The Rime of the Ancient Mariner a salvation story. The poem's structure is multi-layered text based on Coleridge's interest in Higher Criticism. "Like the Iliad or Paradise Lost or any great historical product, the "Rime" is a work of transhistorical rather than so-called universal significance. This verbal distinction is important because it calls attention to a real one. Like The Divine Comedy or any other poem, the "Rime" is not valued or used always or everywhere or by everyone in the same way or for the same reasons." George Whalley, in his 1946–47 essay, "The Mariner and the Albatross", suggests that the Ancient Mariner is an
Joseba Sarrionandia and irony. Atxaga speculates on a fifth phase, based on the poem "La vida ha llegado y tiene tus ojos," where the "life that has arrived" could be a child. He has translated books by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ("The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"), Constantine P. Cavafy, T. S. Eliot, Manuel Bandeira, Fernando Pessoa ("Marinela"), Marcel Schwob ("La Croisade des enfants"), Dolf Verroen ("Slaaf kindje slaaf") and various literary works of fifty different languages. Joseba Sarrionandia Joseba Sarrionandia Uribelarrea (Iurreta, Biscay, April 13, 1958 – ) is a Basque writer who has published a large number of books of poetry