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Why did the mariner shoot the albatross in the poem “The rime of the ancient mariner”?

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Why did the mariner shoot the albatross in the poem “The rime of the ancient mariner”?

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Shooting an albatross during a ship’s voyage is considered bad luck by sailors. He shot the bird to spite the sailors and their superstitions. (The storm abates for a short period, but the ship runs across even worse peril.) However, in doing so, he harmed one of God’s creatures and had to pay the consequences for doing so by watching the eyes of the souls of the dead mariners float by him.