He finally recognizes what it is, but his mouth is caked dry, and he is unable to speak. What they can now see is a ship comes their way. ... A boat comes towards the ship, carrying a pilot, the pilot's boy, and a hermit. The mariner looks forward to the hermit washing away his sins. ... The men make it back to shore, and the mariner is talking to the hermit. ...
What follows from all these little and big symptoms is death. ... When the Mariner is rescued from his sinking ship by the Hermit, the Pilot, and the Pilot's Boy, the Mariner, upon seeing the Hermit, exclaims: It is the Hermit good! ... He'll shrieve my soul, he'll wash away The Albatross's blood. (509-513) The Mariner believes that the Hermit, being a person in harmony with both nature and God, will be able to cleanse him of his sin. These lines show that, no matter how much penance he does, or how much mercy he is shown, the Mariner will always feel the guilt of w...
He returns to the darkness of his cell to ponder over what he now sees as almost an injustice that has been done to him and the anger of the exile creeps into him. ... He rejects any connection with the rest of mankind, shunning them for what has been done to him, as if to make them feel the guilt he is feeling. ...
