To Be or Not To Be
(Three Messages from Rime the Ancient Mariner)
In the short story Rime there was many different themes to show the main topic. There is pride, suffering, and isolation, which the pride is for the important sins that happen throughout life. Suffering is the only way that people can be changed for the better due to the uphill battle. Isolation is for the man that travels the sea all by himself looking for the lost souls of his other mates that were on the boat with him. In the short story Rime there has been many life lessons that can be learned. In Rime the first message is pride because pride is the most basic and important sins in the human language. Pride is due to what people think might be a good and happy feeling but
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With this message is isolation it is due to the fact that he is the only sailor that has lived through the ship chaos and he now has to tell people the story by himself. The sailor wonders the sea by himself looking for the lost souls of his other shipmates and he suffers by himself. When they chose to make a bad turn on the ship which turned them into a cursed area which then threw the ship all different ways and killed the entire crew except the one sailor. “Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony. (Lines 9-12 Part 4)” In this quote it talks about how he was all alone and he had nobody to talk to or be around. Rime of the ancient mariner has shown many life lessons like if you do not listen to the right people then you may become lonely or isolated. You will also suffer with that isolation and you have no pride to show for anything to be happy about. This short story has been able to show people that if you do not listen to your gut feeling bad things can happen to the people around you or even to you. This ancient mariner has shown people to not ignore bad feeling but instead he did and he lost his entire crew and he now has to live to tell the story all
The author shows the reader the sea just as the sailor does as death, but more than death
The story describes the protagonist who is coming of age as torn between the two worlds which he loves equally, represented by his mother and his father. He is now mature and is reflecting on his life and the difficulty of his childhood as a fisherman. Despite becoming a university professor and achieving his father’s dream, he feels lonely and regretful since, “No one waits at the base of the stairs and no boat rides restlessly in the waters of the pier” (MacLeod 261). Like his father, the narrator thinks about what his life could have been like if he had chosen another path. Now, with the wisdom and experience that comes from aging and the passing of time, he is trying to make sense of his own life and accept that he could not please everyone. The turmoil in his mind makes the narrator say, “I wished that the two things I loved so dearly did not exclude each other in a manner that was so blunt and too clear” (MacLeod 273). Once a decision is made, it is sometimes better to leave the past and focus on the present and future. The memories of the narrator’s family, the boat and the rural community in which he spent the beginning of his life made the narrator the person who he is today, but it is just a part of him, and should not consume his present.
The poem The Seafarer which belongs to the sea elegies found in the Exter Book and, can be read as an allegorial voyage poem, such allegories of journeys were richly explored in later religious poems. [L. Sikorska: 2005, p. 25] This work is divided into two parts. In the first one we can notice the story of seafarer who describes hardships of life on the sea, whereas in the second one we can find some christian elements. He approves of honest living and higher values as friendship and love.
The significance of sighting the Albatross represents the first living creature the crew has seen, while stranded in the barren South Pole. When the Mariner shoots the bird, he is faced with judgements passed by his crewmates and natural obstacles that occur for minor periods, punishments passed by god are done mentally...
one awful day when the sun was setting I got my crossbow and did shoot
Isolation and collectedness is an important theme throughout the whole story. These themes might seem contradictory, but the point of the story is to show how everyone is separate from each other and somehow attempt to connect in our aloneness. Isolation is easy to find in the story. For example, while Howard is driving home, he has thoughts of how he never really had to deal with negative forces in his life. This gives a sense that Howard never needed to connect with anyone but his wife and son. In addition, when Ann goes to order the cake for her son’s birthday she cannot understand why the baker seems so disrespectful and distant. Ann wonders why the baker wouldn’t treat her son’s birthday as a special day.
“Stay here and listen to the nightmares of the sea” - Iron Maiden (Rime of the Ancient Mariner) In “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” Samuel Taylor Coleridge illustrates the story through the belief in God, and Christian faith. Throughout Mariner’s journey, many signified meanings interpret an important role such as, religious and natural symbolisms.
Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Wrong Actions The idea of people making wrong actions and having to pay for them afterwards is not new. The Christian religion centers itself around the confession of sins done by men or women. Luckily, they have the power to repent and do penance to receive God’s forgiveness. God sends people this power and people around the world mimic this cycle of crime, punishment, repentance, and reconciliation in court systems and other penal codes.
"The Seafarer" creates a storyline of a man who is "lost" at sea. There is a major reference to the concept of the sea and how it "captures" the soul and leaves a lonely feeling. The character is set to know the consequence of the sea but something keeps calling him back to it. "And yet my heart wanders away, My soul roams with sea, the whales' home, wandering to the widest corners of the world, returning ravenous with desire, Flying solitary, screaming, exciting me to the ocean, breaking oaths on the curve of a wave." (lines 58-64).
The Mariner began to see his own sinfulness and change his ways. As the Wedding-Guest listened to the story of the Mariner, the Mariner told him of...
In the poem “The Seafarer”, the author who remains anonymous, uses the journey across the open ocean to reveal the inner nature and struggles of the narrator. Throughout the poem, the sea constantly represents the spiritual journey that he has embarked on his entire life.
To the Romantics, the imagination was important. It was the core and foundation of everything they thought about, believed in, and even they way they perceived God itself. The leaders of the Romantic Movement were undoubtedly Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his close friend, William Wordsworth. Both were poets, and both wrote about the imagination. Wordsworth usually wrote about those close to nature, and therefore, in the minds of the Romantics, deeper into the imagination than the ordinary man. Coleridge, however, was to write about the supernatural, how nature extended past the depth of the rational mind.
Isolation can have many affects on how a person behaves, there mental stability and personality. Isolation is the state of being away from anyone or anything is society. While under this for a period of time it can effect a person's state of mind, such as talking to inanimate objects. This can also mean them finding love or friendship in animals that don't have a clue what the person means. One of the key factors of this theory is isolation; it can be both physical and emotional. Santiago struggles with physical isolation. It is defined as being alone and away from society, with no social contact. This is illustrated though the symbolism of dreams, actions, objects, events, and characters while Santiago is at sea. He not only has to deal with isolation, but also with keeping a connection with God to fill the empty void of no companion at sea. His pride and isolation become more apparent towards the end of the book. In The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, the main character Santiago shows great signs of psychological dysfunctional behavior.
In this poem there is much evidence that expresses his loneliness, solitude, and isolation to the rest of the world at that moment in his life.
...ort the reader into a spiritual journey of guilt, retribution, and rebirth as a symbol of the journey of Christianity. Expressing the inherent struggles of humanity for sin and redemption, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" allows the reader to suppose that supernatural situations are real. Coleridge uses supernatural events to bring to live the ideas he expresses in his work. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" clearly demonstrates the ideals of Christianity as salvation and the power of sympathetic imagination.