Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Coleridge presents us with a poem with a host of possible interpretations, heavily laden with symbolism and moral sentiment. Since The Rime represents one of the romanticism period’s finest poems, it deals with relationship of man and nature. In it, we have a colorful tale of a mariner who sins and his eventual redemption at the mercy of nature. There are many Christian references throughout the poem, and, while too many symbols exist in this vein to do them justice here, we can use some of them to illustrate Coleridge’s double parallel of the Albatross and Mariner to the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.We see both the Albatross and the Mariner used as a parallel to the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, albeit in different ways not totally elucidated in their meaning by Coleridge. We first are lead to believe that the Albatross, a pure and good natural omen for t
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