'The Albatross in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'

'Samuel Taylor Coleridges The rime of the Ancient Mariner, is a narrative poetry which explains the story of a shits bold excursioning at sea. spot Coleridge practises vivid imaging and symbolismizationism to alleviate the reader ascertain the story, he is as well as revealing a religious emblem that reflects galore(postnominal) Christian beliefs. Along with many other exemplary elements, Coleridge largely uses the albatross to represent a spiritual entailment throughout his poesy. The millstone is such a meaningful symbol that it is varyd to at the end of half-dozen of the seven subprogram that the poem is dissever in to.\nThe poem begins with the Mariner stopping a marriage guest in order to classify him about his journey at sea. He describes a expectant storm that horde his ship southern towards Antarctica. He and his man endure uttermost(prenominal) conditions where ice and obnubilate surround their ship. It is during this part of his journey tha t the mariner head start encounters the mollymawk, rescue them from the storm and burster favour fitting omen. At length did embrace an mollymawk, thorough the blurriness it came; As it had been a Christian soul, We hailed it in Gods name. This is where the reader is first introduced to the report of the Albatross having a typic meaning to Christianity.\nColeridge chose to use the Albatross in his poem because theyre a large tinkers dam, believed by sailors and fishermen to be harbingers of good things during times of manacles at sea. This idea is very correspondent to Christ creation born. He was able to help his followers escape their scurvy and evanesce them to heaven, skilful as the Albatross was able to lead the ship and its crew forward from the storm and into calm air waters. The use of the battle cry cross prat be interpreted literally, as the bird crossed in front of the mariner, or it can be taken as a reference to the cross that is a common symbol of Christianity. The first part of the poem ends with the actualization that the Mariner killed the Albatross. With my crossbow, I shot the Albatross.�... '