Essay about The Wedding Guest in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

At no point in his tale he gives an explanation for his murderous act. Through the crime against nature, an idea of a crime against God is implemented. This idea progresses further more when the crew members of the Mariner remove the cross from his neck and replace it with the dead Albatross. In his abyss of estrangement from the world, the Mariner's actions seem purposeless and unwittingly performed. Little does he know when he bites his arm and sucks his blood and cries: "A sail! a sail!" (161). From his point of view, reality is barren and unaware - it is "As idle as a painted ship/ Upon painted ocean" (117-18). The world of sea is

As the ghost ship nears, a spell is cast upon the ship and all of the mariner's young crew fall dead. The mariner is able to see the souls of his crew leave their bodies and it is at this point which he begins to feel remorse and guilt. "and every soul, it passed me by, like the wiz of my cross-bow!" (Coleridge 222). the mariner now knows that it was his actions that caused this and must take accountability for what he has done. Coleridge's use of the word "bow" in this quote is very important. It shows that now he does feel remorse for killing the bird because he feels it was as if his own bow killed those men. As the mariner begins to accept all f this information, he begins to realize that this is not his home. This is the home of nature and because he is a guest on these waters, he should appreciate it. "the many men, so beautiful! And they all dead and lie: and a thousand slimy things lived on; and so did I." (Coleridge 236). Now that the mariner has taken responsibility for his actions, he looks to God for forgiveness. Through prayer, he tries to ask for forgiveness but knows that in order to reach it, he must first repent. "I looked to heaven, and tried to pray; but or ever a prayer had gusht, a wicked whisper came, and made my heart dry as dust." (Coleridge 244).

When looking into the water he is able to see a reflection of himself and through that image he is able to reconnect to his inner self and look back at what his original plan was. When he sees himself he is reminded of the spiritual muttering “om” and that single word brings him solace and peace. He was able to find his Self once again and continue his journey to enlightenment.

The Mariner’s lifelong penance is to relay his story and message throughout the lands to the various individuals he holds a calling towards. The Mariner can only relieve his frequents bouts of extreme agony and guilt from his past by narrating his story and lesson to others, bidding them not to make the same mistake he did. Initially, the listener is reluctant to hear the Mariner’s tale, eager to get to the wedding that is about to begin. However, the listener is somehow drawn to the Mariner and yields to his tale. He becomes enchanted, and by the tale’s end, the listener is left, shocked, speechless, and in awe. He gains a new perspective of the world, and the poem ends with the words, “He [the listener] went like one that hath been stunned / And is of sense forlorn; / A sadder and a wiser man, / He rose the morrow morn.”

An author on Raven Talk.com writes that, “we have lost our reverence and respect for Nature and for life,” (Raymond), and the Mariner demonstrates that lack of respect. It is then that he watches the animals around him, and discovers that he has a respect for them and life in general. He finally realizes that his action of killing the Albatross was a mistake, and the natural world immediately responds by picking up the wind to take him

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.

He shows no regret or shame as it falls out of the sky, along with no explanation for his disgusting doing. The Mariner continues to tell his story as if he hadn’t known what horrible thing he had done. Later the spirit of the Albatross would come back and avenge its death by cursing the mariner and his crew. After all his crew members have died is when he starts to appear sorrowful and begins to pray not for help, but for God to take him also. At this point of the story, the fate of the mariner lies in the hands of the spirits. Miraculously, he makes it back to his home country and is acknowledged by a Hermit who helps him with his

He bade me look into the smoke of the fire and see—I saw and told what I saw. It was what I have always seen—a river, and, beyond it, a great Dead Place and in it the gods walking. I have always thought about that. His eyes were stern when I told him he was no longer my father but a priest. He said, 'This is a strong dream.'"

Finally he kill the poor bird, who never know anything. He kill it without guilt, and he don’t care if the Albatross was dying whatever the ship can’t move cause bird or not he just try to kill it. If the Albatross is main cause all of thing he is right decision but if he not and kill the poor bird that not have much effect to him. The Albatross is just animal it not like human if it die is not problem not as killing human, That all I believe why he kill the Albatross in the last of poem he said, “He prayeth best, who loveth best. All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.” That mean all of life no matter big or small is important. This show the first time he is not care life of Albatross and he

As a result, he decides to repent in order to go to heaven. The conflict is Everyman is about to die but has not thought about God his entire life. He has been so engulfed in his goods that he has been oblivious to understand that life is not his to keep. Death finally arrives and he is finally violently shaken awake.

In the poem the next message is that you should have religious experiences before you go and party. In the poem

He is at his breaking point in his trials and simply needs to be helped, which is why his focus changed from always being about himself to having his focus on God. The sailor states in line 115 that “fate is stronger and God mightier than any man’s mind.” He hit a turning point in his life and through his sorrows in which he is able to fully recognize the fulfilling prosperity of a life with God. The wording changed as well since there was no longer I, me, or my. It became more about we, us, and you.

He illustrates his belief that he does not need the good luck of the Albatross. He decides to severe his bonds with the universal cycle of life and love. Following the execution of the Albatross, the Mariner’s luck suddenly changes. He experiences the punishment that comes with the moral error of killing the Albatross. The punishment is isolation and alienation from everything but himself. Thereafter, the "Nightmare," the life in death, kills his crew. He is lost at sea, left alone in the night to suffer, and he has detached from his natural cycle. The Mariner proclaims his misery when he says, "Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! / And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony". To the Mariner, nature has become foreign. The execution of the Albatross causes physical and spiritual decay.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, as a product of its culturally inscribed author, presents a confused Unitarian world view consistent with that of the Romantic Movement of its time. It attempts to exemplify this view within an unpredictable and often mysterious universe, and by rebuking the hegemonic ideologies held by the text’s cultural antagonists, seeks to grant the awareness of an often unreasonable world populated by its reader’s passionate persona.

tale of sin and forgiveness by God to a man referred to as the "Wedding Guest."