Do you feel guilty and conscious of making your gut feel strange? This is how you are told that you have made a mistake, that you have done something wrong. It used to be that there was a different way to tell people that they had made a mistake. “Real guilt needs our permission to exist. It’s sneaky, shiny and invisible,” according to Liz Jones. But is guilt really invisible? Not in the poem The Rime of Ancient Mariner. The birds in these two poems symbolize two different things. This becomes the main plot of both poems. The Raven in Poe's poem The Raven is a symbolism of evil and the Albatross in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a sign of lack of appreciation for nature. The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe shows us a man who sits alone in his house thinking about a woman named Lenore. However, we don't know who Lenore is, we can assume that she is a woman close to our main character. He hears a knock at his door and when he goes to answer his door, no one is there. He goes to sit down then hears it again at his window he looks to see that it is a Raven. The Raven enters his house and he begins to have a conversation with the bird, but to all the questions that the main character would ask, the Raven would always answer "Never again". The man starts looking too far and thinks the bird is predicting the future. When at the end the bird turns into a demon and the main character has gone completely crazy. People wonder why Poe chose a Raven, but according to John Richardson, this is why he thinks Poe chose the Raven; "It was a very good choice on Poe's part, a bird that looks like part of the dark night it came from, a little scary, but also difficult to read."...... middle of paper .. ....go crazy for a while in their life. Birds make people aware of things they didn't really think were important. There is a fine line between being a genius and being crazy. This is shown in these poems. Both men start out sane and very intelligent, but in the end they are both completely insane. Works Cited Getting rid of your guilty conscience. Np, and Web. March 16, 2014. Good reading. Np, and Web. March 16, 2014. .Shmoop. Np, and Web. March 16, 2014. .Shmoop. Np, and Web. March 16, 2014. .Student Pulse. Np, and Web. March 16. 2014. .