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Quite beautiful really; although set in a surreal landscape, the message of the need for Godliness is clear.

Believe it or not, I've memorized this beautiful thing, and will inflict it upon anyone willing to sit still for 35 minutes.

I think there are three ways to hear it:

(1) as strange and solemn music,

(2) as a horror movie with great special effects by a God-hungry opium addict, and

(3)as the soul's odyssey in Western religion: that is, alienation through sin FROM the rest of Creation to atonement ("at one"-ment) when one rings again with the resonant frequency of the Creator.

Coleridge's marginal comments to "The Rime" are beautiful, elucidating (or hallucinating), and almost indispensible to the poem; My favorite is "No twilight within the courts of the Sun," when night descends instantly after the ghost ship departs, and before the Mariner's shipmates just as suddenly DROP down dead.

I don't know if these could somehow be added to this copy, but, if not, I thought I'd recommend them to readers desiring further explanation or further beauty.

i think that lust of the major sins is what he commits when killing the albatorss and for his redemtion he loves all things

"lust of the major sins is what he commits when killing the albatorss and for his redemtion he loves all things"

What does that mean? excuse me but I have never read the Bible, the first Bible I came accross was sent into the fireplace by a drunk.

i know this doesn't excatly fall under the "help other visitors understand" but i feel i must say this: Coleridge must have been really bored when he wrote this rime to have made it this long.

Rime of the ancient mariner is a wonderful poem written in Iambic Pentameter. I thoroughly enjoyed the role of the albatross throughout the story. Please holler back.