The Mariner doesn’t feel truly sorry, and is unable to pray throughout the process of being alone. He is approached by Death and an Angel of Life who loved the creature and the mariner is found alone at sea after she rolls dice with the Mariner for the crew's fate. The mariner decides to kill it and he has to face the consequences. His crew cares and cherishes an Albatross that they come across while at sea. We find the Mariner out at sea with his crew of 200. There are many characters within this poem, but the main are that of the Mariner and the Wedding Guest to whom he tells his story. This is Coleridge’s longest major poem and began a great shift into modern Romantic literature. The Rime of The Ancient Mariner was written in 1798 as part of Coleridge and Wordsworth's collection of poetry in Lyrical Ballads.

Throughout his life, Coleridge was continuously ill, mentally and physically and became addicted to opium as an escape from his diseased body. It is said that Mary Shelley hid behind a couch and listened to Coleridge reciting his famous poem, and that is why it is one of her influences throughout Fra nkenstein. Mary Shelley grew up with the influence of Coleridge through her father who often disagreed with his views, but respected the man, often invited him into their home. Alongside The Time of the Ancient Mariner, Coleridge wrote Kubla Khan, though never finished. Coleridge was also philosopher, involved in metaphysics, literary critic and but was most noted as a poet. Within this collection, Coleridge contributed the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Coleridge was in a group called the Lake Poets, who are often considered the fore-fathers of this widespread movement of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Lyrical Ballads is considered one of the major texts of Romantic poetry. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (born October 1772) is most famous for his poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, which was first published in 1798 in Lyrical Ballads, a collection he co-wrote with William Wordsworth.

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