“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The poem stated with the mariner was telling a story in a wedding banquet, and he told the guests about his horrible experience of sailing. The disaster happened after the old mariner shot the Albatross with his impulse, which set horrible consequences later on. The setting of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” was terrible and supernatural. There were two important animals in the poem, one of them was the Albatross, and the other was the water snake. Both creatures served crucial elements throughout the poem. In the opening of the Mariner’s story, an Albatross emerged from the mist, and the sailors considered it as a sign of good luck, and they think it was a sacred soul sent by God to protect them. However, the Ancient Mariner shot the Albatross down to prove that it was not a sacred spirit but simply a normal creature. However, the Albatross was strongly tied with the spiritual world, and its death brought punishment of the spiritual world with means of natural world on the Ancient Mariner. The Albatross …show more content…
(“The many men, so beautiful! / And they all dead and lie:/ And a thousand thousand slimy things/ Lived on; and so did I.) The dead Albatross hung around his neck as punishment, and fell into the ocean as the change from punishment to repentance. His sins were redeemed after he prayed for the deceased crewmembers, and appreciated their beauty. The water snake symbolized humbleness and salvation, as the Mariner knew how to appreciate and respect the beauty of all creatures. The water snake also represented a symbol of redemption of the sacrilege to