supernatural element of the poem the rime off the ancient mariner
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.