Rime Of The Ancient Mariner Essay

Poetry is a means of human expression that exists because there are readers and writers who are involved and engaged in human experience.
This essay will discuss the mariners experience about creation of god and his expressions towards it.
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge reveals the importance of God’s creations and the appreciation individual ought to have for them, no matter how small or great. In this piece, it is shown that how the mariner changes from seeing nature as an irritating thing that gets in the way of sailing, to seeing it as an aspect of life worth treasuring. The Albatross is known as a symbol of good luck to mariners and brings favorable weather conditions to mariners. The mariner’s shoots the Albatross on his journey (which was described as “a holy thing, hailed in God’s name") which brings bad luck to the group’s journey. “With my cross-bow I shot the Albatross” The killing of the Albatross ends up troubling the mariner's group with death and cursing himself with suffering …show more content…
When the mariner finished telling his story to the wedding guest, he proclaims, “Farewell, farewell! but this I tell
 to thee, thou Wedding-Guest!
 He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. “He prayeth best, who loveth best
 all things both great and small;
 for the dear God who loveth us,
 He made and loveth all” explaining that a man who loves God and all of God’s creations, will have a better life than a man who doesn’t. The mariner is still carrying the guilt he feels from killing the Albatross and wishes he had more respect for nature in the past so that he wouldn’t feel so regretful and guilty for his actions. The main message the mariner is trying to convey to the wedding guest is to appreciate God and his creations because everyone is creations of