Symbols and Symbolism in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner :: Rime

Symbols in The Rime of the ancient Mariner   A shut reading of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner will reveal that the Ancient Mariner-who is at once himself, Coleridge and all humanity-having sinned, both incurs punishment and seeks redemption or, in other words, becomes anxiously aware of his relation to the God of Law (as symbolized by the Sun), and in his sub-consciousness earnestly entreats the for attachedess of the God of Love (represented by the bootleg-symbol).   ... For prof Lowes, while he has disclosed a Coleridge of amazing knowing wait ... stops short on the border line of purely fanciful experience. In his long study of The Ancient Mariner, he seems to miss the innate allegory.... when all is said, his unsparable book is content to be a review of Coleridges intellectual and creative relation to his available sources in books, in conversations and in his demeanor history, not (save on occasion as supplying a quotidian argument) to articulate pa rt with part in the poetic intention as a whole ....   ... There is nowhere here or elsewhere in the book The Road to Xanadu a hint of the history pot the Mariners glittering eye, a suggestion of the poets bold transfer of the glitter in the dead seamens eyes (Death) to those of the Mariner (Life-in-Death). The poet introduces the Mariner abruptly and repetitively as one with a glittering eye. A similar emphasis is given to the epithet bright-eyed (as in the penultimate stanza of cut off VII) and when the fearful question, Why lookst gigabyte so?, is asked, our thoughts revert to that sinister glitter. Now consider this stanza in Part III   One after one, by the star-dogged Moon, Too quick for emit or sigh, Each turned his face with a ghastly pang, And swear me with his eye, and these stanzas also from Part IV The cold sweat melted from their limbs, Nor disintegration nor reek did they The look with which they looked on me Had never passed away. An orpha ns curse would drag to underworld A spirit from on high But ohl more dire than that Is a curse in a dead mans eye vii days, seven nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not let on and these again from Part VI All stood together on the deck, For a charnel-dungeon fitter All fixed on me their stony eyes, That in the Moon did glitter.