The Mariner Passage Analysis
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The Mariner's story is metaphorical of a person trying to acheive salvation for he sins by killing the albatross and must act on atonement to mend what he has done. In reality, when one commits a sin they must redeem themselves or they will continue to be punished and be seperated from God. The albatross, like Christ, could bring the sailors and the ancient mariner to salvation.In the poem, the mariner is being punished by a spirit from the ice world who loved the albatross and wants to avenge it. "The Spirit who bideth by himself in the land of mist and snow, He loved the bird that loved the man who shot him with his bow." (Paragraph 5, Line 403) The spirit continually gives him and the sailors crueler punishments. At first, he and the sailors