![]() ![]() While interacting with the albatross in this manner, the Ancient Mariner and the ship experience great fortune. They feed it, play with it, and treat it as if it were one of them. Firstly, when he and his fellow sailors reach the rime, they are introduced to the albatross and treat it extremely kindly. The Ancient Mariner exhibits both behaviors throughout the poem. Whether that be the animals, plants or any other piece of the physical nature that we have become accustom with, we have to learn how to coexist and respect one another. ![]() He is shown that we have to respect the environment that surrounds us. I also suppose that the Ancient Mariner was taught a very valuable lesson from killing the albatross. It is a very unique way of expressing ones belief in another force that we humans cannot recognize through the naked eye. And this is precisely what I believe the poem is about. For example, the spirit’s ability to guide the ship through the rime when the sailors treated the albatross kindly and respectfully is symbolic of the spiritual world being able to control the physical world. ![]()
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