Sometimes I think that we give old poems too much importance simply because
they have gotten popular over time. We should consider the fact that most
writers writing something quite extraordinary, in other words, a word that is
out of the norm and not ordinary might just be having a fit of anger or
hillucinations when they were writing something that we now think is quite
inspirational.
I think Coleridge had a really twisted mind and could have been crazy as
well to imagine such things as he did in the poem 'Ancient Mariner'. A mariner
having to tell a story to any apointed man he sees otherwise he will feel a
huge burden over his soul that he cannot encumber at all? Spirits coming from
water into the bodies of dead crew and sailing the ship? Huge bird, the
Albatross attacking and eating all what they had and the Mariner killing it
then feeling guilty for it?
The whole thing shows how twisted his mind was once he was writing this
poem. Probably he was disturbed to such e…