“The Rime of theAncient Mariner” is the greatest achievement of S.T Coleridge. The whole story of the poem is based on the theme of crime committed
by a mariner and the punishment which he had to undergo after the act of crime.
In fact, the poem is an allegory of guilt and regeneration.
"Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is a Poem of Crime and Punishment:
As we go through the
poem we find that the Ancient Mariner wantonly killed the Albatross, which was
a bird of good omen, and which signifies the violation of the sanctified
relations of the host ad guest. It is a symbolic representation of the
essential frivolity of many crimes against humanity and the ordered system of
the world.
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The Mariner’s two
hundred shipmates partake his guilt because they approve of his misdeed by
saying that the Mariner was right to kill the Albatross which brought fog and
mist. Thus the whole crew including the Mariner was guilty to be punished. So the ship is suddenly becalmed. The sun
shone directly overhead. Their supply of drinking water was finished. There was
water everywhere around them but they had no a drop to drink.
