The reader of “The Rime of The Ancient Mariner” may think that punishment of the mariners is finished when he cherishes the beauty of water-snakes. But once the negative energy is created it is unfixable. Most of the visible traces of the mariner’s crime have vanished, but the punishment of Life-in-Death is still at work. Since he has committed a hideous act, the mariner will ever be the man that he once was. He has a special past and a special doom. At times the memory of what he has done is so insistent that he must speak of it to someone and by forcing others to listen to him, the mariner regains some of that worst and disastrous
The reader of “The Rime of The Ancient Mariner” may think that punishment of the mariners is finished when he cherishes the beauty of water-snakes. But once the negative energy is created it is unfixable. Most of the visible traces of the mariner’s crime have vanished, but the punishment of Life-in-Death is still at work. Since he has committed a hideous act, the mariner will ever be the man that he once was. He has a special past and a special doom. At times the memory of what he has done is so insistent that he must speak of it to someone and by forcing others to listen to him, the mariner regains some of that worst and disastrous