The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere

This week's poem was a poem that I really enjoyed because it was more of a narrative. It tells the story of a mariner that tells the tale of his journey to a guest at a wedding. When reading the poem, one can vividly picture different scenes. The poem can also be seen as a lesson not only for the characters in the narrative but also the readers. To clarify, the poem follows the adventure of the mariner as he goes through trials and tribulations until he is free in the end. But in the process of being free, he lost all of the men on the ship that was with him. This shows that he must suffer before he can be saved.  Readers can take this lesson away from the poem and see it in their own lives because it is very true. As a person goes through life, everyone will have to endure some kind of suffering or else they would not be human.

Additionally, the whole idea of suffering in the poem is related to the story of Jesus Christ. Jesus had to suffer for us on the cross and died because of our sins. Eventually, he was born again. Metaphorically, the mariner kind of goes through the same thing. He suffers after he shoots the albatross with having to suffer through thirst and his crew members dying. In the end he realizes what he has done and starts to have a more positive outlook. For example, the slimy things in the water become more beautiful to him. At the beginning of the poem, he saw them as just ugly slimy creatures. In the end, he sees their true beauty and blesses them. As he is praying the albatross falls from his neck and so does his guilt. Depending on a person's interpretation, the mariner is born again at this point and is free. This is how I came to interpret the poem.