Question

how the beginning of the poem The Ancient Mariner a stark contrast to the ending

Answer 1

The ancient Mariner stops one of the wedding-guests.He basically feels like narrating his story to him and sharing his grief.The Wedding-Guest does not have the time and is in a hurry as he has to attend the wedding party.The bright-eyed Mariner makes the wedding guest weak.He is left with no option but listen to his tale.The old Mariner starts talking about his story.Their ship had left the harbour happily.There was a severe storm and it pushed them southwards.Then the weather became very cold with both snow and mist.The ship gets bordered by huge icebergs that are as high as the flagpole.Then comes the albatross from the fog.The sailors cheer it as a ‘Christian Soul’.The albatross’s entry is considered auspicious as it brings a favourable south wind.The sailors give food to it and it flies over the ship.In an irrational fit, the ancient Mariner kills the albatross with his cross-bow.The fellow mariners start cursing the old Mariner as he killed an innocent and auspicious bird.The weather gets worse. The Mariners then change their opinion.Now they think that the killing of the albatross was justified as it had brought mist and snow.Sadness prevails all around.The sun becomes too harsh and the ocean starts rotting.The wind stops blowing and the sails get dropped down.The ship gets stuck at one point and doesn’t move ahead.It looks like someone has painted a ship on a painted ocean.There is water around but the sailors don’t have a single drop of water to drink.The sailors then see in their dreams that a spirit was cursing them.

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Answer 2

In Samuel Taylor Coleridge's epic poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the point of the story is clear in the tradition of the early Romantics. While there are several characteristics of that form of writing, including the imagination, the supernatural, the importance of the individual, etc., the most outstanding theme is that of a return to nature, and the idealization of it.

It Coleridge's poem about the unenlightened mariner (sailor), the conflict begins when, for no good reason, the man shoots, with his bow, the albatross (a large sea bird) that had been following the ship. From that point on the ship is cursed. The wind stops and the ship is becalmed. The crew runs out of water. They face the supernatural: two specters gamble for the lives of the sailors. "Life-in-Death" wins the soul of the mariner, but the others die. The mariner strives to return to England with the help of a ghostly crew (his mates, inhabited by angels); upon arriving in his home country, the mariner has learned a new love and respect for nature. It is his fate, to visit all who need to hear his story so they will know how important the natural world is.

Edgar Allan Poe's story of The Narrative of Gordon Pym is very different. Although Poe is considered a Romantic writer, the story concentrates more on the darkness in men's souls, wherever the characters travel. Pym and Augustus are confronted with mutinous sailors, a homicidal crew on a ship that "saves them," and Pym faces murderous natives who attempt to kill all of them. The end of the story is abrupt, with no sense that the survivors ever reach home again.

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