Theme Presented In The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

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His luck indeed seems to change, and the Mariner experiences the
punishment that comes with the moral error of killing the Albatross--
isolation and alienation from everything but himself. Then, the
"Nightmare," the life in death, kills his crew. He is lost at sea, left
alone in the night to suffer, and he has detached from his natural cycle.
The Mariner proclaims his misery when he says: "Alone, alone, all, all
alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in
agony." To the Mariner, nature has become foreign. This is a very low
point in his spiritual journey.
The Mariner then has a reversal of sentiment. While looking at the
stars and the moon, the Mariner notices that the stars have a place in the
sky, and they belong to a set position; the moon, however does not, and is
on a journey, just like the Mariner. It is then that the Mariner decides
to accept everything around him as beautiful, and a natural course of
action takes place and ...

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