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The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner Essay

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a detailed poem that explains to the audience the, Mariner’s journey in a secluded manner. Once reading this poem and analyse Coleridge’s message you will understand that all choices have consequences for which you must be responsibly for. This poem connects with the allegory of crime, punishment, redemption because of the Mariner’s action caused everything. This poem is a typical archetypal journey because by the Mariner personality has caused a sequence of events to happen that all lead up to one main focus. The Mariner continues explain his journey to the people attending the wedding reception. Crime is an important factor when Mariner begin to kill all of the albatross and wear them around his neck. After Mariner tell the guest at the wedding reception several of them are view disturbed because the albatross is a known bird in the beliefs. Once this was stated it had brought danger towards them and …show more content…

Since the mariner has forced the Death to kill everyone on the ship except himself the supernatural comes apart and decides to make a deal with him. The supernatural and the Mariner had to flip a coin to decide how the mariner was going to live his life. There are two ways for him to live his life dead or a life close to death. This connects to the beginning at the wedding when a lot of the guest looked at the mariner in a very bilious manner.“ Alone, alone , all, all alone, alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took a pity on her soul in agony. The many men , so beautiful ! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things. Lived on; and so did I” connect to how the supernatural had a crucial decision and constriction it brought onto the mariner. Throughout the poem you could see the mariner final understand his action but still made no efforts to make it right and fixing the problem that he

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