Examples Of Justice In The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

The symbolism in the “Rhyme of the ancient mariner” is said to be an impossible representation of the Christian story of reconciliation from sin, redemption and forgiveness for that sin, but the symbolism in this poem clearly contradicts those views. The poem is one of a great sin committed against nature and the supernatural - being God - and how the wrong doer was redeemed from that sin and his journey into realigning what he had done. The Mariner was punished for his sin by the supernatural and forces of nature while he was glorified by his crew mates for his skill that was shown in killing the albatross with a crossbow. This is often true in Biblical stories and modern day where one is glorified for earthly talents and is given fame, but what they are famous for contradicts God and his law. Other aspects of Christianity are embedded in this poem as well that are easily overlooked like when the Mariner prays to some force he does not know. He is guilty for his transgression and knows what he has done is wrong although the sin was committed with ill will not intended. Lastly this poem displays a value important to Christianity, but also to all other ideologies and the is the topic of justice for crimes committed and the Christian aspect of thats once justice is served salvation is needed and redemption takes place. All of these values presented by symbolism throughout this poem all point toward the idea that the story of the Mariner was meant to serve as an example of the

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

The Mariner’s tale suggests a larger lesson about human life, expressing that humans are not superior to the rest of Creation and nature. Humans and all other life are equal inhabitants on planet Earth and must therefore treat each other with respect

The second punishment was more of a physiologic punishment placed upon the Ancient Mariner instead of a physical one. Life and death soon appear and play a game of chance to determine the fortune of the Mariner and his crew. “the game is done, I’ve won.” (43). Winning the game apparently means survival as death takes the lives of the two hundred men aboard the ship. Life in death nonetheless blesses the Mariner with eternal life. This had become his punishment because the Mariner could no longer pray, sleep, and every day must live with the agonizing loss of his men aboard his now forsaken ship. “Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony.” (236-39). It is clear that the Ancient Mariner is being punished by the divine. In the same way the Mariner killed the Albatross the spiritual forces are in a way killing him. The Albatross is dead and now the Ancient Mariner is metaphorically dead also. This is apparent as the Mariner has been isolated in the middle of the ocean where everything all around him is the same and lifeless. Just as if he were to be dead and buried in the ground, there would be dirt to his left and to his right without a single soul to keep him company. The only way for the Mariner to ease his pain is

“The Seafarer” uses a change in tone in its second half in order to compare the plight of the world and its suffering and the eternal bliss of heaven. The tools that the narrator uses so that the reader can interpret the poem are the vague descriptions of the sorrow and fear that the narrator has found in his world and its comparison to the specificity with which he claims his hopes for heaven and the godly characteristics one must have in order to make it to that joyful place. Finally, the different associations with images like the sea and the comparison to very specific images that only declare one association. To the narrator in “The Seafarer”, the world is a very confusing, painful, and terrifying place where the material desires, the temporary items in earthly life, are of the utmost importance to the men who live there. He has a hope for something more, for a place full of joy.

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.

After the crew was put through a long drought with no wind, the Mariner finally spotted another ship. However, this was not just an ordinary ship; it was a ghost ship with spirits coming to kill the crew. As the crew members died, “Each turned his face with a ghastly pang, / And cursed me with his eye” (Coleridge). The Mariner is cursed by each and everyone of the crew members before they die. Although this punishment seems to be fairly mild,

The concept of sin and atonement are the allegories that we learn about in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; we learn that with sin comes the reprimand of a supernatural figure; however the prejudice one faces helps lead to the “forgiveness” the Mariner learns to find within himself. “The poem contains riot only a mysterious or supernatural element, which

A decision that can never be undone, ever. The albatross may have fell off the mariner’s neck into the ocean and the curse therefore may have been expiated, however the mariner is still afflicted with penance of having to retell his story for all of eternity. The wedding guest he tells this story to, is particularly affected. It is said at the very end of the poem, “He went like one that hath been stunned. And is sense of forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.

Have you ever done something so bad that you thought you would be punished for the rest of your life? Well that is what Mariner thought. The old Mariner thought that what he had done to begin with wasn’t much of a crime, until it started to alter the nature and the life around him. He is tested in this story his faith, and realizes how powerful nature really can be, especially when angry. This text is a good example of how nature controls everything, and how man is so little verse it. Three messages conclude what the story Mariner , written by Samuel Coleridge is about, and what it means. The physicality of the natural world, the spirituality of the natural

The Marinere’s negative view of the sea snakes are an extension of his perception in regards to his unfavorable situation. The Mariner’s first view of the sea snakes is one filled with contempt, which is carried by his overall feelings of despair and separation. The beginning of section four of “The Rime of The Ancyent Marinere” proceeds the death of the crew. The Mariner relates how he is alone and his soul is in agony (IV, 224-227). He furthers his separation from the beings around describing the dead men that lay on the deck as beautiful (IV, 228-229). The living sea snakes as a “million million slimy things,” and then himself as simply living with them without a secondary descriptor (IV, 229-231). His lack of description for himself is another separation between the Marinere and his surrounds; the cause of his worsening outlook and perception of his situation.

He rose the morrow morn” (622-625) and therefore the sublime. This is due to the misfortune in the story is solely occurring to the Mariner; meanwhile the guest is safe and distanced from its pain.

In the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the idea that experiences in our lives are helping us constantly learn is expressed. The old man who is telling of this story, has lived his life and

The Mariner undergoes several stages of punishment after he kills the albatross. In the first stage, he experiences extreme thirst restricting his ability to speak, this punishment is shared with the crew. This causes them to hang the Albatross around his neck as a reminder for his sin. This shows are actions are not only affect us but those around us. In order for us to have free will we must have punishments for immoral actions to keep us balanced. We are naturally encouraged to be good and do good. The Mariner was free to shoot the Albatross, but not without consequence. This was the start of retribution.

The crew is forgiven for their treatment of the Marinere after they return him to their home country (VI. 472). The crew’s unreliable support of the Marinere in his choice to shoot the Albatross is their mistreatment of him. They changed their minds with the change of the wind. “And it would work ‘em woe;/ For all averr’d, I had killed the bird/ That made the Breeze to blow,” (II. 90-92). They switched their tune only a few lines down, “Twas right, said they, such birds to slay/ That bring the fog and mist” (II. 97-98), only to end up again resenting the Marinere’s action, and forcing him to wear the Albatross (II. 138).