People write stories, poems, and other works in order to express feelings, beliefs, or situations to other people. Associating nature with the character's feelings is one way authors enforce the role the character's feeling has on the story. Colerigde's poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" expresses a connection between the Ancient Mariner's feelings and nature. Other authors show psychological irony through a character's insulting descriptions of another person, innocent of the cruel accusations, while they expose their own bad attitude and twisted view of the world. In Browning's "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" a holy monk tells the reader about an unholy monk, and all through the poem he manages to describe himself and expose his feelings that are anything but holy. Authors use nature to set the mood of the story and to affect the characters psychologically. In Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" Marlow feels a darkness and uncertainty as he leaves Europe and ventures deep !
             into Africa. Authors use the feeling of a character to set the mood, provide irony, or to base the story upon.
             "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" appears guided by the Mariner's feelings toward life. The Mariner begins the journey with a cold heart and his feelings of bitterness are depicted when the ship ventures into the arctic. Whenever he kills the albatross for no clear reason he realizes he committed an awful deed and says, "I had done a hellish thing". Not long after he feels he as committed his hellish deed the ship becomes stuck in an ocean desert and it seems as if the ship has navigated into hell. When the Mariner begins to change his views night falls and the moon rises representing change. When the Mariner has an epiphany he is blessed with rain, a life renewing and cleansing substance. The Mariner's feeling affects what happens to the ship throughout th...