Essay Sample on Mariner's Voyage: The Wedding Guest's Unexpected Reaction

Introduction

The poem is relating to the sailor's experience that has come back from the voyage of the deep sea. There is a man on his way to the wedding that mariner stops and starts narrating a story to the man. The reaction of the wedding guest is seen making some changes from impatience to anxiety as the story of mariner continues (Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 15).

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The tale of the mariner begins when his ship is starting a journey. The fact that the start of the trip had a good intention, the boat arrives at the Antarctic waters after being driven south by a massive storm. The ship gets stuck on the way, and albatross exists to pull the boat out of the ice jam. It is unfortunate that mariner is seen shooting the bird even though the crew in the ship is praising albatross (Thiebot, Jean-Baptiste, et al. 1300).

Mariner is then blamed, and the crew becomes angry why he kills the bird while they believe that albatross bring the south wind that helps them to move out of the Antarctic. Suddenly, as the weather turns to be warmer and the mist is disappearing, the sailor's stops becoming angry to the mariner and instead praises him that he did a good thing by killing the bird.

Wrath of spirits arises and starts pursuing the ship again to the land of snow and mist. The sailors then start realizing that they made a great mistake of praising the crime act made by the mariner. The south wind is now leading the ship to the waters which are uncharted near the equator where the ship is becalmed. The sailors become thirsty and start blaming mariner again. Mariner is then forced by the crew to put on the dead albatross around his neck. This is to show the sign of regret and the burden of suffering from killing the bird (Thiebot, Jean-Baptiste, et al. 1298).

A ghostly action is experienced ion the ship as the happiness of the sailors diminishes. The ship is seen sailing without the wind. The lives of the sailors and mariners are gambled with the dice of the Death and Life-in-Death. After that occurrence of roll and dice, the sailors' unfortunately start to die one by one apart from a mariner who survives.

Mariner then starts blessing the sea creatures such as the snake and sees their beauty. As mariner intends to start praying, the albatross moves from his neck and falls. The good spirits which possessed the bodies of the sailors arises and starts helping the ship to move. The two souls are heard by mariner discussing his penance, and then mariner comes to realize that the ship is being steered supernaturally. And finally, mariner sees his homeland, but still, he doubts whether it just a hallucination or not (Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 20).

The remains of the ship which are rotten sinks only mariner left behind. The ship of the mariner sinks and the hermit comes to rescue mariner with a pilot in a boat with his boy. Mariner is thought to be dead when he is pulled from the water. They become shocked when they see mariner opening his mouth. As hermit starts to pray, the mariner is picking the oars to row the boat. The boy of the pilot becomes crazy and starting thinking that mariner is a devil that can row the bought.

Finally, mariner finishes with an exciting story lesson that the greatest joy in life is a prayer which comes from all God's creation. Therefore, mariner continues with his story to another person who finds willing to hear the story. He leaves the wedding guest "a sadder and a wise man." (Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 28).

Works Cited

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834)." Poetry Foundation (2015).Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems. Alma Books, 2018.

Thiebot, Jean-Baptiste, et al. "The rime of the modern mariner: evidence for the capture of yellow-nosed albatross from Amsterdam Island in Indian Ocean longline fisheries." Polar Biology 38.8 (2015): 1297-1300.