Romantic poets as well as painters like Caspar David Friedrich emphasized the natural world's majesty by dwarfing humans in comparison to it. Wordsworth's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" also exemplified the Romantic fascination with the holy in nature. The Romantics were some of the first poets to place a literary work's focus on the protagonist's empirical experience of the world, rather than on a didactic message (compared to, say, Spenser's The Fairie Queen). The Ancient Mariner tells his self-centered tale for a self-centered purpose: to allay his agonizing storytelling compulsion.
The poem is told largely from the Ancient Mariner's perspective, despite the minor involvement of a separate narrator, who describes the Ancient Mariner and Wedding Guest's actions. The most central of these is the subjectivity of experience and the importance of the individual. While "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" departed from Romantic stylistic tendencies, it exemplified many of the genre's themes. They also state directly that spirits, and not just nature, are responsible for punishing the Ancient Mariner and his shipmates. These explanations not only amplify the allegorical feel of the poem, but work in place of the omitted archaisms to establish a nostalgic, fictitiously historical mood. In the 1817 version of the poem, Coleridge added another layer to the poem in the form of marginal glosses. However, the pressures of the genre he was helping to define may have contributed to his ultimate decision to remove much of the archaism from the poem for several revisions in the early years of the 19th century. Coleridge maintained that his use of a loose rhyme scheme and archaic language in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" was deliberate and scholarly, intended to provoke thought about the use of such devices and invoke a sort of literary timelessness. The poem's first version went against the emerging Romantic tradition of writing in contemporary, unrhymed language, something Wordsworth championed in his "Tintern Abbey," also published in Lyrical Ballads. Nineteen years later, in 1817, he published an edited version of the poem in his collection entitled Sibylline Leaves. Purportedly, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" was to be a joint effort on both poets' parts Coleridge attributed the shooting of the albatross as well as several lines to Wordsworth. It was published anonymously - a move that contradicted its intensely personal and subjective contents. The collection's publication is often seen as the Romantic Movement's true inception. Coleridge first published his famous ballad, " The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", in Lyrical Ballads, his 1798 joint effort with his close friend and colleague William Wordsworth.
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