...And ice, mast-high, came floating by, as green as emerald. At length did dross an albatross, through the fog it came; As if it had been a Christian soul, we hailed it in God's name." (The GHOST exits.) "And a good south wind sprung up behind; the albatross did follow, And every day,...

...here, the ice was there, the ice was all around: it cracked and growled, and roared and howled, like noises in a swound! At length did cross an Albatross,...round and round it flew. The ice did split with a thunder-fit; the helmsman steered us through! And a good south wind sprung up behind; the Albatross...

...sea-bird, called the Albatross, came through the snow-fog, and was received with great joy and hospitality. It ate the food it ne'er had eat, And round and round it flew. The ice did split with a thunder-fit; The helmsman steered us through! And lol the Albatross proveth a bird of good omen, andfolloweth...

...simplest level. One dimension of the Mariner's act is revealed at line 65, when he says of the albatross: As if it had been a Christian soul We hailed it in God's name. The reference is not merely allusive, but reveals the deeper subsuming aspiration of the poem. The...

...involved." Moreover, the bird is made to carry the associations of a man — the creature is humanized: "As if it had been a Christian soul, / We hailed it in God's name"; the bird becomes part of the ship's company, even attending "vespers nine." In Warren's words, "It...