Question

Summary of 'The Rhyme of the ancient Mariner' part two..?

Answer 1

TheMarinersays that after he shot theAlbatross, the ship began sailing northward. While the winds still blow, theSailorsfeel the absence of the bird, and they cry out against the Mariner for his hellish deed. But when the mist begins to fade, the Sailors attribute this positive change to the Albatross’s death, and they justify the killing and praise the Mariner for what he did, making themselves accomplices to his crime.The Sailors also feel the need to interpret, and while they do so immediately, they change theirminds quite easily. These interpretations—willingness to suggest that humans can control nature, or that killing the Albatross was the right thing to do—are also figured as a sin for which the Sailors are punished.
The ship sailed northward into the Pacific Ocean, and although the sun shone during the day and the wind remained strong, the mist held fast. The other sailors were angry with theAncientMarinerfor killing theAlbatross, which they believed had saved them from the icy world by summoning the wind: "Ah wretch! Said they, the bird to slay / That made the breeze to blow!" Then the mist disappeared and the sun shone particularly brightly, "like God's own head." The sailors suddenly changed their opinion. They decided that the Albatross must have brought the must, and praise the Ancient Mariner for having killed it and rid them of the mist:"Twas right, said they, such birds to slay, /That bring the fog and mist."The ship sailed along merrily until it entered an uncharted part of the ocean, and the wind disappeared. The ship could not move, and sat "As idle as a painted ship / Upon a painted ocean." Then the sun became unbearably hot just as the sailors ran out of water, leading up to the most famous lines in the poem: "Water, water, every where, / And all the boards did shrink; / Water, water, every where, / Nor any drop to drink." The ocean became a horrifying place; the water churned with "slimy" creatures, and at night, eerie fires seemed to burn on the ocean's surface. Some of the sailors dreamed that an evil spirit had followed them from the icy world, and they all suffered from a thirst so terrible that they could not speak. To brand the Ancient Mariner for his crime and place the guilt on him and him alone,the sailors hung the Albatross's dead carcass around his neck.