Samuel Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a poem in which an "ancient mariner" accosts one of three men on their way to a wedding, and recounts a tale of his voyage to him. ... There are essentially three characters: an omnipresent narrator, the wedding guest, and the ancient mariner. ... What's also significant is how this quote supports how the mariner could be thought of as Coleridge's echo in that he – at least to a certain extent – reflects Coleridge's moral attitudes. ... On the surface, the killing of the albatross is presented as a...

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