"Ancient Mariner"

"...or if I should come back ... as the 'Ancient Mariner' "(Shelley, 6).

The "Ancient Mariner'"is an allusion to the poem "Rime of the Ancient Mariner", written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1798. The poem tells the tale of an unlucky mariner. After the mariner killed an albatross, his voyage is surrounded by destruction. The theme of this poem is that all things on earth are beautiful and important.


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