The poem can be interpreted as a tale of crime, punishment and reconciliation, with the recovery of love in the blessing of the water-snakes (l. A tantalizing possible further source for the plot is the traditional poem known as the Scandinavian version of " A Wonderful Ballad of the Seafaring Men." However, even if Coleridge may be indebted to various sources, the poem's best images are his own inventions. The general outlines of the Mariner's experience derive from the story of the Wandering Jew and from one or more versions of the Flying Dutchman legend. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was composed in winter and spring 1797-98 and first published in Lyrical Ballads (1798) with the subtitle "A Poet's Reverie", in some measure maintained by the epigraph in later editions this is the revised version, to which the marginal glosses were added in 1817, when he included it in Sybilline Leaves, the archaic elements revised, and ten stanzas that had considerably elaborated the spirit of the crew were deleted.
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