Emotion: when the Mariner
killed the Albatross for no reason and then regretted his
act.
Imagination: there are
many imaginative elements in the story, for example there is the description of life and
death, how the crew was killed, the whole poem is imagined if you
want.
Intuition: the Mariner
killed the Albatross for no reason and some sailors at first believed it was wrong to
do. And their intuition was right, another aspect is if you look at it from a
“self-reliance” point of view; as a romantic poem they emphasize the individual and the
intuition of thyself.
Freedom:
when the Mariner identified with nature the Albatross came down from his shoulder which
can be seen as an act of freedom, the Mariner was free
now.
Nature’s beauty: hmmm…
where do I start with this one! Will the Albatross represented nature and the Mariner
shot him and that is why the Mariner was punished because he didn’t appreciate nature,
but the Mariner complimented nature and its beauty and he was somehow forgiven because
of it. Another thing is the description of “Death” it is a woman, red lips, pretty… etc
it is to emphasize that even in the scariest things in nature you have beauty in
them.
Personal experience:
well… the whole poem is about the personal experience of the Mariner, it is because the
Mariner learned his “own lesson” he is now telling his tale across the seas and so that
element can be basically be seen there.
The
Primitive: in a colonial reading of the poem you can see that the
Albatross represented the natives who were helpless against the guns of the sailors who
were more advanced, and because they lived in nature they were somehow defeated by the
sailors and they lost the Albatross.
The
Exotic: Coleridge wrote the part that was about the extraordinary and the
exotic and the wonders of nature and exotic events so the whole poem is somewhat
exotic.
Hope I was
helpful.
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