"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" was written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1791. He was part of the Romantic Era in literature. The ballad is about a Mariner who shoots an albatross, and is cursed forever. In this extract the Mariner is talking to a wedding guest about his travels and the effect it had on him. In the extract he begins by describing the Mariner's repentance and catharsis doings. He later creates a juxtaposition, with a structural shift, between the horrible pain he felt and the happy wedding. Throughout the extract the writer uses religious symbols as well as inner conflict, which showcases the mariner's pain in the poem.
The Mariner has arrived in England, and he was spotted by a curious wedding guest. The wedding guest then questions who he is, and he describes the pain he feels. These stanzas are from the middle of part the seven. Coleridge writes, "Forthwith this frame of mine was wrenched with a woeful agony, which forced me to being my tale; and then it let me free." In the first line Coleridge writes, "This frame of mine." This means he does not belong to his own body. This would be done, because he only lives to warn others of his wrong doings. This connects with the thesis, because he has become his story, and it introduces the pain he has suffered as well as inner conflict. The Mariner, himself, died on the boat, and only his body exists. In the third line of the second stanza Coleridge writes, "Which forces me to being my tale;" Here, he is talking about the "woeful agony" he felt as a result of his actions. His tale is the warning he gives to others who must hear, so they do not make the same mistake. The pain he felt creates, and is the reason for his story. It is also a reason the extract is so significant, because of his connection with the wedding guest; the mariner does not want the wedding guest to go down the same route he did.
