Read the passage. “with my crossbow i shot the albatross… the souls did from their bodies fly— they fled to bliss or woe! and every soul, it passed me by, like the whizz of my crossbow! ” in the excerpt from samuel taylor coleridge’s “the rime of the ancient mariner,” what do these lines indicate about the mariner’s feelings for the death of his shipmates? he is scared. each time a shipmate dies, the mariner thinks an arrow has almost hit him. he feels frustrated. each time a shipmate dies, he hears the sound of an arrow missing its target. he is relieved. each time a shipmate dies, he imagines he has escaped being hit by an arrow. he feels guilty. each time a shipmate dies, he hears the sound of his crossbow killing the albatross.