The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Group

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heyzeleyz
heyzeleyz
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High School - 12th Grade

In the Rime Of The Ancient Mariner, what penance does the mariner still have to do?

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Posted by heyzeleyz on Wednesday July 11, 2007 at 11:40 AM and tagged with mariner, penance, the rime of the ancient mariner.

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  1. bmadnick Teacher
    High School - 11th Grade

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    The mariner must travel from land to land and teach others, by using his own story as an example, to love and respect everything God has made. At the end, he tells the wedding guest,

    Farewell, farewell! but this I tell
    To thee, thou Wedding-Guest!
    He prayeth well, who loveth well
    Both man and bird and beast.
    He prayeth best, who loveth best
    All things both great and small;
    For the dear God who loveth us
    He made and loveth all.
    The Mariner, whose eye is bright,
    Whose beard with age is hoar,
    Is gone: and now the Wedding-Guest
    Turned from the bridegroom's door.
    He went like one that hath been stunned,
    And is of sense forlorn:
    A sadder and a wiser man,
    He rose the morrow morn.

    The mariner leaves a great impact on the wedding guest with his story. He's successful because when the wedding guest wakes the next morning, he's wiser as well as sadder for having heard the mariner's story.

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    Posted by bmadnick on Wednesday July 11, 2007 at 12:02 PM