Ancient Mariner Theme

All events contribute to other events. Regular actions to regular rewards, and grand actions to grand rewards. These results are one of the few things that make a bold action so worth the risk. The same notion goes for the protagonists of Theodore Taylor’s short story, “Rogue Wave”. Many people—when faced with a destructive wave, a capsized boat, and a sibling imprisoned in a sinking vessel—would most likely lose hope and give in to their doomed fate. But Scoot and Sully, the heroines of the short story, refused to give up. In the descending boat, Scoot strove to break through the skylight window, even though it seemed fruitless. To escape, it took several tries, since “...the outside [seemed bent] on resist[ing] and she had to resurface [over and over]...” (p. 14; lines 361-362) Finally, Scoot “...pushed with all her strength, and this time, the window

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, it was written in the late 1700s. The poem’s setting starts during a wedding, an old mariner stops one of the wedding guests from going into the party to tell him a story. The mariner’s story takes place in a ship where he killed an albatross and everything started to go wrong for him and his crew. When the mariner’s story is ending he says that he has a pain to tell people about his story, this is why he stopped the wedding guest to tell him his story. The wedding guest decides not to go to the party because he became upset, he is now a “sadder” but “wiser” man. Coleridge uses many literary elements to make the story come together such as similes, personification, symbolism

In another case, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” tells a story about an old sailor, the Mariner, and his long and difficult journey across the ocean. The Mariner stops a man going into a wedding, who is called the Wedding-Guest, and insists on telling him his tale. In the beginning of the Mariner’s journey, his ship gets stuck in a never ending field of ice and fog. They have no way of moving, but then,

An enormous wave crashes into your boat nearly tipping it. The howling wind tosses the boat from side to side. Lightning strikes the stern sending you into darkness. The next morning you wake up to a calm, quiet sea ready for smooth sailing. Somedays the water is perfectly still making for easy travel, yet other days you have to endure a restless, unforgiving sea. This is how the road of life is perceived. The seas my father has conquered has taught me that life isn’t always smooth sailing.

The life in the ship is harsh and full of struggles which represent the typical life experience of human being.

In the “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, Samuel Taylor Coleridge introduces an elderly sailor, whom of which is also referred to as the Ancient Mariner. In the poem, the Mariner narrates his tale of sorrow to a wedding guest. The story consists of the mariner setting out at sea with two hundred men. They come across an albatross, which is viewed as good luck, and the Mariner shoots it dead. In the event of his spiteful actions, he and his crew are haunted by Biblical allusions; all of which is created to further deepen the meaning of the poem.

After surviving a shipwreck and being stuck on a ten-foot dingy in the cold January waters with three other men as they endure two days on the open sea. The short story by Stephen Crane The Open Boat tells the journey through the narrative's point of view of man vs nature and the potent relations, he retains with the three other passengers as they are forced to work together to survive. The narrative’s survival shows the compassion he gains of his comrades and new life that is embraced through a mighty recovery after his life is saved.

home can be hard, but imagine what it would be like if it was to a harsh sea or

We hear only tales of its slow stricken madness. Most often it’s a fisherman, who falsely lulled by the ocean’s gentle rhythm, forgets the ravenous spirits lurking below. He wakes up on a sandy shore and sees he’s alone--his small ship decimated by the shimmering waters he knew for decades.

When people go on cruise trips, they intend to enjoy their time off to experience the sights and sounds of the open sea. In Annie Dillard’s Mornings Like This, she includes in her collection of found poems a poem that instills a similar sense of imagery that one would experience by the ocean. Her found poem, called “The Pathfinder of the Seas,” includes a variety of words and sentences that relate to sailing in the sea. She extracted them from other literature related to scientific research of the sky and the sea. The author brings together these distinct elements and structures them in a poem. By giving them a new home, she subsequently gives the work a new meaning. Dillard aims for the reader to find a new perspective on life through the

It’s easy to tell that the ocean is a mysterious and isolating place from all of the tragic tales we hear from sailors both real and fictional. Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and an anonymous author’s “The Seafarer” are quite similar in that they both revolve around said tragic tales told by sailors. However, there seem to be more commonalities between their themes, tones, and messages rather than their seaward-bound settings. But before we can discuss these similar settings and deeper themes, we have to tackle their origins.

Coleridge masterfully pushes the boundaries of what is actually living and the supernatural, by granting life to the inanimate and death to the animate. Shortly, after the death of the Albatross the extraordinary bad luck of the sailors changes for the better, and they now capable of navigating themselves out of the treacherous ice caps towards the equator. Once at the equator the men are now under new drastic circumstances, while on calm seas, they are completely out of drinking water. Coleridge continues to personify the sea, “ The very deep did rot: O Christ!/… / Upon the slimy sea./ About, about, in reel and rout / The death-fires danced at night;”(Lines 123, 126-128). Coleridge details the ocean and the living creatures that live inside, and in doing so he is

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the perfect piece to extract a tragic figure from because of the depth of the story; having a quest, multiple downfalls, and abstract virtues. The Mariner goes out on a voyage with his ship crew but then is faced with disaster, prompted by the killing of the guiding Albatros. From that moment on, the ship was cursed and the sailors blamed the Mariner for all the misfortune. Long story short, Life-in-Death and Death, gamble for the lives of the sailors and the Mariner is the only

The sun is recognised as an essential element of life and a source of physical life, however in the Rime of the Ancient Mariner this belief is overturned as the sun begins to kill as it dehydrates the crew, here the laws of nature are being overpowered and contradicted by supernatural laws. Coleridge uses death-in-life here to demonstrate how gothic literature allows us to look beyond conventional and traditional beliefs, to see the world through a different frame of mind that we wouldn’t otherwise have recognised. In the Rime of the Ancient Mariner life and death begin to collapse into one as death comes into life in a way that is unnatural, the crew are dying of thirst and everything around them is rotting they see a ship approaching them, this provides a moment of hope. Upon the ship is the image of death and life-in-death who are playing for the Mariner’s soul, “The naked hulk alongside came, And the twain were casting dice; "The game is done! I've won! I've

The poem Rime of the Ancient Mariner was written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In this poem, an old man tells a young boy of a story, that ultimately affects the little boy’s view of life. Because of the story that is told, the little boy rethinks his life decisions and his eyes are opened. What could have caused this change in someone so young? Our experiences throughout life help us continually learn, the albatross in the story produces a message, and the fact that God made and loves us all are three messages that can be taken from this dark poem.