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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, deals with the Mariner's alienation from the subsequent reconciliation with the natural world. The Mariner's shooting of the albatros suggests his alienation from natural life because the albatros is a symbol of good omen. As a result of killing the albatros only bad things will come. What seems to make the albatros fall from the Mariner's neck and leave him momentarily free is reconciliation, meaning a change from bad to good. This symbolizes that the Mariner has finally come to realize the natural life as well as the rest of his surrounding. The Mariner is alienated from the natural world because