The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

remainder-in-Life means to be dungeon in a constant fear or apprehension of closing, or a feeling that the individual is damned but the dead frame remains. Life-in-Death suggests the idea that the nous leave continue but the body exit deteriorate. In the poem the Rime of the Ancient cakehole by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the enigma of death-in-life and life-in-death is a consistent theme throughout this piece of literature. The sailors corpses, the constant aging of the mariners body and the gamble of death and life suggest this theme in Coleridges poem.When a someones heart stops pumping origin, the aver climb on amount of time for the body to start decomposing is four to six days. This average is dependent upon the temperature the body is unplowed if it is hot and in the sun the body will decompose lots faster than in colder climates. In Coleridges poem the sailors bodies are in the sun for seven days, yet they refuse to be subjected to the ravages of time. The many men so beautiful / and they all dead did guile / and a thousand thousand slimy things lived on / and so did I / The cold sweat melted from their limbs / nor rot or reek did they / the heart with which they looked on me / had never passed away / Seven days, seven nights, / I see that curse and yet could not die (Coleridge, IV, 1817). The sailors corpses bewilder intact while their souls escape, leaving the mariner with the visible token of the living death that awaits. The wedding Guest proclaims to fear the Mariner because he looks so skinny and aged. I fear thee and thy glittering eye, / And thy skinny hand, so brown. worry not, fear not, thou Wedding-Guest / This body dropt not down. / Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide wide sea / And never a canonise took pity on / My soul in agony (Coleridge, IV, 1817). The Mariner explains that his soul is trapped in his body and his body will continue to age but will never rot enough to release his spirit. In the Rime of the An cient Mariner the Mariner explains to the Wedding Guest of how his soul came to be doomed. He explains that when he was on the ship with his crew that he saw another ship approaching.This brought hope to the whole crew because they musical theme that their bodies were going to be saved. When the ship approached, the Mariner saw that it was Death and Life-in-Death. Her lips were red, her looks were free, / Her locks were jaundiced as gold / Her skin was as white as leprosy, / The Night-mare Life-in-Death was she, / Who thicks mans blood with cold. / The naked hulk alongside came, / And the twain were casting dice / The bet on is done Ive won Ive won / Quoth she, and whistles thrice (Coleridge, III, 1817).With Life-in-Deaths three whistles she eliminates the sun and replaces it with dark shadows. She took the lives of the men on the ship, except for that of the Mariners. She cursed him with an eternity of living death. He is condemned to walk to the Earth and tell his tale to who mever will listen. The symbolic interpretation when death and life in death went to slip the Mariners soul is that of arriving on a ship, when in biblical terms wood means death and water means life.Life in death ironically wins the soul of the mariner. In the Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Death in Life and Life in Death is a constant contradicting theme throughout this metaphorical anecdote. The mythical saving of the sailors bodies, the damnation of the Mariners soul, and the gamble between death and life-in-death truly remind the audience of this continuous theme.Works Citedhttp//poetry.eserver.org/ancient-mariner.html