Coleridge’s poem
In the Rime of the Ancient Mariner there is supernatural occurrence, symbols of nature, and a spiritual meaning. This ballad presents, a old sailor who is telling this guy, who’s on his way to a wedding, a story about his disastrous journey he took.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner published in 1798. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Coleridge, involves a old sailor/mariner who experiences life and death. There was a ship, which set out to sail, and was blown off course. On the voyage home, the ship got caught in a cold fog, and an albatross appears by the ship, and in the fog the ship sails with the albatross, a bird of good fortune. Samuel Coleridge joins together natural symbols such as the Albatross with a religious symbol like Christ, that emphasis on his thought…show more content… (The sun is associated with heat and dehydration and the thirst kills the Sailors. It is also used to tell which direction the ship is traveling. The moon, symbolizes the supernatural and divine influences on nature.) (Shmoop Editorial Team) We know that the ship of Death and Life-in-Death is over the sun because it arrives in daylight, before the sun sets, it’s replaced by the moon. Another symbol is eyes, First off, the Mariner gets the Wedding Guest attention by his “glittering eye.” The eye has a lot of meanings, it can mean control and also a form of communication. When words fail, they could communicate with their eyes. The sailor also gives the Mariner a look with their eyes when they are too thirsty to speak. Eyes also symbolize the means of communication between humans and the natural world. It is through the eyes that we observe nature. The Mariner observes the Albatross, the Sun and Moon, and the rest of the natural world with the power of sight. For example, when the Mariner spies a ship and realizes its ghostly as it
