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Mental and Behavioral Health Nursing (2459)
Rasmussen University
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Why does the Albatross fall from the Mariner's neck at the moment that it does?
The ancient had seemingly spent a week alone on a crew-ship. At the same time, he received constant blame and excommunicative eyes from the company he had of dead sailors, who unbelievably did not decompose. With a dead Albatross hanging on his neck combined with the tragedies that had befallen them at sea, he was hopeless and often felt guilty. The only thing available to uplift his spirit was when he saw alluring water snakes scampering next to the boat. This crucial moment develops his intrinsic inspiration, and he receives a devotional recognition of how beautiful God’s creatures are and why they should be appreciated and respected. Here is when the Mariner receives a holly spiritual enlightenment that enables him to coordinate comprehension of spiritual and materialistic worlds (Dyck, 770). His awareness and hold of the spiritual, ideological attitude foster his urge to pray and be partially freed from his initial sin. It is at this point of enlightened spiritual occurrence that the hanging Albatross fell off his neck.
This momentous occurrence of a falling Albatross from the Mariner’s neck happened due to his recognizes and surrenders of his guilt of killing the Albatross. His guilt disappears immediately when he comes to the sight of God's creatures' true beauty, despite his earlier
cursing. Symbolizing a supreme being, the Albatross was not initially appreciated by the Mariner, resulting in his punishing experience. Because of the influential spiritual enlightenment, he recovers the power of prayer, leading to the fall of the Albatross from around his neck to sink into the sea.
What does this signify?
In the poem, the Albatross is a complex, comprehensive symbol without historical comparison, whereby sailors perceived the bird as a symbol of good luck. Therefore, within the poem, it brought about the feeling of hope and fortune to the sailors when it appeared from the foggy conditions, and immediately there was the wind that began to move the ship. Its appearance also seemed to create a material and supernatural symbolism. More analysis of its significance, with the writer's religious background, shows that the Albatross personalized Christ-like figure. Despite being innocent, friendly, and always available when called for, the Mariner mysteriously kills it at sea. The killing results in tragic consequences, which are blamed on the Mariner by his shipmates. They claim that his brutal act is the cause for their bad luck, and therefore they decide to hang the dead bird around his neck as punishment.
This act of hanging the dead Albatross around his neck signified a terrible consequential weight that he had to carry to remind him of his sins. It also indicated a reminder that the Mariner's was responsible for the curse that had befallen the ship and its crew members. He continues to bear this burden for as long as he can, even when dead, dehydrated shipmates hopelessly surround him. When the hanging dead Albatross mythically falls from his neck and slips into the sea, he signified his spiritual recognition of his transgression and enlightenment to regains the ability to pray. The detailed significant lesson on this incident is that our burdens can
punishment he has to go through to redeem himself. Continuity of his problems is evident when he ends his story by asserting that because of the weight of the curse on his soul, he moves around and able to acknowledge an individual to share his stories with.
References
Dyck D. Gathering and Scattering in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”: Poetic Form, Biblical Criticism, and Coleridge’s Tropes of the Imagination, European Romantic Review, (2018), 29:6, 769-786. tandfonline/doi/abs/10.1080/10509585.2018.
Engdahl M. Iron Maiden, Coleridge, and the Ancient Mariner: A comparative analysis of stylistics in Iron Maiden's and Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. (2019), 23- 32 diva-portal/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1288290&dswid=-
Order 1409817 - The albatross fall from the Mariner's neck
Course: Mental and Behavioral Health Nursing (2459)
University: Rasmussen University
