The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Theme Analysis One of the major themes of the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Taylor Coleridge is isolation, especially isolation from Christ. The first sense of isolation in the poem is when the wedding guest is stopped by the Mariner outside of the church. The wedding guest is completely cut off from everyone at the wedding. The second depiction of isolation is during the Mariner’s story, his ship is blown into the Arctic and there is not a single living thing around. Eventually, however, an albatross flies by and the crew, “as if it had been a Christian soul…, hailed [the albatross] in God’s name,” which shows that the bird is a symbol for God, and when the Mariner kills the albatross with his crossbow,
