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Rhyming Of The Ancient Mariner
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(Three messages provided out of the reading, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Coleridge.)

Imagine doing a deed so terrible that the rest of your life was determined by that one singular moment. Most people would imagine the initial moment to be like killing someone, destroying lives, or something of that scenarios. People wouldn’t imagine the defining moment in their life to be killing a bird. “...in a piece that cries out for simplicity and gets digital distraction instead.” (Collins-Hughes) This is the one moment that determines the Mariner’s life; his decision to kill an albatross. While most people wouldn’t think this was a big deal, he blames that action for the death of his crew, and his lifestyle forced to wander
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The mariner obviously feels responsible for the death of his crew and apparently can’t come to terms with that fact. Not many people could. But the mariner then blames his fate on that deed.“...Coleridge's tale is an excellent example of how to make a moving confession of an environmental misdeed.” (Chianese) The mariner has a few words himself, about how it feels to carry this burden with him throughout the rest of his life. “Since then… the agony returns, and till my ghastly tale is told, this heart within me burns.” (Line 583) This is the fate that the mariner feels is his, it helps relieve his overall misery over all the pain and suffering and death he …show more content…
One of them being that every action has it’s consequences. Another being, guilt has a strange effect on the human psyche. The final message is that something that one person does can have an affect on another person who is totally unrelated to the issue. “As to the question of guilt, a highly regarded modern measure of depression could have based its findings on Coleridge's or his mariner's condition…” (White) this helps people gain a better understanding of what exactly these actions can do. As well as providing an indepth look at how Coleridge views these particular

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