Note the way that the theme of imprisonment enters this
            excellent poem immediately after the Mariner shoots the albatross. Note the way in which
            the action of the Mariner effectively imprisons the sailors on the ship, as the mystical
            absence of any wind prevents them from moving:
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Day after day, day after
            day,
We stuck, nor breath nor
            motion;
As idle as a painted
            ship
Upon a painted
            ocean.
This imprisonment is
            something that lasts for a very long time, until after the Mariner's curse is expiated.
            Note the way that he, after all of his fellow sailors die, is imprisoned on the ship by
            himself and left to face the ghoulish and nightmarish events that happen around him.
            Even after he gets back safely to land, and watches the destruction of his ship, he is
            still "imprisoned" as he bears the burden of his experiences, and feels doomed to live
            his life wandering around recounting his tale:
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I pass, like night, from land to
            land;
I have strange power of
            speech;
That moment that his face I
            see,
I konw the man that must hear
            me:
To him my tale I
            teach.
From the moment that
            the Mariner shoots the albatross, therefore, it is obvious that he suffers a feeling of
            imprisonment. Firstly this is based on the lack of wind that prevents the ship from
            moving anywhere, and then secondly the way in which his experiences are not forgotten
            and compel him to wander around the earth and recount his tale.
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