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Bring outthe use of the supernatural in THE RIME OF ANCIENT MARINER .Please its urgent...........

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The poem is full of strange, macabre, uncanny or Gothic elements. Gothic horror fiction was very popular at the time it was written. Discuss how these elements appear in the poem. You should consider

  • the strange weather;
  • the albatross as a bird of “good omen”;
  • Death and Life-in-death;
  • the spirit from “the land of mist and snow”, and the two spirits the mariner hears in his trance;
  • the angelic spirits which move the bodies of the dead men;
  • the madness of the pilot and his boy;
  • the mariner 's “strange power of speech”,
  • and anything else of interest.

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  • The very description of the ancient mariner and the look in his eyes, his skinny hands lendthe supernatural element to the poem right at the beginning.
  • There is more to his "glittering eye" than mere madness, as he is able to compel the Wedding Guest to listen to his story with the fascination of a three-year-old child. Although he is clearly human, the Ancient Mariner seems to have a touch of the otherworldly in him.
  • The emergence of the Albatross from the mist, and the sailors revering it as a sign of good luck, as though it were a "Christian soul" sent by God to save them.
  • The initial descriptions of the ship and its crew are fairly realistic, but as the ancient mariner undergoes his quest for understanding and redemption, the supernatural world increasingly engulfs him.
  •  For much of the poem, the mariner is adrift in the middle of the ocean, symbolically cut off from all human companionship. The mariner kills the albatross whose spirit takes its revenge on all the mariners. They face utter drought in spite of water being everywhere. The ship is becalmed- As idle as a painted ship / Upon a painted ocean.
  • Sailors' senses assaulted with huge icy forms, terrifying sounds, and bewildering echoes.
  • Supernatural beings appear in the poem as symbolic or allegorical figures, representing the forces of nature, life, death, and retribution.
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