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Answer to: Snakes generate both horror and fascination. Do you agree? Why? Why not?class 10,cbse,ncert,the rime, the ancient mariner

Snakes generate both horror and fascination because our reasoning often misleads us. Though snakes are creations of nature, we are afraid of them. Sna...

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Answer to: What is the poet trying to convey through this poem?

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a balled. Through this poem, Coleridge conveys a message to get close to God through prayer. The Ancient Mariner co...

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Answer to: Why did he have to tell his tale to someone?

The Ancient Mariner stopped a man on his way to a wedding function to narrate his experience at the sea. Though there was no particular reason for the...

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Answer to: Why did the Ancient Mariner stop the particular Wedding-Guest to listen to his tale?

The ancient mariner was feeling himself burdened with the crime of killing the albatross. Other mariners also felt that the ancient mariner was respon...

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Answer to: Find examples of the use of interesting sounds from the poem and explain their effect on the reader.

1. breeze blew ____________ alliteration ___________ alliteration is used to give a reinforcement to the sound. 2. foam flew __________ alliteration...

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Answer to: Like part one, the second part also has a number of literary devices. List them out in the same way as you had done in question number seven and explain them.

Excerpt - Literary device 1. out of the sea come he, → Personification: The sun has been compared to a human being capable of mo...

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Answer to: Why did the Mariners hang the Albatross around the neck of the Ancient Mariner?

The mariners hung the albatross around the neck of the Ancient Mariner in order to remind him of the ghasdy deed he had committed by killing the innoc...

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Answer to: Describe the condition of the Mariners as expressed in the thirteenth stanza.

The sailors were feeling very thirsty as there was no drinking water available. Their throats were dry and they could not speak even a word.

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Answer to: What or who did the Mariners feel was responsible for their suffering?

The mariners felt that the ancient mariner was responsible for their suffering. He had killed an innocent bird, the albatross, without any provocation...

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Answer to: What is the narrator trying to convey through the description of the situation in the tenth and eleventh stanza?

Through the tenth and eleventh stanza, the poet brings out the condition of the creatures in the sea. As there was no breeze blowing, the creatures ha...

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Answer to: What is the irony in the ninth stanza? Explain it in your own words.

The ship is stuck in the middle of the sea with water all around. The weather is extremely hot and mariners need drinking water. In spite of there bei...

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Answer to: How does the Mariner describe the fact that they were completely motionless in the middle of the sea?

The mariner says that there was no air and no movement. He compares their ship to a painted ship which stands still on a painted ocean.

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Answer to: What is indicated by the line ‘The bloody sun, at noon,/Right up above the mast did stand,/No bigger than the moon’?

This line states that the sun was shining very bright and it was right above the ship. It was very hot but the size of the sun was not very big. The p...

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