nt sea. (Coleridge, 8)
In case we were in any doubt, the poet's side notes identify this as the Pacific; the world of the age of faith has already burst its bounds.
Moreover, the spiritual entities in the "Rime" do not act independently on their own, as expressions of the old immanent God; instead, they act in and through living beings, first the Albatross, whose death brought the Mariner to his crisis, then the sea-snakes that begin his surmounting of it:
Sure my kind saint took pity on me,
From that point he begins his return to the world of life, and it is precisely at the point where he reaches out in love to the living world. "Cole
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