“All humans learn from each others mistakes. Intelligent humans learn from their own.” Throughout our lives, we learn many different lessons. Often the most important lessons we learn are from mistakes we have made ourselves. One lesson that I have learned in my life is to try to never give up. In Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the old man learns a lesson as well. He learned to love nature and to not hurt it. One mistake I have made was I always give up with everything. I give up when doing homework because it looks hard and I quit the wrestling team because it was too hard. For some reason i just always seem to give up. But, I learned to try to do something and to never give up. I try to do my homework even if it …show more content…
As time went on, he realized that killing the albatross was a bad idea. When the mariner shot the albatross, everything went wrong. His crewmates died, he was stranded in the middle of the ocean, and his soul is now in the hands of Nightmare Life-In-Death and he will now never die. The mariner has learned a big lesson. The lesson that the mariner has learned after this experience is to respect nature and never hurt it. Now since the mariner can never die, he now shares his story with others. He teaches them to never hurt or harm nature in any way, or else something might happen to you. One example from the poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” that shows what happened after he shot the albatross was “Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, ‘Twas sad as sad could be; and we did not speak only to break the silence of the dead sea” (Coleridge 15). After he shot the albatross, the ship suddenly stopped moving, they were stuck in the hot sun for a long time, and they got dehydrated and could not speak. Every once in awhile, the mariner feels pain and agony until he shares his story and life lesson with others. In the poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, it states “Since then, at an uncertain hour, that agony returns; and till my ghastly tale is told, this heart within me burns.” (Coleridge 29). That was about the mariners big mistake in “The Rime of the Ancient