Always Love God’s Creatures Great or Small

The world is full of God’s creature great and small all over the world. We see some animals are cure and some are ugly but some birds are ugly as vulture and crows but some birds are most beautiful as nightingales and cuckoos and eagle…while on the other hand snakes are considered the inauspicious creature that deceived Eve in the Garden of Eden.

Feeding God’s creatures is a most auspicious job on earth because God gives us foods and we must feed some foods to God’s creature as pigeons on the tombs and graveyards or where birds and small animal live as kites in the flying in the sky prays to God who feeds them. I have seen men and women on earth feeding birds and animal at different places just for the sake of goodness for the next world.

Many years age I read a story of an ancient Mariner who set for his voyage with his three hundred mariners in a sea boat. A bird of sea called Albatross followed the boat one day the mariner shot the bird and after some time the mariner and his fellow men were caught by a sea storm badly. Looking at the sea snakes the mariner started praising the sea snakes that were most beautiful and in the meanwhile God has mercy on the mariner and forgot his sin and saved his life.

1. T. Coleridge’s poem The Ancient Mariner is the most widely known poem. It is popular because its explanations are clear and it thoroughly deals with the Mariner’s punishment how he was punished by a Polar Spirit and was saved by a Hermit. It is a Christian poem due to running a Christian theme: “Those who love God and His creatures are loved by God” Its opening is dramatic and end is didactic.

According to a famous myth the ancient Mariner stops one of the three guests who were going to attend a marriage feast in his own boat and starts telling his sensational tale contains two hundred mariners were set for a sea voyage and caught by a sea storm along with darkness, snow and mist. Darkness, snow and mist encircled the ship for a long time. Therefore the Mariner exclaimed in these words;

“The ice was here, the ice was here

The ice was all around”

Suddenly one day an auspicious bird, named, Albatross appeared from the mist and snow and its appearance proved to be a good omen for them. The mist and snow disappeared and for seven days it remained with them happily. One day feeling his presence troublesome he killed the Albatross with his crossbow while the other mariners forbid him to do so but he did it. In the meanwhile the mist and snow again encircled the ship. Therefore they exclaimed:

“It was right, said they, such bird to slay

That brings the fog and mist”

To punish them the burning sun was over their heads and they were dying for thirst. After many days a ship life-in-death and death-in-life appeared there with a game of dice. At last life-in- death won the game. Winning the game all the mariners died except the ancient Mariner. He passed the days in a physical and spiritual agony.

One day the mariner saw some dancing colored sea-snakes in the water. Seeing them his choked mouth opened in praise of their skin-beauty. Awaking from his dream he found rain falling on the dead bodies. Falling raindrops on the dead all stood up. Therefore he exclaimed in these words:

“Each corpse lay flat, and by the holy rod

A man all light, a seraph man, on every corpse they stood,”

In the meanwhile the boat of the Hermit came near the Mariner’s ship broke into pieces and sank into the sea. All the mariners died except the ancient Mariner. Thus the Mariner was saved and reached his home with a spiritual agony that compelled him to tell his tale to other persons just to teach this lesson.

“All things both great and small

For the dear God who love us

He made and love al.”

To sum up, it is a symbolic poem with harmless supernatural elements. Four symbols are prominent in the poem: the Ancient Mariner stands for a black sinner, the Albatross stands for holiness, the ship stands for life and the Hermit stands for savior. Critics call it a pure Christian poem with a didactic end