The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Creative Writing Activity triggered by Gustave Dorè’s prints

We have analysed the different textbook excerpts taken from the Rime of the Ancient Mariner.  On the basis of all the things you know now of the Rime, observe the following prints and write a dialogue between the different figures present in the print (both human, natural, supernatural, animate and inanimate).  Remember that you need to write the part of the narrator too.  Have fun and try to be as original and creative as ever! I count on that.  Looking forward to reading your “imaginative pieces!”

“The game is done! I’ve won, I’ve won!”
Quoth she, and whistles thrice.

The game is done

Each turned his face with a ghastly pang,
And cursed me with his eye.

each cursed me

And never a saint took pity on
My soul in agony.

and never a saint took pity on

 

106 Replies to “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Creative Writing Activity triggered by Gustave Dorè’s prints”

  1. Picture 1.
    Death and Life-in-Death are casting dice due to discover which of them will take possession of the Ancient mariner’s ship. The fate of the men is hanging by a thin thread.
    Life in death, with confident tone, said: “Ancient Mariner, look! This is your punishment for what you did. I am going to be the leader of this ship!” said she with confident tone.
    “We will see, my dear Death-in-Life” replied Death, “Now play so that I could rejoice”.
    The silence that lingers on the ship was interrupted only by the sound of the dice, that rolled along the slimy floor.
    “The game is done, I’ve won, I’ve won!” quoted she and whistles thrice.
    Death, disappointed, said: “It’s a bitter pill, but this is what fate decided”.

    Picture 2.
    Ancient Mariner: “ All my men are agonying, near to death, but their silence and their eyes is speaking to me. Oh no, cruel fate, why I have to stand all these guilts. I must see this horrible scene, becuase this is the punishment that God decided for me. I deserve it, I deserve it. No forgiveness for me, my admiral, I mock you with my selfishness and my irresponsability. And now, your weary eyes are meeting mine, which are dispersed in the extraordinaryinfinity of the sea. I was wrong, I didn’t know what to do, as if I were isolated all by myself.
    I don’t ask your forgiveness, becuase I imagine your ardent anger towards me, but I need to say thank you, my fellows.

    Picture 3.
    Ancient Mariner: “I am all alone with the collections of your death bodies, my men. No, don’t left me now, I can feel your souls, that still cursed me. I am alone in the sea, which has become my tomb. And never a saint took pity on, my soul in agony. This is what the fate decides and I must accept it. But God, take my soul too, this is my destiny, I hope it! It’s too late, but I regret for my past crime and I ask your forgiveness. Now, take my life and my soul, I invoke you. I am nothing now, no one will notice me and my disappearence, I was defeat by my egoism: punish me, my God, bring my soul with you.”

    Riccardo Sartori 5°F

    1. You say “to be in agony” or “agonise”.
      You have been extremely creative and your vocabulary use has been improved considerably. Thanks for always working hard, I really appreciate it.
      Another recurrent error is “to ask” when you should write “to ask for”
      You ask a question
      You ask for something (a favour, a piece of information, etc.)
      “egoism” means “egotism”, you wanted to write “selfishness”.

  2. Dialogue I^
    The two dices, Death and Life-in-death, are playing together in the ship.
    None person would ever meet them: they decide your future.
    They go around the world searching their new “victims”!
    If you hit on them, obviously you would throw them.
    This, is the mistake!

    One day, the ancient Mariner and his fellows are in the ship.
    They have neither food nor beverage. They see the dices.
    They want to play. They have nothing else to do and they want enjoying themselves.
    Every fellow launch the two dices one time.
    The ancient Mariner is the last one.
    He catch the dice. He throw them. He win!!!
    No! He lost!
    One dice shout out: “The game is done! I’ve won! I’ve won!”
    Quoth she, and whistles thrice.

    Dialogue II^
    The ancient Mariner was in the ship, and seeing his fellows, said:”Alas! I asked for that! I play at dice! I thought, I had won, but I didn’t know Those dices! And then I was here, looking my faithful fellows, complaining, barking, shouting at me: each turned his face with ghastly pang, and cursed me with his eye. I felt powerless. I felt helpless. I felt impotent in front of Those great faculty! This is my punishment! This is God penance for me!”.

    Dialogue III^
    The ancient Mariner is surrounded by his fellows’ dead bodies.
    He is alone! All alone in the wide sea!
    He is suffering a lot: for his fellows, for the Albatross, for having played at dices and for having decided his destiny! He thought about all his adventure: he thought how lucky he had been.
    He thought about his fellows, that helped, taken care, attended, accompanied and followed him ever! And he constantly suffering more and more!
    He thought about the adventure, the beautiful Nature, Death, Life-in-death, God and the Moon!
    And he is steadfastly bleeding for!
    He thought about his family, that he doesn’t have, and that he never will have!
    And he is ceaselessly aching for!
    And never a saint took a pity on his soul in agony!

    He thought no more!
    Farewell, farewell ancient Mariner!

    Mattia Pizzutti 5^F

    1. “Dice” is already plural, so no “s”.
      I am happy with the results of your creative piece because I know you did you best. If possible, try to leave some time for proofreading, that would help you spot some mistakes and correct them.

  3. Picture 1
    As the skeleton- ship approached, the whole crew was relieved by a sense of hope and persuaded with a joyful feeling, a bliss that they could not compare to anything else. They were not aware of the fact that Death and Life-in-Death were the only crew of that eerie ship! The astonished crew remained still, motionless as the two disgusting creature paced the deck a few times, staring at the expressions of terror on the faces of the sealers
    Death entertained himself with two dice, while Life-in-Death was watching the sea thoughtful.
    <> said she.
    Suddenly Death ceased playing with the dice and grinned. A light of excitement appeared in his eyes.
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    Life-in-Death smiled back at him and spoke with an unexpectedly soft voice.
    <>
    <>
    Life-in-Death seemed disappointed. She was greedy and narcissist and she wanted to have the pleasure to torture the poor sinner.
    <>
    She wait, with a shiver of excitement, but then with a giggle, she shouted
    <>
    Then she started whistling. Death was disappointed. “not that bad” he thought, and with a glance the whole crew felt dead.

    Picture 2 – 3
    The ancient mariner was standing on the deck, with the enormous albatross fastened around his neck. He was watching the see. All of his mate were lying dead on the floor and all were overwhelmed in an atmosphere of desolation and death.
    He glanced at the albatross, then at his mate and then again, his eyes fixed on the the huge animal. He suddenly felt guilty.
    <>

    Pavan Sara V H

    1. Interesting. I expected to read some dialogue too, but you seem to have misunderstood the assignment. You wrote the narrative parts only. Did you do it on purpose to have Life-in-Death as a SHE and Death as a HE? Why? I am curious to know 😉

  4. Picture A
    The skeleton-ship floated near the doomed vessel. Two women were standing, one was hiding her face under a hood but still it was possible to distinguish her deathly features; the second was beautiful, but if you looked more carefully you could spot that she had in her a putrifying beauty.
    Indeed they were sisters: Death and Life-in-death.
    “Speak, my faithful fellow as we need to split the destinies of these ungrateful men.”
    “Time has come. Throw the Dice and let the Fortune decide.”
    “Thus who will win shall have the ship’s crew souls.”
    The Dice were cast, the wood of the deck resounded, the game was played.
    “Very well sister, the crew is mine!” said Death.
    Life-in-death smiled “Once again, fate had made a wise decision: the Mariner shall have a grater punishment. He will survive his friends, his enemies, all of humanity and suffer from loneliness and immortality. He will be ruined for his actions, but he is no more the judge..he can neither decide to live nor to die. His soul belongs to me!”

    Picture B
    The crew was dying, suffering from the heat of the equatorial sun. Suddenly the voice of the hooded woman whispered inside their heads, warning them of an imminent death. The very last sigh of their souls were addressed to the Mariner. Every single eye of the men collapsed on the deck cursed the only living thing still alive, and, if they could, they would have cursed him even more.
    Albatross “You are the symbol of evil, you have killed me, the bird of good omen, doomed your men to hell and yourself to a more painfull end.”
    Mariner ” I’ve brought distruction, no living person can save my soul, no redemption shall be granted.”

    Picture C
    “You, man without a soul, shall suffer for an infinite lifetime…” said one of the floating spectres “…you have played God and now you will be punished..” continued another phantom “..our souls will hear the echos of the prayers of our loved ones..” “…but you shall never find peace.”
    One by one, each member of the ship, before leaving the world of the living, passed the judgement and like a roaring mist it dissolved away in the wind.

    1. This is the Rossana I love most! You wrote incredibly well and I am happy to see you did something with passion (at least I hope you did!). Well done, my dear young woman. Well done.

  5. DICES/LIFE-IN-DEATH

    L: now I am going to cast you to the floor, please do not disappoint me, I want to win!
    D: you have nothing to worry about, our Mistress! we know how it works: you shake us three times then we spring out the tin and land as you prefer.
    L: excellent, my faithful friends! And now go and make me proud!
    D: three, two, one.. Jump out!

    ALBATROSS/DEAD SAILORS

    A: no! no! you are not convincing at all, feed your eyes with more curse!
    S: we are doing our best!
    A: I bet you can do better than it! You have to strike terror into him, to choke him with desperation and pain!
    S: ok, listen men! Open your eyes the more you can and stare at the Mariner ‘till he gets mad!

    A SOUL/A DEAD SAILOR

    S: goodbye damned body! Now I am free and you cannot forbid me!
    D: no! come back here! I am your prison, you are my convict!
    S: ahahah! I wish with all my heart you perish in agony and feel the same pain I used to bear behind your grates!
    D: do not fly away, do not abandon me! My destiny must be your one too!

    1. Very original Giulia. I loved the idea of having the dice interact with Life-in-Death. You are the only one, so far, who has come up with this great idea. I loved it! You did not write the part of the narrator, but I am happy with the results you achieved!

  6. DIALOGUE 1.
    Death and Life-in-death arrives to the vessel.
    – Hello ancient mariner, you do not know us but we know you. I am Death and she is Life-in-Death. You should know why we are here. You killed the albatross, bird of good omen which was here to help you. You despises life killing it, so we will play a game: if I win you are going to die like the other sailors, if she win you are going to be a living dead… But all is in your hands, because you are the one who will roll the dice. Will luck be by your side? Live or die, is your choise.
    – What number should I do? – Questionned the ancient mariner.
    – If you do the number 1 you will remain alive, but as a living dead.
    – But that is impossible. The dice are 2. It won’t never come out the number 1.
    He cust the dice… Suddenly 1 die becomes all white and in the other appears just one dot.
    – I won!!!!!!!!! – Said the ancient mariner not believing his eyes.
    He did not realize that his destiny was written.

    DIALOGUE 2.
    The ancient mariner watching the sky almost as if he invoked the gods, began saying:
    – What did I do? For what absurd reason I decided to kill the albatross? And why my mistake should be paid by the other sailors? What curse is attacking this vessel?
    Suddenly a voice from the sky said:
    – This is the consequence for killing the albatross, the bird of good omen. You do not deserve the death, it would be too simple. What you deserve is to be surrounded by dead so that, when you will look around, you will reflect upon your mistake and ask for forgiveness each moment of your life. Who does not appreciate the gift of life and kills without thinking or consequences, does not deserve to live without pay. Remember that only you can save your teammates and yourself. The albatross will be hung with a noose around your neck: If you will understand the mistake you have committed and will tell your story so that it will serve as an example, then the noose will loosen itself. If you will not be able to do it, then the weight of the albatross will increase, because the weight of the dead sailor’s corps will make the albatross heavier and you won’t be able to carry out your job and… You will die and all of your souls will be damned forever.

    DIALOGUE 3.
    The albatross appears hung in the ancient mariner’s neck and his sailors begin to die.
    – What do I have to do? How can I tell my story if I am isolated in this vessel?
    – All the answers are inside you. You will know what to do when you will understand your mistake. Remember, time flows: live or die? – Said the voice from the sky.
    The ancient mariner began to steer the vessel with the albatross on his neck. He was ready to go on and face a new trip.. Will he save him and the sailors’ souls?

    1. Your “pieces” reveal a good grasp of the Rime and I am happy to see this. You could improve your performance, though, by focussing more on accuracy. There are lots of mistakes you could easily avoid if only you allotted some time to proofreading.

  7. Image 1

    It seemed like the night would never have passed
    All around was still and sultry
    The haze reigned.
    The sailors were lying on the deck with dry throats
    Then a ship: Safeness! They thought
    But they didn’t know…

    DEATH : Come on! Here we are, let’s cast the dice!
    LIFE-IN-DEATH: Wait, don’t be impatient… Before we have to set the conditions: if I win I will have the mariner and you the crew, and vice versa. I will be the first one to do it. Yeah.. Mine will be an endless punishment.
    DEATH: That’s fair. But don’t be too excited, take a deep breath and calm down, I will be the winner. If I defeat you, he will not certainly rest in peace anymore.

    They threw the dice.

    DEATH: Damn!
    LIFE-IN-DEATH: The game is done! I’ve won! I’ve won

    Quoth she and whistles thrice.

    Image 2

    Only fear could you have seen on their faces
    Anguish, desperation and in the end
    Death.
    One after one they collapsed on the ground
    But their eyes were fixed on him, the guilty one.

    ANCIENT MARINER: No, wait, wait! I didin’t want this to happen. Why all my fellows are dying? They didn’t do anything!
    ALBATROSS: And I? Was I not an innocent? I came here to save you, I was here as a response of your prayers. And you, ancient mariner, what have you done to me? You killed me. Why?
    ANCIENT MARINER: I don’t know… I did a senseless action, I went against nature. I was not clear headed and now I will regret it for my entire life and beyond.

    Image 3

    He were surrounded by corpses of people who in the last years have become his family. He loved them and now they were dead because of his foolish mistake.
    Their souls began to ascend to the sky: they were magnificent but so far sad.

    SOULS: You sentenced us to death, you are the reason why we couldn’t have lived.
    ANCIENT MARINER: I beg your mercy. I am desperate, I can’t forgive myself for what I’ve done. What can I do now?
    SOLUS: Stop crying for us. Your fate is far more horrible than our. At least we will be in peace in heaven, while you, you’re doomed to wander this world forever.

    The souls disappeared and he remained alone, seated in a corner of the big ship.

    1. Elisa, I loved your pieces. Original, I could read them easily since they flow smoothly. Well done, my dear.

  8. DIALOGUE 1:
    The endless game/battle between Life and Dreath continues undeterred,
    sometimes wins Death and sometimes Life, but this time there is something else…
    Life: ” The mariner is alive, so he is my property, you can not win this fight!
    Death:” You are right, sooner or later he will be mine, but I know that he
    would suffer more surviving than dying, so for this time I am with you,
    or better, I always choose for a suffering end!
    Life: “For the first time we agree, we should note it!
    But my intention is not to make him suffer, I just want him to be a witness for all humans
    and to make them understand that their are not indispensable for this planet
    because they are not more important than other living beings!
    Death: ” Just only loving more life that they will hate more death!”

    The mariner is all alone with an albatross hanging on his neck…
    Mariner: “Can you leave me, please?”
    Albatross: ” Believe me, I hate you back, so do not ask me to leave you,
    because was not a choise of mine to live the rest of my life with
    my potential murder. You did the disaster, now you have to find
    a solution! So harry up man!!”
    Mariner: “God, please! Help me, was not my intention to kill it..
    Albatross: “Why you did it???”
    Mariner: ” Can you please let me pray?”
    Albatross:” Are you stupid? I am under your neck you can not pretend that
    I am not here, and when I listen something wrong beacuse I know
    that for you and your silly friends was just a game, you did
    it just for killing time, and you can not escape from your punishment
    just saying sorry my dear!”
    Mariner: ” I am speechless, I do not know what to say, I committed a huge
    mistake, and now I can not do anything except saying you SORRY!”

    DIALOGUE 3:
    The souls of the other sailors flutter up to the sky….
    Mariner:”I only want to die now, I need to die now, I can not efford
    this any longer, it is enough for me. I would like to be like them
    to rest in peace, I do not want to feel this agony!
    What a wonderful miracle is happening? What a peace there is
    outside, instead, inside me there is just chaos, mournfulness!”

    1. In your first creative piece I enjoyed reading an evironmentally-friendly touch to the story! I am happy with your efforts. You can improve grammar and spelling if you wish. Remember: “cannot” is one word!

  9. Image 1)
    “Death and Life-In-Death are thrilled. They have the power to decide who will be safe and who will be cursed for eternity.
    They just have to cast dice..”

    Death: Come closer. Listen to me very carefull. Here we decide desitiny. So..If I win, the mariner will be mine, and the crew will be yours.

    Death in life: No way. I want the mariner. I want the one who killed the albatross. I am the one that deserve him. I wanna see him fighting and suffer every single day for his mistake. No pity for him!

    Death: I want the mariner! He is mine!

    Death in life: Well then… If you win, the mariner will be yours, i can assure it to you.
    I am so sure i will win, that i can admit it.

    Death: you fool! Don’t think you are so strong! I will have the mariner because I will win!

    Death in life: then, let me see! Cast your dice (I will win!)

    “Death cast dice and she loses”

    Death: Damn, you cheated!
    Death in life: no the dice have been cast and I won. The mariner is mine!!

    Image 2)
    The sky was dark, the moon was afraid to shine that dreary night.
    The ship was silent. A creepy hush stand above everyone. The ancient mariner was still, surrounded by his crew. Their eyes were full of detestation, distress and desperation.
    They were all looking at him with hate.

    Mariner: Alas, I am damned!
    Seaman: Thou are, cursed and damned for eternity!
    Mariner: Hush, do not say those words!
    Look at thou, the eyes are agonizing, the lips are blak! Thou are not alive anymore!
    Seaman: I am alive enough to know, thou killed the albatross, thou deserve to suffer. Not me, not them around us!
    Mariner: Fool me, i’ve killed our hope
    Seaman: Thou deserve to suffer! Thou deserve to suffer!

    “Slowly all the seamen stand up and go around The Mariner, staring at him with their eyes, that were almost gone.
    Each turned his face with a ghastly pang, and cursing The Mariner with his eyes”

    Image 3)

    The souls of the crew went away, rushing like wind from the floor up in the sky, lefting The Mariner alone.
    He is looking above with agony, no word was enough to explane his sorrow and his fear.
    He was alone, completely alone in the middle of nowhere.
    All around him water, water and only water.

    Mariner: I can’t! I can’t endure this! I am screaming and no one is listening!

    “A soul whistle something to him”

    Soul: you are not alone here, you see? There are all of our dead bodies! They are the symbol of your action against nature, they are your punishment!

    Mariner: but I am suffering! My soul is in agony! What shall I do?

    Soul: Nothing, all of your efforts will be vain! Not even a saint will took pity on you!

    “And while rushing away she keeps on repeatin:”
    Soul: Alone, all alone and hopeless. All alone and hopeless!!

    1. Lovely the idea of “the cheating” when casting dice. You made me smile.
      Three wonderful pieces of creative writing. You worked hard and I appreciated it. Thanks for putting so much passion into the things you do. There are a few mistakes, but they do not spoil your writing, enriched by a vast range of words (not generally used by other students!).

  10. DIALOGUE 1

    “Mate” says the first “what’s the stake?”
    “Not interested in” replies the second
    “I was thinking about going on strike.”
    Then the first, which to the second is bound,
    tries to cheer up his friend of disgrace:
    “This time it seems to be fast;
    neither more nor less than our duties of the past;
    now come on, mate, and follow my pace.”
    Then the first jumps, and dig out a number.
    “We’re servants of children left alone in a chamber;
    let’s take the spin to decide the fate of this crew.”

    The Death and the Life-in-Death play dice.

    DIALOGUE 2

    While the men are suffering eternal witnesses
    of yernings start chatting of those similar scenes.
    FIRST STAR “Each turned his face with a ghastly pang,
    And cursed me with his eye, thus he spoke that Ancient Mariner”
    SECOND STAR: “Ancient that man, so far away from his grave?
    He had not seen more than what is in front of him,
    and makes of his few dead fellows cause of such an agony.
    We’ve seen indeed thousands of them and others vanish
    in a hearthbeat of us, and we’ve seen them becoming yellish
    and naked of their skin; did we cry, did we produce such a terrible noise?
    Please turn to him and pray the man to be quiete in the night.”
    FIRST STAR: “Time passes but it dare not teach you its own worth;
    and as long as we’re here I didn’t ever listen to your words of pity.
    Let me say, that man should be called Ancient just because of the pain in his eyes
    and the curse on his neck; and anything we’ve seen or will ever see
    could ever enlighten us what a sufference it has to be to him.”

    DIALOGUE 3

    Life is gone from the bodies of humankind, from all but one;
    and to this one the men who were adress their last thought.

    “Farewell! We leave you, and in you the last of the crew
    whom these eyes will ever behold. Farewell, Ancient Mariner!
    Lucky you, you will be; cursed you, who alone across this land of water
    will complain about his destiny. Either feeling guilty either feeling victim
    life will not be gone from you until your redemption will be done;
    towards us your last thought is going to be, and our spirits will sleep in peace.
    Farewell.”

    1. Sara, the writer in you struck again! I loved certain passages, especially the explanation of the why the mariner is called “ancient”. I appreciated your attempt to write using refined words.

  11. Dialogue 1.
    A strange ship approaches to the vessel. When it neared, the Ancient Mariner could see that it was a ghost ship manned by Death, in the form of a skeleton and Life-In-Death, in the form of a woman. At first the sailor is hopeful but then realizes that the creatures that are casting dices are discussing his fate and that of his crew.
    Death: Look at this sailor, he is just petrified of what we are going to do.
    Life-in-Death: Next time he will think twice before killing the Albatross, bird of good omen, sent by God to help him and his crew in the difficult situation they were stuck into.
    He defied Life, so now we are responsible to decide for them.
    Death: But what does the crew have to do with it?
    Life-in-Death: Absolutely nothing. If you are not happy of what God has commanded you to do, that is not my problem. Now we must play.
    ..
    Life-in-Death: I have won! Now the Ancient Mariner will pay for the terrible act he committed.

    Dialogue 2.
    All members of the crew were dying one by one and the sailor could not do anything but wander desperate around his ship full of death with the albatross dangling from his neck.
    The Ancient Mariner (addressing to the sky) : Please no. It is not fair that for my stupid act innocent people have to die. Regret, my own consciousness is killing me. Stop their deaths and I will pay all my faults. No more innocents will the sky resumes.

    Dialogue 3.
    Almost all his fellow of adventurers are dead. Overcome by despair, the Ancient Mariner sees all the souls flying away from that damned ship and starts crying.
    Taking note of him a soul comes back for a moment and whispers: Stop being desperate. We died because of a reason: to make you understand the mistake you committed. Now you have to reflect to deserve the forgiveness of God, who will maybe be clement with you.

    1. You are always so silent and quiet in class, but when you write your words are powerful and your ideas beautifully rendered. 🙂

  12. 1.
    Death and Life-in-death: “We are approaching, silly men, and your destiny is in our hands!”
    Death: “I’ll take the mariner, you can have his fellows ”
    Life-in-death: “I want him too…let’s cast the dice and the destiny will decide”
    Death: “No way! I know you are a great cheater”
    Life-in-death: “So you will cast it and I will just watch. I won’t cheat, I promise”
    Death: “Ok, I trust you. Give me the dice”
    Death casts the dice and Life-in-death wins
    Life-in-death: “The game is done! I’ve won! I’ve won!”
    2.
    The Mariner is watches his fellows and most of them have died, after coursing him with their eyes.
    Mariner: “God, why?They didn’t do anything, it was me who killed the albatross! I don’t know why I did it, I just didn’t reflected before doing that silly thing. Take me and let them live, they are not guilty, I am!”
    God: “They are guilty because at first they blamed you in rder not to be blamed if something happened, not because they understood what you did and after some time that nothing happened they forgave you. You deserve all this: you killed the bird of good omen without a reason. Watching them coursing you before dying is only a little part of your punishment. You will have to tell everyone what you did.”
    3.
    The souls of the Mariner’s crew are flown away and only one remains.
    Mariner: “Jack please, at least you, forgive me, you know I feel guilty for what I did”
    Jack’s soul: “You made all us die and you don’t even have a good explanation for it, you deserve our hate”
    Mariner: “I was not thinking and I did the most stupid thing I could do, but please, you were my best friend, I need it from you”
    Jack’s soul: “I can’t, I’m sorry”
    The Mariner is desperate and can’t do anything but follow his destiny.

    1. I smiled when I read the sketch between Death and Life-in-Death. It highlights the situation men find themselves in: they are at the mercy of powers they cannot control at all. I also appreciated the dialogue between one of the mariner’s souls and the Mariner. I find it original. Try to improve your accuracy, your written skill will certainly benefit from it.

  13. Dialogue n.1
    Death: Why should you take the soul of this mariner?
    Life-in-death: Because he has killed the albatross,the bird of good omen and with him all sailors. He must pay for what he has done!
    Death: Yes, but Lucifer is waiting for him in the ethernal place of sadness. He wants to torture him!
    Life-in-death: This punishment is not enough for his guilt, he must pay before diing too…
    Death: I have a good idea,we can play with dice, the winner will gethis soul!
    Life-in-death: I approve your great idea, so what are we waiting for?! I’m impatient of getting his soul!
    Death: So we can start…
    Life-in-death: Oh,you have lost…I was right!
    Now Ican take him with me.
    Dialogue n.3
    Ancient mariner: Oh, what have I done? I am a monster, a terrible creature…I cannot recognize myself anymore!
    Souls: Yes, you are only a cruel and selfish man…
    Why have you killed our albatross?
    Ancient mariner: I’m not be able to remember why, but I did it…
    and this is enough…
    Souls: You have committed a crime against nature and for this reason you must be condemned!
    Ancient mariner: You are right, but you have forgotten something…you are condemned just like me…the spell has benen done!
    Souls: You must broken it, it is the only way to free our souls and yours…
    Ancient mariner: Yes , but I do not know what can I do…
    Souls: So you must suffer a lot and than you will be thrown in hell’s flames.
    Paradise is definitely lost for you!

    1. I liked the reference to Lucifer waiting for the Mariner. You are the first one who has mentioned this and since it did not come up in the other creative writing pieces, I found it effective, original. Mind your grammar.

  14. 1. death: now I will bring him with me in hell!
    Life in death: not yet we have to play the game and the winner will take him!
    Death: it has no sense because God want him to hell!
    Life in death: we will see it, now let’s play!
    Life in death won..
    Life in death:I won I won! now I will make him suffer hellish pain in life!

    2. Albatross s soul : what did you do stupid human being?! you killed me! you killed god s creature!
    Mariner: what? are you speaking?! How?
    Albatross s soul: I am the soul of the albatross, I want to tell you that you. Have to suffer in life too much now for having killed me! Your life will became a hell and you will pray for dying!
    Mariner: but I didn’t want to make such a big mistake! I do not deserve it!
    Albatross s soul: you have to pay! Even for the sailor s deaths!

    3. God: you have killed my beautifullest creature! Why? There was not a reason!
    Mariner: oh Lord! I don’t know why I done it but I didn’t want, it was an enormous mistake!
    God: your words have no sense for me now! Stop talking! I don’t want to hear you!
    Mariner: how can I be forgiven, my Lord?!
    God: you will see it soon! Now the only thing that you have is the prayer!

    1. Nice point: the dialogue between the albatross’s soul and the mariner.
      However, in the last etching you mention God, though God does not appear. You should have written: the Mariner raises his eyes to the sky and hears the voice of god blasting at him (though this departs from the text!). Mind your grammar 😉

  15. Dialogue 1

    Such creatures could not but appear to me when the day was well nigh done, and fire was embracing me.
    Such a woman would have made my blood burn, if she had not have looked like a leprosy: poets had made me dream of red such red lips and curls of gold. But instead she thickened my blood with cold.
    Alas, and what was she saying to the Death?
    “My fellow, the man you see on that ship-she whispered- I want him: for he violated God’s messenger of good omen”.
    Death answered: “Should he not die instead? He would suffer horrible tortures from now and woe would persecute him forever”.
    “This is not enough: life in Death will oblige him to tell his crime anyone and his punishment will be even worse”.
    “Let us cast dice then, and be careful not to load them: for if you do, you will lose all your power and your seductive and cruel looks.”
    “Let us do it, and be it what destiny wants.”
    As I heard this being uttered, my heart started to leap up, for I was praying not to Be punished by that leprosy, but rather to die that self-same moment.
    And then, HER VOICE.
    “The game is done. I’ve won, I’ve won!”
    Quoth she, and whistles thrice.

    Dialogue 2

    Horned Moon, I beg you: will you save me from this curse?
    So she answers: “My poor Ancient Mariner, all I can do is climb up the sky accompained by my maids, ordering them to remain dim, for their light would prevent me, like a blind old queen with weary eyes, from Being able to observe you and your fellows.”
    The bright star near her: “My fair queen, how can you not listen to that star-crossed Mariner Who committed a crime without Being conscious of it? I am the brightest of your maids, and the oldest too: trust me then, he is to be pitied”
    “I definitely take pity on him: but, if sky knows no Death, earth and fish and men DO know her instead.”
    In that very moment, each of my two hundred companions, Who had not noticed my lunar and hopless conversation,
    turned his face with a ghastly pang
    And cursed me with his eye.

    Dialogue 3

    “How can I Believe you, old wise and insane man, When you say you are a living body?” The listener dared ask.
    “I was the only living man in that ship, and I will live forever trying to persuade people of my Being alive.
    Shall my slinky hand not deceive you: if you beat me, thou sceptic Wedding-Guest, I will get hurt.
    I was alone: living friends and spiritual guides had abbandoned me:
    For never a saint took pity on
    My soul in agony.”
    “And where was the albatross then?” The stunned man asked.
    “Alas, the Albatross was not hanging overhead motionless upon the air anymore, for I had condemned him to Death, offended his divine and innocent essence.
    He was still hanging, but from my neck, until he fell off free, and sank like lead into the sea, deep beneath the rolling waves and labyrinth of coral caves.”

    (Quotation from Pink Floyd’s “Echoes”)

  16. 1)
    Suddenly, the old man stopped telling his tale, as far as he saw a ship approaching from a long distance, among the putrescent waters. The parched crew felt relieved at first, but they did not kmow what would have happened.
    Their enthusiastic celebration turned into the most dreadful nightmare they could have ever imagined: as long as the ship came close, they recognized it was a floating skeleton. Aboard, two mysterious figures. The first one, a veil-covered character, was standing still, while the second one, a beautiful woman, crawling on her knees, casted dices. The atmosphere was so creepy and silent, that the mariners could hear clearly the two strangers speaking.
    “We should make a deal.”, said the unknown figure, “You cast these dices. If odd, I choose. Instead, you win”.
    “Alrighty,then”, answered back the woman with a sadic smile on her pale face and cast the three dices she was holding on her skinny hand.
    To her joy, 666 was the resulting number. “The game is done. I’ve won, I’ve won!” said she and whistled in sign of victory three times.

  17. 1.…“The game is done! I’ve won, I’ve won!”
    Quoth she, and whistles thrice…
    And the two dices speak to each other:
    “Oh, poor man…now begins for him the torture…”
    “Yes, but this is only his fault; he wanted this through the killing of the albatross. Why should he have done it? He overcame nature limits and didn’t respect its laws. He decided the death of an innocent creature!! Now he must pay and the only way to understand his terrible crime is this punishment.”
    “But death also is a right and fair punishment anyway, isn’t it?”
    “No, it isn’t. Death is “life” in comparison with life-in-death. It could be just a liberation and a relief. Even the hell is better than being possessed by this blood-curdling spectre!”
    “You are evil! He’s human and you know the famous Latin quote “errare humanum est”, don’t you?”
    “I know it and I know Latin, perhaps even better than you! But he made a mistake and…do you know the concept “ an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth”?”
    “This isn’t the solution! And the other mariners? They didn’t kill nobody and death takes them! Is it justice?”
    “They are his mates… All humans have to pay for something somehow. They think the whole world and in particular nature depend on them and they take everything for granted. They aren’t the kings of this existence! They have no power: they are simply insignificant. This “end” is the proof and they can finally understand…”
    2.…Each turned his face with a ghastly pang,
    And cursed me with his eye…
    Only the stars knew what the mariner could really feel in front of that terrible scene.
    “They are all dying!”- said a little star.
    And her mother-“This is the sign of the death, my baby.”
    “But where they go now?”
    “ They remain here for a short period to say good-bye to this world. Then she takes them down to the hell or up to heaven.”
    “And that mariner? He isn’t dying…Why does he still live?”
    “No, my baby, he doesn’t. It seems he still lives, but a worse force has taken him. Watching his mates’ death: this is a sign of the life-in-death. What an agonizing, cruel vision!”
    “Oh mom, if I could come down to save him!”
    “But you can’t; nobody can save him from this atrocity. He is the only one who can free himself…but for the moment he has to serve his fault.”
    “And he can’t save them as we can’t do the same with him, can he?”
    “Yes, little baby. He is “imprisoned” like us. He is forced to watch who he loves going away. This is because he has to learn the importance of love, not only for the family, friends, mates…but for everybody and everything, also for the animals, also for that albatross. There aren’t differences between men and the same occur with the other creatures. He didn’t save that albatross from his indifference and now he lives again the same incapability of reaction and action.”
    3. …And never a saint took pity on
    My soul in agony…
    The mariners’ spirits abandoned the ship. They were shaken, upset and disoriented. Incomprehension ruled their souls.
    One of them desperately asked -“ What happens? I can fly…I fly! Why I’m flying? Where are we going? Where is my body?”
    Another one – “We are dead, do you understand? Don’t you remember that terrible sensation under the bones before falling into the darkness?”
    “What?! It’s impossible!…I can’t be dead! And my family? What about my family? My son? My wife?”
    “Please, stop! Calm down! We are all dead! I have a daughter too! And just now I realize how important she is for me. I didn’t even say how much I love her! I thought I had still time…you and everybody did! We never think that this day could be the last one. Life is precious and we have waste it, here in this ship…far from home…I feel ashamed of myself.”
    “And the captain? Where is he? When I saw him for the last time he was watching me with horrified sight, like someone who sees a ghost…then the darkness…”
    “He isn’t with us…he isn’t dead…traitor! He led us to death!”
    “How can you say this?”
    “He killed that albatross and than those terrible figures…!”
    “Perhaps he’s passing through another experience, much more upsetting than this one…”
    “What could be more upsetting than death?!”
    “I don’t know, perhaps death itself in someone still alive…”

  18. “The game is done! I’ve won, I’ve won!”
    Quoth she, and whistles thrice

    They whispered amongst each other, Death and Life-in-Death, disregarding my presence. The wyrd of the ship was verily naught but a game to them, all of us are naught but their playthings!
    Thou can not understand how it felt to be that position. Expecting thy death, I troth, is verily poignant. I mourned the death of my crew, I wished for death, for the end of my suffering.
    Meanwhile Death and Life-in-Death played their last set of dice ad with a pounding heart I watched my wyrd disclose itself before my eyes.
    To my immense horror the spectre woman won. And eerie laugh escaped her bloody-red lips and she recited ” Ye art mine now Ancient Mariner! Thy shall ever forget the pain thee have brought upon thy self and thy crew! Naught will every bring you joy! And now fare thee well, my Ancient Mariner. Perchance we will meet again”.
    After that she vanished in thin air.

    Each turned his face with a ghastly pang,
    And cursed me with his eye.

    The corpse stared at the Ancient Mariner with his lifeless, beady eyes. The Ancient Mariner was surrounded by the dead bodies of his crew. He felt so much anguish for them but even more for himself, for the wyrd which he faces ad which he brought on them.
    Albeit these feelings he became daunted by their stares and suddenly he speaks: “I bid thee, cease my suffering, let me die! It’s unbearable!”
    But no one heard him, he was alone in the middle of the sea. No one could of ended his pain.

    And never a saint took pity on
    My soul in agony.

    A light mist rose from the deck and with it the Ancient Mariner heard between the wind’s gush, soft whispers: ” Ancient Mariner… Art thee suffering?”
    The Ancient Mariner looked around but he was all alone except for the corpses of his fallen crew.
    And again the voices whispered: ” It’s no use to you to look around. Thee is alone! All alone! Thy selfishness has left you alone. You have sentenced thy crew to death, men who have dedicated their life to thee!
    Thee shall be ashamed. Thee shall suffer. Thee shall not forget.”
    The Ancient Mariner fell to the ground, overwhelmed by the unceasing pain he felt and left hopeless by the fact that he knew it would never end.

  19. Thirst dialogue:
    Death and Life in Death are playing the whole ship crew’s life on the dice.What will happen? Whose life will be saved? The Ancient Mariner’s one or that of his shipmates? What will be the destiny of these men?

    Death : Who do you want to save?
    Life in Death: I don’t know who will belong to me. I just hope with all my heart to save the Mariner’s life.
    Death: Why do you say this? You won’t have the Ancient Mariner. I will have him!
    Life in Death: Look at the dice! Have you seen? I have just won. I’ve won! I wanted that the Mariner would belong to me, and so it is.
    Death: No, no! Why did Fortune want to prize you instead of me? Why did this happen to me? I should have had the Ancient Mariner! Me! Me!

    Second dialogue:
    Because of the Ancient Mariner’s act, all the other members of the crew will die. The Ancient Mariner is suffering for his shipmates. He knows, that who has to be punished it’s him, not their shipmates.

    Scared man : I don’t want to die, I don’t want! Death, you are right! I approved the horrible act the Mariner did, the shooting of the Albatross, but now I have understood: killing someone means to hurt a creature of God.
    Death: I appreciate your apology, but I can do nothing to change your destiny. You approved that act and now you must suffer for what you did.
    Scared man: No no, I want my life back, I want to live!

    Third dialogue:
    The crew’s souls are flying away from their bodies. The Ancient Mariner is suffering for their destiny.

    Death: Here I am. I have come to take the souls of your shipmates with me.
    Ancient Mariner: No, please! Take my life. I am the killer, I committed a dishuman act. They just supported me. I am the guilty one.
    Death: I can’t do what you are asking me. I can’t change their destiny. This time, Fortune have decided to prize you instead of them. You have to accept Fortune’s will.
    Ancient Mariner: Why, why? I must die, I must die! Oh my poor and innocent shipmates!

    1. Everything flows, so I did not have problems understanding what you wrote. Great! It is not easy to deal with creative writing, I know it, and you seem to have grasped the depth of the Rime and have overcome the challenge of writing about it in a “creative” way!

  20. 1) Life-in-death wasn’t happy with her existence because she didn’t decide it by herself and she found herself living a “life” that she never expected to; She spoke to the death while touching her gold locks and said with rancor:“Since I didn’t chose my life…I deserve that man. I want him to suffer as much as i did so that someone understands what it means to live this way”.
    Death looked at the woman and said:”I don’t care about your feelings, you miserable woman! the soul of THAT mariner is as important to you as it is to me. Let the dice decide the fate of this man!”
    At that very moment the two rolled the dice and..”the game is done! I’ve won, I’ve won” quoth she, and whistles thrice.

    2)Death and Life-in-death played with the life of the Ancient Mariner and the one of the rest of the crew; the mariner felt guilty and powerless seeing that the faces of the sailors turned with a ghastly pang and cursed him with their eyes. The weight of the albatross became suddenly more agonizing and the man referred to it. “How can I repair what I did? Would the soul of my mates forgive me? Please Albatross speak to me, speak to me.”The mariner was surprised by hearing the answer of the albatross who said:”Their souls now are free but you will live forever with regrets and pain, you chose to go against nature and now you have to live with your mistakes”.

    3)The Ancient Mariner found himself surrounded by corpses and water.
    MARINER: “alone, alone, all, all, alone, alone on a wide, wide sea! And never a saint took pity on my soul agony”
    SEA:”How can you beg for pity, you Ancient Mariner? You didn’t have it with the Albatross you killed and now you don’t deserve any mercy”
    MARINER:”Oh sea, I knew the answer before hearing it but my heart can’t stop the pain and I can’t free my consciousness from the guilt”
    SEA:”Since your punishment will last forever and ever you’d better stop thinking about what you did and start thinking on the redemption of your sins”
    MARINER:” I accept my punishment and I swear I will star appreciating the creatures of God more than I did in the past”.

    1. I can see your English has improved a lot (hopefully you wrote everything by yourself, otherwise this comment of mine may make you smile!) and I am happy you have tried to do your best through a piece of creative writing.

  21. The ship was moving and only a rustling sound and a smell of death was felt. It travelled at a few centimeters from water. The crew appeared to be formed by a gruesome figure seeming the Death, and a beautiful woman surrounded by an unnatural aura. The woman was holding two dice. When they arrived near the ship, where the dying sailors were lit with a light of hope, the woman said: “Your lives belong to us. We will throw the dice, and we will decide your fate”. Death nodded without speaking. The beautiful woman threw the dice in the air that with a flurry leaned on the wood of the ship. They did talk about fate: “The men who have made themselves complicit in the murder of an element of nature do not deserve to live. Despite not having killed the albatross, after a moment they rejoiced and are therefore guilty almost as much as the sailor who killed it.” Death smiled, it was a wicked and disturbing smile. It was not what Death had hoped for, but about two hundred souls had become of his property.
    The woman continued the speech made by the dice: “The sailors then are now the property of death. The only one who will survive, will be the one who killed the albatross. Under my control will continue to have the gift of life, but will suffer huge sufferings. ”
    After the speech the silence had become loud, almost deafening. All of a sudden it was broken by a bloodcurdling scream. Only one scream, made of hundreds of voices. It was a scream of terror. The mariners’ eyes were fixed on the man who had the albatross around his neck. They seemed to say:” why have we to endure such sufferings for you that remorselessly killed a divine creature? Why deserve we all this? Why do not you come with us to hell?” With their last strength they tried to grab him and take him with them, but they failed.
    Death began his work: the souls were beginning to come out of their bodies, and to make a macabre dance around the ship, and then point to the ghost ship where death awaited them. The souls, before leaving the ship that had once been their home, passed through the ancient mariner and let to him all the sadness that had pervaded the last days of their lives, until the culminating moment.
    The ship was a carpet of bodies abandoned in a hurry and left in unnatural positions. The silence was black, the non-existent breeze smelled of sadness. The ancient mariner was now alone in that huge ship. His heart was heavy. “Oh God, Why cannot I die like everyone else? Why do not you have mercy on your lost son? Lord, help me. I cannot carry this burden for the rest of my life ”
    The woman after the mariner’s speech said: “Your life will be eternal, and you will wander the world feeling the need to tell your story to any person you will meet on your way, just so you would have a bit of relief, that will however immediately vanish, so that you will forever seek for people who will listen to your story and understand your mistakes, trying not to commit them ever. ”
    The ancient mariner fell to his knees, his hands plunged in his hair, two hot tears rolled down his face. Then the darkness came.
    All around, the sea was calm and a hint of dawn peeked from the sea. Meanwhile, the ghost ship was no longer visible on the horizon, the sailor was still unconscious. The albatross was gone.

    1. The range of words you used in your creative piece is just above the level I generally find in a quinta. You did a great job. You did not stick to the rubric (writing three dialogues based on the three different etchings), but I appreciated the whole piece the way you wrote it. Evidently, you wanted to have a whole story, instead of chopping it up into three short anecdotes. There are some mistakes in the end, you mix up conditional type 2 and 1, not a big deal, but I could sense you were tired! When we lose our control of grammar it implies that we are tired and we cannot concentrate anylonger.
      You did a great job. I am proud of you!

  22. Picture 1
    The ancient mariner has killed the albatross, emblem of ospitality, and this is the reason why now he is dying with his crew without water or food.
    An unexpected new hope glitters in their weary eyes, when they see a ship getting closer to them. Expectation, frenzy, glee are filling their hearts.
    But then they see the Spectre-Woman and her Deathmate casting dice and they understand; their lives are no more under their own controll, what will fate make them?
    Redemption? Condemnation?

    Spectre-Woman: Bringing them into the fire of hell or making them live an eternal life with a destiny already written?
    Deathmate: Fate already knows. I want the older man, he has to pay personally for the unaccettable act.
    Spectre-Woman (after having won the older mariner): I won him! I will make him living without a purpose, without happyness, without lifeblood.
    Deathmate: The crew will die one after one, turning their faces to him and cursing him with their eyes.

    Picture 2
    The ancient mariner and his crew are dying without food or water. Two men from the crew start murmuring with their thirsty throats, the old mariner has to get closer to them for listening. They blame it all on him. He will have to pay in some ways.

    Mariner 1:Hear me captain, if I can call you yet in this way!
    Mariner 2: Don’t come closer to me for understanding what he is saying, or with my last strenghts I will choke you!
    Mariner 1: It is your fault, your fault! Why did you kill the albatross? I know the answer, don’t answer me or I will get angrier than a storm in an Ocean.

    Picture 3
    The mariner is alone on the ship.
    One after one the souls of the other mariners are leaving their corpses with him, but their souls are flying away to research the miracle remedy for their so agonized thirst, the water for their weakly souls.
    The old man is praying, crying loudly, but no one can hear him.

    Old man: God, please help me! Don’t leave alone my breakable soul or I will be damned for eternity. Can you hear my call? Can you answer me?
    I promise you I won’t make another terrible mistake.
    If only you could give me a sign, if only you could hear my wretched call.

    1. Really nice. There are some collocations you “created” I really liked, for example “wretched call”. At times, though, you cannot stretch language that much and there are expressions you “filled” too much with creativity of your own.

  23. 1)
    DEATH: ” So what you are thinking about, we divided the bodies in the right way? Because at the end most souls will go with me! ”
    DEATH-IN-LIFE: ” I have won, and it is a game! But you know what I am really thinking! It is always the same, you know that I hate my job, and take even one soul for me is terrible …I am too weak to do it, I feel so sorry for this poor souls! I perfectly know what a torture is to be death-in-life.”
    DEATH: “I know that you did not like what you are doing, but I can’t possibly understand the reason! We never spoke about nothing, but work!”
    LIFE-IN-DEATH: “It is the old story, I can only say that doing this things is my punishment for all sins I have commited in life. And I
    am forced to suffer with souls I take, forever and ever.”
    Narrator: the DEATH did not know what to say…they remain for a minute in silence, and then LIFE-IN-DEATH continue… “Anyway I must decide the punishment to the Ancient Mariner, poor stupid man, why he decided to shoot the creature of God?”
    DEATH:” We will never know it!”
    2)
    Each turned his face with a ghastly pang,
    And cursed me with his eye.
    THE ANCIENT MARINER: “Ohh, after these curses I will certainly not be able to survive!”, think Mariner.
    ONE OF THE CREW: “What have you done? Do you understand that it is your fault!?”
    THE ANCIENT MARINER: ” What is going on? why all my crew is dying, and I am still alive?…..and the albatross, why is it around my neck?”
    ONE OF THE CREW: ” Are you really so stupid?! We all hate and despise you! You killed the creature of God and all the crew is punished!”
    THE ANCIENT MARINER: ” It can’t be true! It was only albatross! And I did not want it to finish like this!”
    ONE OF THE CREW: “For your ignorance you do not love and do not understand the nature, and because of you, we all are going to die! This will be on your conscience forever! We HATE you!
    3)
    The Ancient Mariner remained alone, all his crew is dead and he is desperate!
    THE ANCIENT MARINER: ” Ohh…WHY their souls are going away…WHY I am still here… Is their any chance to change my destiny and the one of my shipmates? Could you take only me, and leave them alive, they have not any fault! It was all my guilt! Please, do not take them, take me!!!”, cried the old sailor agonized.
    DEATH: “Now the game is over. Everything is decided. and no one can change anything. I take your companions who come with me, instead you’ll have your own destiny.”
    THE ANCIENT MARINER: ” Oh no, do not leave me alone, take me too! I want to die, I can’t bear the weight of my sin. I do not want live anymore!”

    Semenyuk Iryna 5F

    1. Well done Iryna. I liked the way you rendered the crew’s anger and spite. They are really mad at the Mariner, aren’t they?

  24. I^DIALOGUE
    When dark was coming, the mariner and his crew got a glimpse of a ghost ship. In it there were Death and Life in Death and they were casting dice. Death exclaims “this is the moment in which the destiny will be established. Tricks are not allowed my dear, mind you! Otherwise, I’will not play with you anymore and I will catch them all only for me”. “ what are you saying? Am I a cheater? I cheated only when I thought the result of the game was wrong! I just want to take what I think belongs to me and in this case what I want is the mariner” “you cannot have always what you want, there is me too! Moreover last time I left you decide which souls you preferred. So, let’s play and see who is going to win who” “so fussy you are, Death!”. The dice are thrown and the winner is Life in Death. “ no, no, no! This can’t be true! You won once again! I’m tired of taking always those warm bodies and never a person with an important role. I’m done with you!” “Ah ah ah! The game is done! I’ve won, I’ve won!”Quoth she, the beautiful Life-in-death, and whistles thrice.
    II^ DIALOGUE
    The dice are cast. The destiny is established: the crew dies, the mariner lives. Suddenly the mariner saw all his shipmates falling down on the floor as if they all had pains in their bodies. “what is the matter with you all?! what is going on?” one of his shipmates answers “you condamned us to death when you killed the albatros, you made the biggest mistake ever, and now he have to pay for it”. The mariner does not understand what is happening. He looks around himself and sees al the corpses liveless. Now he realizes he is alone in the middle of the sea. “oh God, help me! What should I do know? What will happen to me in the future? I need somebody with me, I can’t go on without my crew. Death, you have been so un fair! They did no have anything to do with what happened”. Now the mariner is all alone, surrounded by corpses. Death is in the air.
    III^ DIALOGUE
    The mariner is all alone and he thinks of what he did “ I did a great mistake, I kill the albatros. I did something without thinking about the consequences, I just acted out of instinct. Now i will spend all my life trying to mend theese damages, not only, I will have to do something extraordinary in order to di eone day as my shipmates and finally rest in piece. So goodbye my friends, and see you soon!”

    1. The first dialogue is hilarious: Death is mad at Life-in-Death and she seems belittled by her “stronger” sister. The latter has always her way. Poor Death! She gets what her sister turns down.
      You did a good job and I am happy to see you tried to do your best.

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