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Lupton reviews and evaluates the meanings of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner offered by literary and psychoanalytic sources. Her own feeling is that the albatross is a totem animal, that the Mariner has retreated from sexuality because of Oedipal guilt, and is punished by separation and isolation from the human community. She feels the maudlin prayer that ends the poem on an optimistic note is a shallow cover for the Mariner's hostility.