The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

The image I see is a perfect illustation of a gothic type of romanticism that Coolridge depicts in his poem. The setting is perfectly Romantic: natural, awesome, and lonely. It also takes place at a liminal time of day, either sunrise or sunset, to emphasize the fact that the scene also balances the physical and the metaphysical, as well as the natural and the spiritual. Note also how the humans in the picture are dwarfed by nature's sublimity so that they are noticeable only upon close inspection, and even then are barely distinguishable from the gravestones.