![]() Together with the mariner’s very personal and intense storytelling about his ordeal coupled with the gothic and passionate tone of the poem, the supernatural element is brought to the fore.With the exception of an omniscient narrator that intersperse minimally with the flow of the mariner’s tale, and a few lines uttered by minor characters such as the wedding guest or the spirits – the poem is entirely a personal “I” account of the mariner’s and that of his crewmates’ journey and what happened after he killed the Albatross, a sea bird which represents good fortune among seafarers. ![]() Like the Wedding Guest who is the first to speak a line in the first part of the poem by asking why the mariner detains him, the reader is immediately drawn by the eerie contrasts of the strange and solitary mariner with an “a glittering eye” (Coleridge Part 1, Stanza.1) and his sudden appearance within a very social occasion as a wedding.Ĭoleridge all throughout the poem sets a tone of extreme passions – dreadful fear, ecstatic revelations and preponderant guilt and sorrow. Coleridge used supernatural elements such as ghosts, spirits and angels to highlight the innermost experiences of the mariner, whose point of view is mainly used throughout the narrative.
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