The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner: Nature
Beginning of paper
"Look out Below!" - Craaack! About 15 Men and women turn their glances
toward the sky, and see a large, perhaps 100 feet, tree falling to the
ground. As the tree hits the solid earth, everything grows very quiet. All
look at the lumberjack, who killed this tree, and find him weeping in
sorrow. T ....
Middle of paper
.... These thoughts are quickly changed, though, as
Nature begins to start the penance leading towards forgiveness - "Water,
water, everywhere nor any drop to drink." When "the mariner begins to find
his salvation when he begins to look on the 'slimy things' as creatures of
strange beauty" (Fraser 203), he understands the Albatross was a symbol of
nature and he realized what he had done wrong. The mariner is forgiven
after sufficient penance - "We could not speak" - is performed by Nature.
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Word count: 635
Page count: 3 (approximately 250 words per page)
