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    Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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    The poem relates the experiences of a sailor known as the Ancient Mariner. He stops a man who is headed to a wedding ceremony and tells him his tale. The Mariner's ship departed on a journey but became lost in an unexpected storm that brought them to Antarctica. The crew blamed the Mariner for shooting an albatross that had helped guide them out of the storm. As punishment, he was forced to wear the dead bird around his neck. All of the crew eventually died except for the Mariner, who was cursed to wander as a penance for killing the albatross. After telling his story, the Wedding Guest returns home wiser for having heard it.

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    Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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    The poem relates the experiences of a sailor known as the Ancient Mariner. He stops a man who is headed to a wedding ceremony and tells him his tale. The Mariner's ship departed on a journey but became lost in an unexpected storm that brought them to Antarctica. The crew blamed the Mariner for shooting an albatross that had helped guide them out of the storm. As punishment, he was forced to wear the dead bird around his neck. All of the crew eventually died except for the Mariner, who was cursed to wander as a penance for killing the albatross. After telling his story, the Wedding Guest returns home wiser for having heard it.

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    The poem relates the experiences of a sailor known as the Ancient Mariner. He stops a man who is headed to a wedding ceremony and tells him his tale. The Mariner's ship departed on a journey but became lost in an unexpected storm that brought them to Antarctica. The crew blamed the Mariner for shooting an albatross that had helped guide them out of the storm. As punishment, he was forced to wear the dead bird around his neck. All of the crew eventually died except for the Mariner, who was cursed to wander as a penance for killing the albatross. After telling his story, the Wedding Guest returns home wiser for having heard it.

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    Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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    The poem relates the experiences of a sailor known as the Ancient Mariner. He stops a man who is headed to a wedding ceremony and tells him his tale. The Mariner's ship departed on a journey but became lost in an unexpected storm that brought them to Antarctica. The crew blamed the Mariner for shooting an albatross that had helped guide them out of the storm. As punishment, he was forced to wear the dead bird around his neck. All of the crew eventually died except for the Mariner, who was cursed to wander as a penance for killing the albatross. After telling his story, the Wedding Guest returns home wiser for having heard it.

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    The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the longest major poem by the English poet

    Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads.


    The Rime of the Ancient Mariner relates the experiences of a sailor who has
    returned from a long sea voyage. The poem starts when the Mariner stops a man who
    is on the way to a wedding ceremony and begins to narrate a story. Although the
    Wedding-Guest's is intrigued by the Mariners gesture, he sits down on a rock,
    bewitched by the Mariners glittering eyes.
    The Mariner's tale begins with his ship departing on its journey, than it takes a
    wrong course because of an unexpected storm and eventually reaches Antarctica. An
    albatross appears like ,,a Christian soul and leads them out of the Antarctic but, even
    as the albatross is praised by the ship's crew, the Mariner shoots the bird with the
    cross-bow.
    The crew is angry with the Mariner, believing the albatross brought the south
    wind that led them out of the Antarctic. However, the sailors change their minds when
    the weather becomes warmer and the mist disappears ("'Twas right, said they, such
    birds to slay / that bring the fog and mist"). The south wind that had initially led them
    from the land of ice now sends the ship into uncharted waters, so now the crew realize
    the big mistake and blame again the Mariner and forces him wear the dead albatross
    about his neck, as a symbol of a cross to carry (,,Instead of the cross, the albatross /
    About my neck was hung").
    When the crew was thirsty and dehidrated, the Mariner saw another ship and
    two silhouettes so he cuts himself and sucks his blood in order to announce the crew
    that they are saved. On board are Death (a skeleton) and the "Night-mare Life-inDeath" (a deathly-pale woman), who are playing dice for the souls of the crew. Death
    wins the lives of the crew members and Life-in-Death the life of the Mariner, a prize
    she considers more valuable and that suggests a fate worse than death.

    One by one, all of the crew members die, but the Mariner lives on, seeing for
    seven days and nights the last expression remain upon the crews faces. The curse is
    erased when he blesses the water snakes and, suddenly, he manages praying and the
    albatross falls down from his neck. The bodies of the crew, possessed by good spirits,
    rise again and steer the ship back home, where it sinks in a whirlpool, leaving only the
    Mariner behind. A hermit on the mainland had seen the approaching ship and had
    come to meet it with a pilot and the pilot's boy in a boat. When they pull him from the
    water, they think he is dead, but when he opens his mouth, the pilot has a fit. The
    hermit prays, and the Mariner picks up the oars to row.
    The pilot's boy goes crazy and laughs, thinking the Mariner is the devil, and
    says, "The Devil knows how to row." As penance for shooting the albatross, the
    Mariner, driven by guilt, is forced to wander the earth, tell his story, and teach a
    lesson to those he meets.
    After relating the story, the Mariner leaves, and the Wedding Guest returns
    home, and wakes the next morning "a sadder and a wiser man".
    -symbols: the sun (the killing sun, unmerciful God), the moon (the benevolent God),
    sleep and dreaming, the albatross, the mist+the fog+the ice+the storm, wind(symbol
    of life), the hermit, the cross-bow (a weapon), the Death and the Life-in-Death.
    -dichotomies: life/death, old/ young, south/east, slow/fast, here/there, left/right,
    stuck/moved, day/night, heaven/ hell, sea/sky, sound/silence, bless/curst, body/ soul,
    sleep/ awake, backwards/ forwards, slave/ lord, God/ Devil

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