![]() The deaths occurred when a ship was sited and on it, two women-like figures were playing dice and life won the Mariner and death got the crew. ![]() Yet he lives so that he can realize what he has done and be given a chance to ask forgiveness for his sin. ![]() This curse, the killing of an Albatross – one of God’s creatures, costs the entire crew on the ship their lives. That is, the reader is to follow, live, and participate with the idea of the poem.Ĭoleridge tells of a Mariner on a ship who makes a sin against God and therefore is cursed. ![]() The “Wedding Guest” in the poem represents “everyday man” in the sense that “everyone” is to be at the marriage of the Mariner to life. The Mariner in the poem is telling his tale to a “Wedding Guest” who has no choice but to listen and to believe. The whole point of the poem is to encourage or convince the reader to believe the tale that Coleridge tells. Such creature was to bring them the wind that they needed to put power into the sails of the ship. The Mariner is supposedly responsible for the death of all of the crew on his ship because of his killing of a creature. ![]() The poem itself is about a Mariner who is telling his tale of sin and forgiveness by God to a man referred to as the “Wedding Guest.” Coleridge’s poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is written in a way that the reader is expected to temporarily allow him or herself to believe it to be able to understand it. ![]()
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