Coleridge's "Rime of The Ancient Mariner"

Coleridge's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is wrote in a way that the reader is expected to temporarily allow him or herself to believe it to be able to understand it. The poem itself is about a Mariner who is telling his tale of sin and forgiveness by God to a man referred to as the 'Wedding Guest.' The Mariner is supposedly responsible for the death of all of the crew on …

…does just that. Coleridge wanted people to understand the Mariner and to be able to relate to him and to understand him. He conveyed his point of religion to the reader by making the reader subconsciously fall prey to the images and thoughts he instilled in their minds. The poem for the most part does as Coleridge intended and gets the reader to atleast understand and believe the tale that the Mariner has to tell.