While many seem to believe that nature is nothing but a form of entertainment for us humans, there are others who believe otherwise. People in the Romantic Era all embraced nature and it’s importance to the world and to us. Many poets and writers often expressed it in their writings. For example, in the story, “The Rime of an Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, he intends to show to his audience that nature is an important ally of humanity, by telling a story of a sailor having extremely bad luck after harming an element of nature. The Romantic Era did not focus on love or anything mushy of that sort. During the Romantic Era, writers focused more on nature than usual in their works. People decided they wanted a change and embraced
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Nature has never been very fond of this trait we have. In the story, the shipmates throw the whole guilt on the ancient mariner by hanging the dead Albatross around the mariner’s neck after being stuck for so long (Coleridge 586). As a result, every one of the shipmates ended up dead. Coleridge explains that the shipmates had seen a ship coming their way. They automatically assumed it was a ghost ship due to the fact that there was no wind flowing or moving waves for a ship to be moving in their direction. Once the ship got closer to them, they saw that the ship was boney and realized it was a skeleton ship and they were right. The ancient mariner was soon able to see that the ones on the ship were none other than Life and Death. Once they arrived, they began to gamble on what they would do. The Mariner’s life, the death of the shipmates had already been decided. Therefore they killed everyone on the ship except the ancient Mariner (Coleridge 589). The shipmates had tried to take the blame off themselves after they became accomplices. Since the mariner was the only one to blame, he was the one who they needed to decide on his punishment. Coleridge portrays that the ancient mariner was sentenced to a punishment worse than death and that’s why they left him alive. He later goes on to tell that the mariner has to explain his story to others who need the lesson taught to them until he has paid back for his murder, if
Nature has never been very fond of this trait we have. In the story, the shipmates throw the whole guilt on the ancient mariner by hanging the dead Albatross around the mariner’s neck after being stuck for so long (Coleridge 586). As a result, every one of the shipmates ended up dead. Coleridge explains that the shipmates had seen a ship coming their way. They automatically assumed it was a ghost ship due to the fact that there was no wind flowing or moving waves for a ship to be moving in their direction. Once the ship got closer to them, they saw that the ship was boney and realized it was a skeleton ship and they were right. The ancient mariner was soon able to see that the ones on the ship were none other than Life and Death. Once they arrived, they began to gamble on what they would do. The Mariner’s life, the death of the shipmates had already been decided. Therefore they killed everyone on the ship except the ancient Mariner (Coleridge 589). The shipmates had tried to take the blame off themselves after they became accomplices. Since the mariner was the only one to blame, he was the one who they needed to decide on his punishment. Coleridge portrays that the ancient mariner was sentenced to a punishment worse than death and that’s why they left him alive. He later goes on to tell that the mariner has to explain his story to others who need the lesson taught to them until he has paid back for his murder, if