The voice of a polar spirit says of this poem's protagonist, "The man hath penance done,/And penance more will do.
The voice of a polar spirit says of this poem's protagonist, "The man hath penance done,/And penance more will do." The evil deed causing the penance is partly expiated after the speaker retracts his earlier curse of the "slimy things" he sees in the ocean. Previously he had witnessed a game of dice between Death and Life-in-Death, with the former taking all his fellow sailors, while he is won by the latter and  doomed to continually tell his tale, as he does to the wedding guest. After suffering the torment of "Water, water, every where,/Nor any drop to drink," FTP the aged killer of an albatross spins his tale in what long poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
The voice of a polar spirit says of this poem's protagonist, "The man hath penance done,/And penance more will do.
rime of the ancient mariner