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Grade Level: [ ]Grade School Type of Work: [x]Essay/Report/Term
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[x]High School [ ]Informational
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[ ]College [ ]Notes
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[ ]Misc
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>Chop Here>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
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"Look out Below!" - Craaack! About 15 Men and women turn their glances
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toward the sky, and see a large, perhaps 100 feet, tree falling to the
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ground. As the tree hits the solid earth, everything grows very quiet. All
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look at the lumberjack, who killed this tree, and find him weeping in
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sorrow. This situation is not uncommon when dealing with Nature. Nature,
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as simple as it seems to some, generates great power. This power is sent
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to us, as nature forgives only after a physical, emotional, and spiritual
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suffering. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" helps implement all these
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teachings together. In current times, this power continues to teach us of
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forgiveness.
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With physical suffering, the power of nature shows us forgiveness many
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ways. In the story, the mariner betrays nature: "I shot the Albatross!"
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This action against nature is rather extreme, for he takes lightly to this
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thought of death. The Albatross, as a representative of nature, means
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nothing to the Mariner. These thoughts are quickly changed, though, as
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Nature begins to start the penance leading towards forgiveness - "Water,
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water, everywhere nor any drop to drink." When "the mariner begins to find
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his salvation when he begins to look on the 'slimy things' as creatures of
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strange beauty" (Fraser 203), he understands the Albatross was a symbol of
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nature and he realized what he had done wrong. The mariner is forgiven
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after sufficient penance - "We could not speak" - is performed by Nature.
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Nature shows us more strength as we realize that people of today often can
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not forgive someone who has shot or killed another person.
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At a spiritual level, Nature's power can decide if we will live, or be
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condemned. Nature is capable of presenting "innermost suffering" (Coburn
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33) upon people. The mariner's suffering included having his "soul in
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agony" soon afterwards. After attempts at prayer and realization of what he
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has done - "I looked to heaven and tried to pray", his penance to
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forgiveness begins spiritually. The mariner releases the weight of the
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crime greatly at the "moment he could pray". "The albatross around the
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mariner's neck was an emblem of an inner state" (Fraser 204), as it "fell
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off and sank", the mariner was forgiven. Guilt follows many of us
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throughout our lives today as we do brash things and taunt with Nature.
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Yet with these brash things we do, Nature continues to forgive us.
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At an emotional level, our emotions are important factors for pennance
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from Nature. The mariner took for granted the love Nature had for him. All
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around his ship, he witnessed "slimy things did crawl with legs upon the
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slimy sea" and he questioned "the curse in the Dead man's eyes". This shows
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his contempt for the creatures that Nature provides for all of us. The
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mariner begins to find his salvation when he "begins to look on the 'slimy
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things' as creatures of strange beauty" (Coburn 34). The mariner's
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experience represents a "renewal of the impulse of love towards other
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living things." (Fraser 206). Even Today, many people look upon Nature in
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a similar way as that of the Mariner, not loving it. But Nature always
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forgives those people.
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Nature is a powerful element. Using it's physical, spiritual and
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emotional leveled powers, it can help teach us to focus on life and love.
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Today, nature is present all around us as living animals. These animals,
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when taken care of properly, return the care as love and help each of us to
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live long lives because of it. Love is an important aspect in human life,
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without it we can die lonely. With love, we die with all that is around
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us.
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Bibliography Fraser, G.S. A Short
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History of English Poetry. Barnes & Noble Books. Totowa, New Jersey.
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Coburn, Kathleen. Coleridge. Prentice-Hall Inc. Englewood Cliffs, New
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Jersey.
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