There will always be those men whose imaginations transcend the limitations of their time. Coleridge is such a man, with The Ancient Mariner being an imaginatively sharp ballad, in contact with mystery and evil, with the penance and final salvation of the evildoer expressed with beautiful language from which gruesome, awesome and shocking imagery does spring. Through Coleridge we sense an audience that has been starved of the mysterious, the unfathomable grandeur of nature and any explorations of human consciousness.

The Ancient Mariner heralded a new type of literature, one that was in touch the unpredictable and the supernatural world. The mystery of divine providence is explored, similarly the wonder of creation and nature emphasise

This stanza directly follows the intensity of the storm - no time is wasted as one breathtaking detail of nature is exchanged for another of completely different kind. Here the eerie stillness echoes through the stanza, as one holds one breath darest you may break the overwhelming silence that blankets the image. However they are saved by the mysterious albatross, a symbol of the goodness of God who splits the ice and leads the ship out of the fog.

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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)