His comrades were doomed to die because they helped him in his crime when they said the imaginary world has its own rules which are different from ours. He is haunted by the presence of his dead comrades, and he carries a gnawing memory to the end of his days. The Mariner commits a hideous crime when he shoots the albatross. They have, too, a power of stirring elementary emotions, such as fear and desire. Dreams can have a curiously vivid quality which is often lacking in waking impressions. He must relate his theme to something which they knew and understood, something which touched their hearts and imaginations, and he did this by using some characteristics of the dream. But Coleridge could not rely on his reader's feeling at home with his unfamiliar theme. The first problem for any poet of the supernatural is to relate it to familiar experience.
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