... tells many stories in a larger picture. The frame of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is a young man on the way to a wedding reception. In Part I of the poem, the wedding guest is stopped by a creepy old man and the man insists on telling him about his journey sailing at Cape Horn. The old man has the wedding guest in a hypnotic trance. The young man wishes to go to the reception, but cannot pry himself away from ... this man. The mariner begins his tale. The wedding guest ... ...

• Word Count: 1374
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", first of all, is a really creepy story. It begins with a wedding, and there are three guests about to enter the wedding celebration, when an ancient, skeleton of a man, (presumably dressed in rags), stops one of them, holding him by the shoulder with a bony hand. He than without a word of warning, or explanation, proceeds to tell a story to the wedding guest, a man he has never met before. There was a ship ... not a drop to drink." After a hallucination or two, eventually the crew dies, everyone that is, except for the ancient Mariner. He is left to live on...

• Word Count: 597
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" was written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1791. He was part of the Romantic Era in literature. The ballad is about a Mariner who shoots an albatross, and is cursed forever. In this extract the Mariner is talking to a wedding guest about his travels and the effect it had on him. In the extract he begins by describing the Mariner's repentance and catharsis doings. He later creates a juxtaposition, with a structural shift, between ... person to third person. In doing so he creates a juxtaposition between the horrible pain he felt and the happiness of the wedding...

• Word Count: 1043
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School