... the love and understanding shown by the Mariner. The Prisoner is not able to feel compassion or empathy with the rest of nature because he is too much obsessed with his own suffering. He returns to the darkness of his cell to ponder over what he now sees as almost an injustice that has been done ... to him and the anger of the exile creeps into him. "After all, anger is typically the sign of a mind in exile." (Andrew M. Stauffer, Romantic Anger and Byron ... an existence where he becomes locked within himself. He rejects any connection with the rest of mankind, shunning them for what ha...

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