Albatross

was published where one of the only aspects that people could agree upon was that it was a strange tale. An initial purpose of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” though, was to persuade people to follow God. After the Mariner proclaims “I shot the ALBATROSS,” in line 82, he and the crew endure many terrible, supernatural events (Coleridge). When it came out, readers would have been influenced to not act as the Mariner did because God punishes him for killing the bird throughout the poem. The…

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