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You refer to The Ancient Mariner, hero of the narrative poem "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Our hero did indeed shoot an albatross and lived very much to regret it.

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Because albatrosses depend on the wind to fly and sailors depend on the wind to sail, the albatross became a good omen to sailors. The albatross features in a poem about what happened to a sailor when he killed an albatross. The poem is called 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'.


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they were angry with him at first but then they realized that the albatross brought the fog and were happy.


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Why did the wind stop blowing in the ancient mariner?

The sailors believed that an albatross brought fair winds.The Ancient Mariner killed the albatross and they blamed him for the lack of wind.For all averred, I had killed the birdThat made the breeze to blow.


How does the Albatross symbolize hope in the rime of the ancient mariner?

It came from nowhere, and it lead the ship and the crew to safety from the deadly storm near the start of the poem. It was considered their saviour. When the Ancient Mariner shot the Albatross, it was as if the Ancient Mariner shot their hope, and this was why he was punished cruelly. As soon as it died, the crew started to suffer from draught, and eventually has their souls stolen, which emphasizes what happens when they lose hope, and reiterates how essential the Albatross was.


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Shooting an Albatross is a term in which sport?

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What is the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner about?

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