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First of all, this action estranges him from the water and from nature, as he will no longer be a wanderer upon the water as a professional sailor, but become the wanderer seen at the beginning of the tale. It also ostracizes him from humanity, as his fellow sailors reject him and eventually die because of his action. Humanity's need to respect the often irrational laws of the natural world, such as not shooting the albatross, are highlighted by these actions, and thus the Romantic need of man to dwell respectfully in nature is also highlighted.

The mariner initially disdains myth and superstition -- to his peril. Thus, the medieval stress upon faith critical to the evolving Romantic Movement comes to the forefront of the poem's theme. However, as he is condemned to a life in death, as highlighted in the poem, and his fellow sailors are animated and begin to pilot the boat, his distain of the fantastic becomes harshly foolish. The mariner seems half-driven mad by this horrible sight, and the horror of this event hangs upon him to such an extent that the wedding guest himself is shaken to his very moral core, simply watching the mariner's guise as the old man tells what he saw occur.

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The wedding guest at the beginning of the poem is careless, telling the mariner not to stop him, but becomes transfixed as if by a strange, overreaching power: "he cannot chose but hear," reads the framing prologue of the narrative poem. Eventually, the wedding guest no longer disdains the mariner nor the natural world, not cares if he misses the revelry of the wedding party: "I fear thee, ancient Mariner! I fear thy skinny hand! And thou art long, and lank, and brown, / as is the ribbed sea-sand." He cries. The mariner leaves, his duty done for the moment -- until he finds another person to whom to relate his tale, but the wedding guest appears to be shaken by the telling permanently, "sadder and wiser."

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