He holds him with his glittering eye --The Wedding Guest stood still,And listens like like a three years child:The Mariner hath his will.
The Mariner convinces the wedding guest to listen to his story...
The Mariner kills the bird...
"God save thee, ancient Mariner! From the fiends, that plague thee thus!-- Why look'st thou so?"--With my cross-bow I shot the ALBATROSS.
Death and Life-in-Death arrives, killing all the sailors except the ancient Mariner...
The Mariner realizes he made a mistake: the bird was showing them the way and now they were lost...
And I had done an hellish thing, And it would work 'em woe: For all averred, I had killed the bird That made the breeze to blow. Ah wretch! said they, the bird to slay That made the breeze to blow!
The mariners realize the ocean is haunted and slimy creatures rise from the rotten ocean...
The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea.
The mariners realize the ocean is haunted and slimy creatures rise from the rotten ocean...
As a reminder of how much suffering his error has caused the crew, they hang the dead albatross around his neck...
Ah! well a-day! what evil looks Had I from old and young! Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung.
Are those her ribs through which the Sun Did peer, as through a grate? And is that Woman all her crew? Is that a DEATH? and are there two? Is DEATH that woman's mate?
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