The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner - Original Writing
First, we set out from our homeland, Scotland. We sailed on southwards
and were picked up by dreadful wind, we found ourselves being
controlled by the wind and the sea. There was nothing we could do to
stop it, it had driven us to the cold south, were mist, fog and
treacherous seas all belong. Then from beneath the emerald green ice
grabbed the sides of our ship, we were stationary, unable to move. It
was quiet, then when we thought all was lost an albatross came and
flew over our ship and it made the ice crack and we sailed north again
so for many days we gave it food and played with the creature. Then
one awful day when the sun was setting I got my crossbow and did shoot
the albatross. The crew was so angry and cross with me that they
cursed me saying how I dare to have shoot the albatross. From then on
we lost our fortune and a great and terrible mist or fog came upon us
but just few days later the mist was gone and the crew were telling me
that it was a good thing to have killed the albatross. Then everything
was getting bad we were running very low on water until just yesterday
when it all was gone, oh the torture how there is water all around us
but not a drop to drink. Soon our lips were baked black, our throats
dry as a bone; surely we would all die soon. But then from out of
nowhere a ship sailed towards us, but then I realised how could it be
sailing when there was no wind? Then it came between us and the sun
(which lay on the east side) then it struck us it was a GHOST SHIP!
The sun was like it had been imprisoned. It neared and then I beheld
two figures on the ship and these two figures were the only people on
board. One was wearing a cloak and was like the most darkness I had
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Behind the people I could see dust higher as the highest house in our town. Then we go outside and we start running finally we realize we lost our family.
On the significance of fog “... Fog for instance. It almost always signals some sort of confusion” (75)
wall ended in a heap of dust and rubble, lay the grey water of the
I made my way quickly to the top deck again so that I could try to make it onto a lifeboat. The only people left on the ship were men, who were sitting on the floor, crying. I asked a man what was happening, and why everybody was crying.
Finally, after what seemed like hours of slowly sinking into a death hole, I felt my mom pulling me up by my arm. I was above earth. I had defeated the deadly earth. But I stood there confused, looking down at the ground, and back to my grandfather and mother. I wiped my tears. They were laughing at me. I looked down at my clothes and they were ruined. I looked even closer and saw that on my clothes was mud. I realized the “death hole” wasn 't in fact quick sand but it was just a not-so big mud puddle. I had slipped and fallen into a puddle of
Immediately, I angled my position and went for a dead sprint toward the water. I jumped off the cliff. I never felt anything like it; the trajectory had me flying through the air for longer than I expected. A surge of adrenaline pulsed through my body, bringing a new sense of life to me. The scorching heat went away as gravity pulled my body toward the water, bringing me a pleasant breeze through my fall. Then, I finally hit the water. I didn’t stick a solid landing, as I went head first into the water. I panicked and opened my eyes under the murky water, only to see nothing but dirt and sediments float around me. I kept sinking and saw a monstrous fish swim right in front of my face. At that very moment, my body went into overdrive, and I managed to project myself back up to the surface.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” seems like a simple story of a man lost at sea and defeating the odds, but if you hone in on the visual and aural details you see that it’s much more. The whole story revolves around the theme of religious transformation and Coleridge uses these visual and aural symbols to convey and drive home this theme.
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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.
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.
A lot of stories have a central theme or message that is shaped by the words surrounding it. The lesson could be depressing, funny, or serious. It never really matters, but a moral is a lesson to be learned from a story or event. The moral may be left to the hearer, reader or viewer to determine for themselves, or may be explicitly encapsulated in a maxim. The mariner is cursed with a lifelong penance after he killed the Albatross. He has to feel a pain in his chest that becomes unbearable until he sees a certain soul that is the right one to tell to. No matter what. In the long poem, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge has three lessons about human life and they are supernatural, pride, and suffering.
bottom of the lake which reminded me that I had to go, I had to get
could just see the island on which I had been staying, a strip of land
According to Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia, an allegory is described as a fictional literary narrative or artistic expression that conveys a symbolic meaning parallel to but distinct from, and more important than, the literal meaning. This is true in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is an allegory that symbolizes the inherent struggle of humans facing the ideas of sin and redemption. In writing this poem, Coleridge spent four months of sustained writing upon his purpose of supposing that supernatural situations are real. This purpose is seen clearly in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", which demonstrates salvation, and the power of sympathetic imagination. The story of the ancient mariner takes place on a sea voyage around the horn of Africa and through the Pacific Ocean to England, which Coleridge uses to symbolize the pass into the spirit world of guilt, retribution, and rebirth.