Contrast and Symbolism: On the Role of Wedding in Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

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story; The symbolic meaning is in common with the experience of the old sailor.

II. the comparison of wedding guests and old sailors

The contrast between the wedding guests and the old sailors is reflected in multiple dimensions. First, the rush of wedding guests contrasts with the lengthy story of the old sailor. As you can see from the beginning, the old sailor pulled one of them in order to let the wedding guests listen to his story; his story started with "There is a boat there", which was obviously long and boring; the wedding guests hurriedly went to the banquet, yes The old sailor seemed impatient: "With your beard and bright eyes swear, why did you stop me?" (Korridge, 279 ) And when the old sailor started to tell stories, he heard several times during the wedding banquet The music of the wedding, anxiously thumps the chest and stops the foot, for fear of missing the splendor of the wedding.
The festive atmosphere at the wedding and the gloomy story of the old ...

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they seem to be outside and sitting outside the banquet hall On a dim stone, he looked at the old sailor's bright eyes and listened to him tell the story. In the story, the scene is a vast and deep sea, which itself implies a mysterious power, alluding to the spiritual loneliness of human nature-this can be seen from the solitude of the old sailor facing the sea after the crew were killed.
The supernatural elements in the old sailor 's story also seem to be full of contradictions with the wedding scene: the environment description at the time of the sea is the weather and stars, the albatross appears in the mist; after killing the albatross, the supernatural power appears, the sea ...

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