The dice game between death and life-in-death in "the rime of the ancient mariner" suggests that a. sailors like to gamble. b. it is hard to cheat when playing the dice. c. universal forces are not guided by reason. d. female forces are more powerful than male forces.

It suggests that "universal forces are not guided by reason".

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the longest major poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge who was an English poet. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner relates the encounters of a mariner who has come back from a long ocean voyage. The sailor stops a man who is en route to a wedding service and starts to portray a story. The wedding-visitor's response abandons bemusement to anxiety to dread to interest as the sailor's story advances. In the end the death win the crew meaning all drop dead.