Traveling foreign seas seeking redemption for his sin was the destiny of the Ancient Sea Mariner. The Mariner, the main character in Samuel Coleridge’s poem “Rime of Ancient Mariner”, must do this task to ease the burden of the guilt he feels for harming one of God’s beautiful creatures. His life and actions have been reduced to warning others of the mistake he made and telling his story to all whom he feels are called to hear it.
The Mariner and the ship came to a frigid land "of mist and snow," where "ice, mast-high, came floating by.” But then the sailors encountered an Albatross, a great sea bird. As it flew around the shi
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