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In the poem, Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Coleridge, there are apparent environments that are entirely seeable throughout the excellent piece of writing. The changes of the different surroundings are so pronounced in the poem and these kinds of versatilities are what keep the poem an interesting masterpiece of the poet's mind, thus making it an interesting-to-read poem.

At the very start of the poem we realize that the environment that the crew was in is somewhat calm until when someone kills a bird arguing that it has caused some havoc in the ship in regard to the fog that was in the shore, 'at length did cross an Albatross,

Thorough the fog it came'. The bird, albatross, flies around the ship in circles causing the ice to crack and split up as the writer says that, 'It ate the food it ne'er had eat, and round and round it flew and the ice did split with a thunder-fit'. The poets pens down that '...a good south wind sprung up behind, the Albatross did follow'. Subsequently a strong wind from the south direction acts as a propellant pushing the ship out the bare land. The ship is taken to a foggy place with lots of water able to keep it on sail; 'and now there came both mist and snow'.

The fog with time ceases to exist and the crew decides that the bird hadn't only brought one effect but two: the breezes and the fog. This very time there is a peaceful environment conducive for the journeying of the sailors. They congratulate the killer of the bird for doing something that helped them out. There are however, some strong winds that push their ship into a not-so-good sailing place making the sailors to be stranded in the shore. By the time they wake up they are so cross with the Mariner for their plight and hence they hung the corpse of the Albatross around his neck like a cross.

The story of the wedding-guest being under the mariners custody comes about with the sea being sunny than usual but cheerful at the same time. A giant storm is on the raise and sways the ship to a southward direction. This causes the ship to land on a bare land which is composed of mist and snow which the writer says that ice the height of a mast came floating by; "And ice, mast-high, came floating by".

There are also some times when the crew sees some imaginary creatures which seamed as though they would end there journey. During the night the water is said to burn green blue and white with the fire of death; 'Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white, glimmered the white moonshine'. This draws up an environment that is seemingly fear-aggravating to the ship crew. There are some tense moments when the ship crew has some weird dreams of them being haunted by a spirit that is following them underneath the ship. The writer says that, 'And some in dreams assured were, Of the Spirit that plagued us so; Nine fathom deep he had followed us, From the land of mist and snow'.

The mariner as time passes by; looks at the horizon and sees a very tiny but noticeable speck on the horizon. This is it nears appears to be a ship that is coming to their rescue, but it certainly isn't, it is then apparent that the kind of an environment that the boarders are in a ghost invested environment. The poet says that; 'Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was as white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thinks man's blood with cold'.

The ship appears ghostly when it is nearer to the view of the sailors. The oncoming ship has two figures therein; Death and the Nightmare Life in Death, conforming a pale woman with scary red lips. The creatures then begin to act as though in some kind of a game and the skeletal woman wins and whistles three times thus leading to the untimely setting of the sun. The stars emerge and then the moon rises accompanied by a single star, seeing this, the sailors drop dead one by one with an exception of the mariner. They all curse the mariner for their undue death.

This instance causes another change to the environment as the wedding guest blames the mariner for all the instances that have occurred. The wedding guest thinks that the mariner is a ghostly but the mariner declines this. The mariner tries to pray but there are hindrances that keep on deterring him to pray; a wicked whisper and the sight of the dead on the ground. The poem comes to a dramatic end as the mariner is left out alone and doesn't know what to do. He bids his fellow journey counterparts a bye and prays for them.

The poem is full of dramatic turns and twist of events that create mind boggling ideas in the head of the reader. It also has a dramatic end as the mariner is left out alone and doesn't know what to do. He bids his fellow journey counterparts a bye and prays for them.