Ah! well-a-day! what evil looks
Had I from old and young!
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung.”
In everyday’s life people do things that have the consequences they were not expecting, so they feel guilty for those things during many time. Guilt is considered as an emotion that occurs when a person realizes that something he or she has done is wrong; nobody is perfect and everybody does mistakes.
The selfsame moment I could pray;
And from my neck so free
The Albatross fell off, and sank
Like lead into the sea.”
Guilt has its own power; many people have to do many things to stop feeling guilty and to realize and found the problem’s solution. Praying is a good way of expressing how sorry a person is about something he or she made, and in that way he or she will take out the guilt that is inside.
He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.”
God is a good guide for life, following his steps is the best thing that anybody can do. He loves everybody, but he also forgives the mistakes in life. The important thing about loving God, is that people has to be honest, well, everybody has to be followed by values and morals; and that is the way that He teaches us the lessons of life.
He went like one that hath been stunned,
And is of sense forlorn:
A sadder and a wiser man
He rose the morrow morn.
Morals and values makes people become more realistic about life, this is something really good because people cannot life a fantasy, even though reality is more hurtful that a dream. In life, is really important that people learn from other one’s experiences and become a wise person with more knowledge about life.
My opinion about Coleridge’s poem
In my opinion, Coleridge added a lot of moral lesson in his poem, but I do think that the message was well explained in this poem, so I do agree with it. Morals is the basic part of life; as Coleridge says in his poem “the Wedding guest became a sadder and wiser man” he is explaining that life is made of experiences that makes people more realistic about every situation. Clearly, Coleridge added too much moral lesson in the poem but is really important that the poem had a message and it explains that even in the most irrelevant situations in life, people have to act in the right way, with morals and values.
Simile
The bride hath paced into the hall
Red as a rose is she………………………………
Metaphor
Personification
The Sun came up upon the left
Out of the sea came he!
Alliteration
The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast
Assonance
In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud,
Internal rhyme
a speck, a mist, a shape, I wist!
