THE ANCIENT MARINER Through The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Coleridge has created a masterpiece. This epic reworks the ballad form so that it comes alive and speaks to the Romantic Age, breathing a story as strange and delightful, mystical and wonderful as the mystery of life itself. The raw power of the language, the startling speed at which it hurls you along and the arresting questions of the poem fill your spirit with wonder …showed first 75 words of 1383 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1383 total…of the ancient mariner is worked. A truly brilliant piece of writing, Coleridge does not let us down at the finish, producing a marvellous ending. ? 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 wedding guest represents us, the readers whose spirits have been held captive by the ballad and now, released, emerge fuller and richer from the experience.