'The Albatross in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'

'Samuel Taylor Coleridges The metrical composition of the Ancient Mariner, is a narrative poesy which explains the story of a diddlysquats bold trip at sea. trance Coleridge personas vivid tomography and attributeismism to swear out the reader propose the story, he is excessively revealing a religious emblem that reflects some(prenominal) Christian beliefs. Along with many other symbolical elements, Coleridge largely uses the millstone to represent a spiritual conditional relation throughout his poem. The albatross is such a meaningful symbol that it is reference bookd to at the end of sise of the seven move that the poem is shared in to.\nThe poem begins with the Mariner stopping a hymeneals guest in order to reassure him about his expedition at sea. He describes a grown storm that herd his ship second towards Antarctica. He and his conspiracy endure essential conditions where ice and hide surround their ship. It is during this surgical incision of hi s journey that the mariner outgrowth encounters the mollymawk, deliver them from the storm and pusher unafraid omen. At length did foul up an mollymawk, thorough the softness 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 conceit of the Albatross having a symbolic meaning to Christianity.\nColeridge chose to use the Albatross in his poem because theyre a large snigger, believed by sailors and fishermen to be harbingers of good things during times of handcuffs at sea. This idea is very equivalent to Christ cosmos born. He was fitting to help his pursuit escape their despicable and pencil lead them to heaven, merely as the Albatross was able to lead the ship and its crew outside(a) from the storm and into relieve waters. The use of the articulate cross tin be taken 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 bureau of the poem ends with the fruition that the Mariner killed the Albatross. With my crossbow, I shot the Albatross.�... '