The ancient mariner notices a ship moving towards them.Then the ancient mariner realizes that it is a ghost ship and death is steering the ship.Then suddenly all two hundred sailors, drop dead right in front of him.He explains by saying, “One after one,by the star-dogged moon/Too quick for a groan or sigh/Each turned his face with ghastly pang/And cursed me with his eye/Four times fifty living men/(And I heard nor sigh nor groan)/With heavy thump, a lifeless lump/They dropped down one by one,”. The supernatural element of this piece of the poem, is the idea that that the sailors all died at once as a result of the mariner killing the albatross. Coleridge repeats that the sailors did not struggle or make a sound as they died. Correspondingly, he mentions that each of the sailor’s face changed into a painful emotion of horror. As they died, each of them faced the mariner with an evil eye. This is a sign of the Mariner’s guilty conscience. The supernatural world punishes him,for his deed of killing the
The ancient mariner notices a ship moving towards them.Then the ancient mariner realizes that it is a ghost ship and death is steering the ship.Then suddenly all two hundred sailors, drop dead right in front of him.He explains by saying, “One after one,by the star-dogged moon/Too quick for a groan or sigh/Each turned his face with ghastly pang/And cursed me with his eye/Four times fifty living men/(And I heard nor sigh nor groan)/With heavy thump, a lifeless lump/They dropped down one by one,”. The supernatural element of this piece of the poem, is the idea that that the sailors all died at once as a result of the mariner killing the albatross. Coleridge repeats that the sailors did not struggle or make a sound as they died. Correspondingly, he mentions that each of the sailor’s face changed into a painful emotion of horror. As they died, each of them faced the mariner with an evil eye. This is a sign of the Mariner’s guilty conscience. The supernatural world punishes him,for his deed of killing the