul hath been/ Alone on a wide wide sea:/ So lonely 'twas, that God himself/ Scarce seemed there to be.” (Coleridge ln 597-599).Loneliness is a great motivator to do things it drives people to do things that they would not normally