“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
The one who wrote this magnificent piece of poetry was Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This piece is called “Rime” (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner), and it must be an outstanding work of mastery if we are still talking about it today. Coleridge’s life-span was 62 years of age. He was born in the year 1772 and died on the year 1834. He was born in Ottery St. Mary. In Ottery St. Mary he was born on the Devon coast of England and Coleridge was the last of 10 children, he was the youngest. He really took this story from reality to imagination or fantasy. This is explained when, at an early age, he was succumbed to the world of books. His dad died when he was at the young age of nine years old and the Coleridge was sent to a different school. This school, the new one he went to, was located in
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Suffering is basically measured by the one who is dwelling, meddling in the suffering. This word, suffering, is defined as pain, in a broad sense, and it may be an experience of uncomfortability, unpleasantness which is accompanied or pertaining with the perception of harm. The Mariner tells the boy that he is cursed to live, that is the Mariner’s suffering. This is his suffering because he shot the albatross, this bird with a small body but huge wingspan, and the sailors thought that the albatross was the thing which saved them from the unclenching grip of the ice and the boat. Once the Mariner shot the albatross everything became still. The ocean became still and like a mirror, the wind was nowhere to be found so they were stuck. They, which are the sailors, blamed the Mariner. Heck, he blamed himself. After each of the other sailors passed one by one they fell to the ground with their eyes wide open looking at the Mariner and they even followed him. Before they passed, they hung the albatross on the Mariner’s neck and that was his “weight” that he was suppose to endure. That was his wait of