The rhyme of a ancient mariner is a story of a man who is on his way to a wedding when suddenly he is stopped by a mariner, who transfixes the man with his stories of his ancient adventure. The man knows he is going to be late for the wedding, but he can not break free of the mariners hold, the mariner has a ¨glittering eye¨ that the man is fixed upon. The mariner tells the man about a time he was sailing they were trying to evade a oncoming storm. When they get caught in a icefield covered in fog. He tells the man about a albatross who appears and seems to guide them through the field,but then he decided to shoot the albatross then suddenly it turns very hot and the ship seems to be haunted. They begin to see creatures on the sea they begin