... mistake of killing the "bird of good omen," this act is seen as murder and brings many evils to act upon him (27). This was Wordsworth's main criticism of the poem, that the mariner does not act, but is constantly acted upon and pursued by a dark and sinister fate. In the second printing of Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth does, however, give Coleridge ... terrible arthritis in the form of laudanum, he later abused it as a means to escape his everyday troubles and insecurities. Despite these character flaws, he had a great sense of self-analysis that helped him to overcome his shortcomings (...

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