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* TheGrimReaper: DEATH. He fails to collect the Mariner's soul, so it instead goes to [[FateWorseThanDeath Life-In-Death].
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* TheGrimReaper: DEATH. He fails to collect the Mariner's soul, so it instead goes to [[FateWorseThanDeath Life-In-Death].Life-In-Death]].
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* TheGrimReaper: DEATH. He fails to collect the Mariner's soul, so it instead goes to [[FateWorseThanDeath Life-In-Death]]
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* TheGrimReaper: DEATH. He fails to collect the Mariner's soul, so it instead goes to [[FateWorseThanDeath Life-In-Death]]Life-In-Death].
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* DemBones: DEATH is a skeleton; LIFE-IN-DEATH is either skeletally thin or an outright skeleton depending on interpretation.
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* DemBones: DEATH is a skeleton; LIFE-IN-DEATH is either [[NothingButSkinAndBones skeletally thin thin]] or an outright skeleton depending on interpretation.
* FlyingDutchman: The Mariner is the "Wandering Jew" variation of this; he's compelled to [[WalkingTheEarth wander the world]] for the rest of time, repeating his tale to those in need of wisdom and prespective.
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* FlyingDutchman: The Mariner is the "Wandering Jew" variation of this; he's compelled to [[WalkingTheEarth wander the world]] for the rest of time, repeating his tale to those in need of wisdom and prespective.
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* GhostShip: The ship, which manages to sail without wind and only two passengers (Death and Life-in-Death).
* GhostShip: The soul ship, which manages to sail without wind and carries only two passengers (Death and Life-in-Death).
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* HopeSpot: The Mariner notices a ship coming along and hails it, thinking that it is coming to the aid of the Mariner and his crewmen. It turns out that the ship is manned by Death and Life-In-Death, who promptly take the lives of all but the Mariner and sentence the Mariner to a FateWorseThanDeath repeatedly.
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* HopeSpot: The Mariner notices a ship coming along and hails it, thinking that it is coming to the aid of the Mariner and his crewmen. It turns out that the ship is manned by Death and Life-In-Death, who promptly take the lives of all but the Mariner and sentence the Mariner to a FateWorseThanDeath repeatedly.FateWorseThanDeath, respectively.
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* TheUndead: Upon paying penance for his crime, the souls of his crew rise from their corpses and sail the Mariner's ship to land before fading away. It is also insinuated that the Mariner has been rendered if not undead then incapable of dying in order to tell his tale to as many as he can.
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* TheUndead: Upon paying penance for his crime, the souls of his crew rise from their corpses and sail the Mariner's ship to land before fading away. It is also insinuated that the Mariner has been rendered rendered, if not undead undead, then incapable of dying in order to tell his tale to as many as he can.
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* DiabolusExMachina: Things go south rapidly after the Mariner kills the albatross, with the arrival of Death's ship being the final cruelty. This is balanced by the lengthy DeusExMachina that returns the Mariner to his home country.
* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: The Wedding-Guest interrupts the Mariner twice out of fear -- once when he thinks the man died with the crew and he's speaking with a dead man and then a second time when the bodies of the crew stand up to sail the ship. The Mariner reassures him that 1. he's not dead, and 2. the spirits that reanimated the crew were benevolent, possibly even angels.
* {{Lunacy}}: The Moon is almost a character in her own right, seeming fairly benevolent compared to the cruel Sun.
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* SoleSurvivor: The Mariner is the only member of his crew to survive.
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* SoleSurvivor: The Mariner is the only member of his crew to survive.survive, through the CruelMercy of Life-in-Death. However, his safe return to land is by fairly blatant divine intervention.
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* DemBones: DEATH is a skeleton.
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* DemBones: DEATH is a skeleton.skeleton; LIFE-IN-DEATH is either skeletally thin or an outright skeleton depending on interpretation.
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%%* FlyingDutchman: The Mariner.
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* GaiasRevenge: As a result of the Mariner shooting down an albatross.
* TheGrimReaper: He fails to collect the Mariner's soul, so it instead goes to [[FateWorseThanDeath Life-In-Death]]
* TheGrimReaper: He fails to collect the Mariner's soul, so it instead goes to [[FateWorseThanDeath Life-In-Death]]
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* GaiasRevenge: As a result of the Mariner shooting down an albatross.
albatross, the weather abruptly turns and leaves the ship in the doldrums. This effectively leaves them out on the open sea with no fresh water, no protection from the Sun's heat, and no way of reaching port.
* TheGrimReaper: DEATH. He fails to collect the Mariner's soul, so it instead goes to [[FateWorseThanDeath Life-In-Death]]
* TheGrimReaper: DEATH. He fails to collect the Mariner's soul, so it instead goes to [[FateWorseThanDeath Life-In-Death]]
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* {{Hypocrite}}s: The Mariner's crew start justifying his killing of the albatross; when things start to turn sour, they hang its carcass from his neck. Death promptly shows them the error in their ways.
* HopeSpot: The Mariner notices a ship coming along and hails it, thinking that it is coming to the aid of the Mariner and his crewmen. It turns out that the ship is manned by Death and Life-In-Death.
* {{Irony}}: The "Water, water, everywhere" verse is a famous example of situational irony.
* MysteriousAntarctica: The whole thing ''literally'' goes south because the Mariner's ship wound up hitting Antarctica. And then death's ship appears...
* HopeSpot: The Mariner notices a ship coming along and hails it, thinking that it is coming to the aid of the Mariner and his crewmen. It turns out that the ship is manned by Death and Life-In-Death.
* {{Irony}}: The "Water, water, everywhere" verse is a famous example of situational irony.
* MysteriousAntarctica: The whole thing ''literally'' goes south because the Mariner's ship wound up hitting Antarctica. And then death's ship appears...
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* {{Hypocrite}}s: The Mariner's crew start justifying his killing of the albatross; when things start to turn sour, sour and the ship is left in the doldrums, they hang its carcass from his neck. neck and curse him. [[EverybodyDiesEnding Death promptly shows them the error in their ways.
ways]].
* HopeSpot: The Mariner notices a ship coming along and hails it, thinking that it is coming to the aid of the Mariner and his crewmen. It turns out that the ship is manned by Death andLife-In-Death.
Life-In-Death, who promptly take the lives of all but the Mariner and sentence the Mariner to a FateWorseThanDeath repeatedly.
* {{Irony}}: The "Water, water, everywhere" verse is a famous example of situationalirony.
irony [[labelnote:*]]The Mariner and his crew are dehydrated and surrounded by water -- but it's ''sea'' water, which can't be drunk without making yourself thirstier at best (due to the salt) or making yourself severely ill at worst[[/labelnote]].
* MysteriousAntarctica: The whole thing ''literally'' goes south because the Mariner's ship wound up hitting Antarctica. And thendeath's Death's ship appears...
* HopeSpot: The Mariner notices a ship coming along and hails it, thinking that it is coming to the aid of the Mariner and his crewmen. It turns out that the ship is manned by Death and
* {{Irony}}: The "Water, water, everywhere" verse is a famous example of situational
* MysteriousAntarctica: The whole thing ''literally'' goes south because the Mariner's ship wound up hitting Antarctica. And then
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* ThePenance: The Mariner wears the dead albatross around his neck and is compelled to tell his story in order to atone for killing it.
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* ThePenance: The Mariner wears the dead albatross around his neck while aboard his ship, shedding it only when he recognises the value of life and is prays. Afterwards, he's compelled to tell wander from place to place endlessly, telling his story tale to those in order to atone need of wisdom as a means of atoning for killing it.his actions.
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* TooGoodToBeTrue and AGlitchInTheMatrix: The Mariner points out that there's something wrong with the way the unfamiliar ship is moving towards them, considering there's no wind, no tide and it's coming way too fast. As it gets closer, [[GhostShip it becomes clear that it shouldn't even be floating]].
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* TooGoodToBeTrue and AGlitchInTheMatrix: TooGoodToBeTrue: The Mariner points out that there's something wrong with the way the unfamiliar ship is moving towards them, considering there's no wind, no tide and it's coming way too fast. As it gets closer, [[GhostShip it becomes clear that it shouldn't even be floating]].
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->''"The Mariner, whose eye is bright,\\
Whose beard with age is hoar,\\
Is gone: and now the Wedding-Guest\\
Turned from the bridegroom's door.\\
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He went like one that hath been stunned,\\
And is of sense forlorn:\\
A sadder and a wiser man,\\
He rose the morrow morn."''
-->--The final quatrains of ''The Rime of the Ancient Mariner''
Whose beard with age is hoar,\\
Is gone: and now the Wedding-Guest\\
Turned from the bridegroom's door.\\
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He went like one that hath been stunned,\\
And is of sense forlorn:\\
A sadder and a wiser man,\\
He rose the morrow morn."''
-->--The final quatrains of ''The Rime of the Ancient Mariner''
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* CommonMeter: Throughout. If you want to make sure you can never take the poem seriously again, try singing it to "Yankee Doodle". Or the theme from ''Series/GilligansIsland''.
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* CommonMeter: Throughout. If you want to make sure you can never take the poem seriously again, try singing it to "Yankee Doodle". Or the theme from ''Series/GilligansIsland''. Or “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”
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* FromBadToWorse: After the Mariner kills the albatross, the ship is freed from the ice and carried north... and then becalmed, surrounded by sea monsters, haunted by the spirit of the albatross, and beset by a shipwreck where Death and Life-in-Death gamble for the lives of each of the crew.
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* TooGoodToBeTrue and AGlitchInTheMatrix: The Mariner points out that there's something wrong with the way the unfamiliar ship is moving towards them, considering there's no wind, no tide and it's coming way too fast.
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* TooGoodToBeTrue and AGlitchInTheMatrix: The Mariner points out that there's something wrong with the way the unfamiliar ship is moving towards them, considering there's no wind, no tide and it's coming way too fast. As it gets closer, [[GhostShip it becomes clear that it shouldn't even be floating]].
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[[caption-width-right:350:''And a thousand thousand slimy things\\
Lived on; and so did I.'']]
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* EldritchOceanAbyss: One of the first reasons the ship's stranding appears to be supernatural is that despite the lack of wind, the water appears to be boiling and ''rotten'' with undescribed {{Sea Monster}}s from its depths.
-->''Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs''
-->''Upon the slimy sea.''
-->''Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs''
-->''Upon the slimy sea.''
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%%* RamblingOldManMonologue: The entire poem apart from the framing device.
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