Introducing "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

Imagine that you are on a ship stuck in the middle of a ocean. There is not a drop to drink and all the crew members are mysteriously dying. Finally only a ‘Mariner’ survives. The ship sails again, but there is no wind! A ghost ship passes by. The dead seamen come back to life as a troop of dead spirits enter their bodies, spooked? You ought to be. However, there is more to it.‘The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner’, is about a spiritual journey of a mariner. It tells the tale of crime, guilt and redemption. The Mariner kills the Albatross and this evokes the hidden forces.

The story starts of as three men walking to a wedding together, when all of a sudden the mariner grabs one of the three men who are going to the wedding. The mariner starts to tell a story about himself, to the man a story about him sailing out to sea on a ship. Everything went well at first but quickly changed there was ice and snow as well as the wind pushing them south. Sailors encountered an albatross, a giant sea bird. As it flew around the ship, the ice cracked and split, and a wind from the south propelled the ship out of the frigid regions. The albatross flew around the ship giving the ship and sailors good luck until the mariner shoots the albatross with a crossbow, the albatross dies. The ship stands still in the ocean the sailors have no food or water the blame the mariner for all of the bad things that are happening, they make him were the albatross around his neck. The sea became rotten and slimy. Since they had no water they became so parched they could not speak. They saw a ship out in the distance and they weren't able to yell so the mariner bit his arm and drank the blood so he could yell at the ship. The ship started to come there way they realized   it was a ghostly ship, with a women that had golden hair and red lips  made a gamble with each sailor and they all died, except the mariner. He was on the boat for seven days and seven nights then he saw blue, green, and    black snakes in the sea the mariner blessed them and then the albatross fell from his neck and sank into the sea. 






Ashley Cramblett