What would you do....?

That sparkly eye must have been very captivating. If I were the wedding-guest I would’ve probably stayed to listen to him too. His story told things that you’d never see in real life maybe in a dream, but this was the Rime of the Ancient Mariner. In reality, I could see as him being a homeless man off the streets and asking for change but instead he asks could he tell you a story. You would look at him and say “Really? No that’s okay.” Soon after he looks at you in the eyes you are taken in and he goes away with telling that story. Something about that is just so weird yet interesting to me. If I had that power I would want to change the way people are. I would want to teach people a lesson and that was a good way to do such.

After reading the “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” there are many ways to characterize Coleridge’s interests, ethics, and aesthetics. Coleridge has an interest in nature’s beauty and conserving it. Even things that aren’t beautiful on the outside. After killing the albatross it says “The sun now rose upon the right… went down into the sea.” That suggests that Coleridge thinks that everything has a meaning and purpose on the earth and killing something could possibly affect how things work. The moral of the story can characterize Coleridge’s ethics. The mariner thought the albatross was an awful creature and after killing it he thought it was good. Soon he realized that it was not good. The killing of the albatross made the breeze stop and soon they came to a stop because there was no wind to push them along anymore.  Until things started happening to him and when he realized that horrifying things were beautiful did things start to change for him.

Overall Coleridge wants the lesson from this to be learned that all things have a purpose on the earth and they are beautiful no matter how they look. “He prayeth best who loveth best all things both great and smaller; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.” With reference about God, Coleridge seems to have a religious quality in it that God created everything with the purpose of good. Anything he makes it seen in his eyes as beautiful and he doesn’t question his creations.

             He also says at the end that the wedding-guest walked away with greater knowledge. Coleridge wanted his readers to something from this. He wanted people to appreciate all that nature has to offer, because it is a very wide range of things it has for us. We find cures, new species, and new foods all over. Things that might not look appetizing might be the best thing for us when were sick. An animal that might look very frightening might be the nicest, caring animal in the world. We can’t judge things we really know about because our expectations could be the very opposite of reality.