Themes

Theme of Suffering and Punishment.

Theme of hope.
Theme of desperation and depravity
Supernatural and horrific theme.
Theme of imprisonment and fate.
 Theme of Suffering and Punishment.
 There passed a weary
time / Each throat was
parch’d, and glazed each
eye”.
“With throats unslanked,
with black lips baked, we
could nor laugh nor wail”.
 “Without a breeze,
without a tide”.
Theme of hope.

When the mariner saw

another ship approaching
Theme of desperation and depravity
The mariner bit
down on his
own arm to
lubricate his
throat enough
to shout “A sail!
A sail”,
Supernatural and horrific theme
Approaching ship turned
out to be a ghost ship
having a lady and her
companion, the theme
of false hope arises,
alongside supernatural
elements.
For the ship was sailing
“without a breeze,
without a tide”, and was
described as “Are those
her ribs through which
the Sun Did peer,”,
 Theme of imprisonment and fate.
The mariner observes that
Death and Life-in-Death
were playing dice for the
ship’s crew, “And the twain
were casting dice”, to which
Life-in-Death announced
“The game is done! I’ve
won! I’ve won!” Life-in-
Death won the soul of the
mariner