Symbolism is a literary device that plays a big part in making a piece of poetry more interesting, well, it at least helps to catch the reader's attention. Samuel Coleridge uses this kind of representation in, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner". This poem is about an Ancient Mariner who stops a wedding guest on his way to a wedding reception with two friends. As the guest tries to get away from the Ancient Mariner, he pressures him to listen to his tale. In “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, the sun and moon are emblems of two sides of God; the sun stands for the angry side and the moon stands for the kind side of Him. With everything taken into account, the moon appears several times, and generally, "better" things occur during the night,
