In the poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a sailor stops a man who is on his way to a wedding. The mariner begins telling the man a story, and in the man’s attempt to leave, is sucked into his story and forced to listen. The mariner begins with his voyage setting sail southward, when a terrible storm comes upon his ship and traps him in ice. He then sees an albatross, which is in the form of a bird, and helps his crew break free from the ice. The mariner then kills the bird, upsetting his crew, because they believe the bird was an omen of god. But after the bird has been killed the fog clears and the fair breeze continues, blowing the ship north into the Pacific, and the crew comes to believe the bird was the source of the god and mist