herefore magnified actions against the spiritual force. The very fact that the Mariner brazenly and unthinkingly took the life of the Albatross, gives confidence to the notion that such a hateful act is ingrained in the nature of the Mariner. It is for this reason that he is exiled from the collective spirit of which he was a part.Attempting to convey this allegory to an audience ruled by rationality and simplicity, as was the case during Neo-Classical period from which Romanticism grew, was a challenge with which Coleridge was faced. Through the personification of the implied author as the Mariner in The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, Coleridge stages the initial element in separating his conflicting beliefs from those of the Zeitgeist. Carrying on from this reader-author-text relationship is Coleridges need for his views to reach an audience. Coleridges description of the poem as a work of pure imagination goads the rationalists of his time to make sense of what might otherwise remain a sea of mystery, and the poems interplay between deliberate nonsense, didactic introspection and moral universalities would no doubt tickle the intellect of such people. In such a way, The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere serves as a tool for those asking questions, those wanting answers, and those seeking complacency. By adopting the needs of all three categories, the poem renders itself as an attractive object of study for a great majority of the educated population.The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere provided its Neo-Classical audience with a brave new perspective of the metaphysical influences on their lives. Its deeply Romantic influence, inherent in its implicit and explicit meaning, carries with it a moral truth expounded by the Mariner in his narration of his adventure. Coleridges experiences, as the mainspring of the poems message, elevate the genre of the poem above mere fiction and saturate it with fundamental and unchangeable truths about ...
