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(1)From the beginning of time, authors around the world have been utilizing their ability to create an images, whether it be in poetry, books, or plays. (2) Ideas and imagery can be developed and created especially well with symbols and strong word depiction.(3) In Rime of The Ancient Mariner By Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the author uses symbolism throughout the poem to develop, build and clearly depict the plot both in literary and visual sense. (4) Coleridge employs symbols to indicate and characterize the poem as less than cheerful, these symbols include the Ghost Ship and the snakes.(5) The Ghost Ship itself serves as a symbol for death, “The nightmare Life-In-Death” (193).(6)Coleridge uses the ship as symbol to represent death or the grim …show more content…

(10) It’s made evident when the Mariner blesses the snakes unaware.(11) These being “Slimy things did crawl with legs upon the slimy …show more content…

(16) The two represent a parallel to the Ghost Ship and snakes. (17) The Albatross symbolizes a connection to god, “He loved the bird that loved the man who shot him with his bow”(405-406).(18) God loved the Albatross so dearly that, when the Mariner shot it down, earned the stupid mortal his curse of being an empty wanderer .(19) The other parallel symbol included by Coleridge is the spirits, they have a tie or a connection to God in the same sense as the Albatross that is contrasting to the snakes.(20) While the parallel structure utilized by Coleridge remains in tack the symbolic state that god is represented by the spirits as a force of nature, “The spirit slide; and it was he that made the ship to go”(379-380). (21) The spirit being in a contrasting symbolic state is opposite to the snakes mentioned earlier by Coleridge, while the snakes demonstrate the loss of the Mariner’s connection with God the spirits establish and demonstrate that he is still present and an acting force.(22) “As the narrator implies, if God is present in communion, the communion must be complete; must include "man and bird and beast," albatross and Mariner”(Davidson, Arnold E ).(23) Tying together with the ideology that the Mariner lost his connection with God, although he still remains

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