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The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

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Do you ever feel you are stronger than nature,or can dominate it? Humankind often thinks that they have control over nature, but often when they think that, that’s when nature takes control of mankind.
In Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Mariner wants to tell a story to a wedding guest. When he tells the story, he explains how he didn’t but to much thought into nature. “From the fiends, that plague thee thus!--Why look’st thou so?’--With my cross-bow I shot the ALBATROSS” (Part I). The Mariner shot a bird that brought no harm to him or his boat. It was so pure like a “Christian Soul” He thought he could do whatever to nature, and there would be no consequences. In the beginning the Mariner thought he had
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