The mariner’s shipmates condemn him for killing the Albatross. Read what happens next. (this is from gradpoint)


“Ah! well a-day! what evil looks

Had I from old and young!

Instead of the cross, the Albatross

About my neck was hung.”


In “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, why is the Albatross hung around the Mariner’s neck?


The Mariner thinks it looks better than a cross.


It is a reward for shooting the bird that was eating all the ship’s food.


The Mariner is trying to get the bird’s good luck.


It is a punishment for shooting the bird that brought the ship good luck.