"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
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In Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," a sense of mystery is created from the beginning by the introduction of the Mariner and the way he tells his story to the Wedding Guest, with the events of the voyage told in flashback. The story told by the Mariner is the story of his own harrowing experience brought about because of the death of an albatross. The story shows how the crew was punished because they did not heed the portents of the sea and because they placed their lives above that of a protected creature, the bird that serves as an omen and so that has a more direct connection with the universe than do human beings. The killing of this bird is a crime, and much of the poem is then taken up with the expiation of that crime by the suffering Mariner and his crew. The Mariner tells his story to a Wedding Guest, and the fact that he chooses t
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