Coleridge's "The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
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Coleridge's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is wrote in a way that
the reader is expected to temporarily allow him or herself to believe it to be
able to understand it. The poem itself is about a Mariner who is telling his
tale of sin and forgiveness by God to a man referred to as the "Weddi ....
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.... in the story is trying
to get the point of forgiveness from God across to the reader and if the reader
chooses not to believe the story behind the poem then they will not understand
the effect of the point of the tale. Coleridge's main point in writing the
story was to get people to understand forgiveness by understanding the poem.
The Mariner in the poem is telling his tale to a "Wedding Guest" who has
no choice but to listen and to believe. The "Wedding Guest" in the poem
represents ....
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