Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Coleridge's tale of the mariner and the albatross was quite interesting. The mariner and the members of the ship set sail through the icy ocean. The ship is having trouble breaking through the ice when an albatross comes and brings the sailors safe passage. The mariner apparently grows tired of the creature hanging around all the time playing and wanting food. He shoots and kills the beast. The crew members feel as if the albatross was a good omen from God and they would be cursed. Coleridge is an ideal romantic poet. He writes of the supernatural. The crew and the mariner come across a ship of skeletons that play a dice game for souls. All the men die, but the mariner. He is cursed for killing the albatross. The skeletons curse the mariner to walk the Earth for etenerity teaching and telling his tale. I believe Coleridge is trying to express his beliefs in God's salvation.