Crime

• 'I shot the albatross'


  • line is abrupt and short like the act was
  • religious crime
  • killed one of gods creations
  • breaks thou shalt not kill
• 'alone alone all all alone'


  • isolated and made a pariah
  • form of punishment for his crimes
  • isolated BY nature as the crime was AGAINST nature
• 'With his cruel bow, he laid full low the harmless albatross' 


  • emphasises the scale of his crime
  • contrast between cruel and harmless
  • the albatross didn't deserve what it got
• 'Sweet bird'

  • albatross is an evident victim
• 'I had done a hellish thing'

  • acknowledgement of murder
  • shows guilt