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Answer to: The Wedding-Guest beat his breast because ……..

(iii) the sound of the bassoon meant that the bride had arrived and the wedding ceremony was about to begin and he could not attend it

4 years ago
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Answer to: ‘He cannot choose but hear’ means

(ii) the Wedding-Guest was forced to hear the story of the Mariner

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Answer to: God save thee, ancient Mariner, From the fiends that plague thee thus!- Why look’st thou so?’’- "With my crossbow I shot the Albatross.”

The wedding guest exclaimed that God had saved the mariner from the devils that troubled him and other sailors then why was he looking so wretched. Th...

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Answer to: It ate the food it neer had eat, And round and round it flew. The ice did split with a thunder-fit; The helmsman steered us through!

The albatross ate the food that it had never eaten. It became friendly with the sailors and flew in circles about the ship. Miraculously, the ice spli...

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Answer to: At length did cross an Albatross, Through the fog it came; As it had been a Christian soul. We hailed it in God’s name.

Amid the havoc, an albatross came emerging from the fog. The sailors thought it to be a messenger of God and called it on the ship.

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Answer to: The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around: It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound!

The mariner recalled that they could see nothing but ice all around them. The storm howled loudly like a man in a fit and the ice also cracked making ...

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Answer to: And through the drifts the snowy cliffs Did send a dismal sheen: Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken The ice was all between.

The ancient mariner said that the floating ice-bergs and their surface reflected the sunshine that made them gloomy. They could see neither man nor an...

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Answer to: And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold: And ice, mast-high, came floating by. As green as emerald.

The old man narrated his tale of woe unaware of the state of the mind of the wedding guest. “It grew icy cold with mist and snow everywhere". The ship...

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Answer to: With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe. And forward bends his head. The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled.

The old mariner recalled his horrible experience: “The ship’s front part dipped in the sea and the masts dropped down. The storm drove the ship southw...

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Answer to: “And now the storm-blast came, and he Was tyrannous and strong: He struck with his overtaking wings. And chased us south along."

The old man continued: “We were chased towards south by a severe and strong sea-storm that completely overtook us.”

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Answer to: The Wedding-Guest he beat his breast, Yet he cannot choose but hear; And thus spake on that ancient man. The bright-eyed Mariner.

The guest was too eager to go from there and was cursing himself as well as was getting irritated but he. had no other option than to listen to that a...

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Answer to: The bride hath paced into the hall. Red as a rose is she; Nodding their heads before her goes The merry minstrelsy.

The bassoon itself signified the rosy bride had entered into the hall accompanied by a band of happy singers and musicians.

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Answer to: Higher and higher every day. Till over the mast at noon The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast. For he heard the loud bassoon.

“Everyday the sun rose higher until it was just above our head at noon,” the old man dreamily said. By now the guest was getting impatient on hearing ...

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Answer to: The sun came up upon the left, Out of the sea came he! And he shone bright, and on the right Went down into the sea.

The sun rose everyday from the left and set on the right after shining brightly for the whole day.

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Answer to: “The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared. Merrily did we drop Below the kirk, below the hill. Below the lighthouse top.

The old mariner continued telling his story: We started our journey by the sea cheerfully and the ship sailed below the church, below the hill and bel...

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Answer to: The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone: He cannot choose but hear; And thus spake on that ancient man. The bright-eyed Mariner.

Not having any other option, the wedding guest, helplessly sat on a stone and so the ancient mariner spoke continuously.

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Answer to: He holds him with his glittering eye- The Wedding-Guest stood still. And listens like a three years’ child: The Mariner hath his will.

The mariner hypnotized the wedding guest with his glittering eyes and the guest could not move. He listened to the old mariner like a small child of t...

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