Themes*

• "the Line"
  • crossing it
  • crossing back
• the "water snakes"
  • in the rotting sea
  • as "creatures"
  • Alive with him
  • Why alive?
  • watching the water snakes
  • "God's creatures of the great calm"
  • "Their beauty and their happiness"
• the cross
  • the Albatross crossing
  • the Mariner's cross-bow
  • the Albatross hung "like a cross"
  • the crew's souls compared to the sound of a "cross-bow"
  • Jesus and the cross
• "creatures"
  • the snakes as creatures of "the calm"
  • the snakes as "God's creatures of the great calm"
• hospitality
  • to the albatross
  • inhospitality to the albatross
• sin and redemption [SK]
  • Part IV, the Mariner's "penance"
  • The Albatross falling off the Mariner's neck
  • Sin and fear
  • The Hermit shrieving the Mariner
  • Perpetual penance

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