By the end of the poem, after he has listened to the Mariner’s story,
the Wedding Guest
has become “a sadder and wiser man,” with the implication that the Mariner’s story has changed him, made him less interested in revelry and more concerned with the spiritual and natural concerns that the Mariner’s story describes.
What is the sadder but wiser effect?
This apparent knack for
depressives not to be misled
by outcome density in their contingency judgements has been termed “depressive realism”, and the absence of an outcome-density effect has led to the characterization of depressives as “sadder but wiser”.
Who ends up sadder but wiser?
Unhappy but having learned from one’s mistakes, as in Sadder but wiser, she’s never going near
poison ivy
again. The pairing of these two adjectives was first recorded in Samuel Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798).
What has the wedding guest learned why is he now a sadder but wiser man?
The wedding guest is “sadder and wiser.” Possibly, he is sadder
because he himself is in need of repentance
. … The wedding guest has learned so much from the mariner. He realizes how much the mariner has suffered for killing the albatross. Perhaps, the wedding guest is much wiser for hearing the story.
How is the wedding guest sadder and wiser after listening to the Mariner’s story?
Through the telling of the ancient Mariner’s tale, the Wedding-Guest became sadder and wiser. He became sad in that he identified himself with the shallow and self-absorbed mariner. … The Wedding-Guest became
wise through realizing that he himself needed to alter his ways
.
Why does the Ancient Mariner stop the wedding guest and not one of his companions?
6 Why does the Ancient Mariner stop the Wedding Guest and not one of his companions?
His instinct tells him whom to stop
. The Wedding Guest asks the Ancient Mariner for directions. He chooses his audience at random.
How is the wedding guest different at the end of the story?
At the end of the story, the wedding-guest
finally has a sense of reverence for the Mariner’s experience
. The mariner and the guest leave and Coleridge writes, “[The wedding-guest] went like one that hath been stunned/and is of sense forlorn/a sadder and wiser man/he rose the morrow morn” (Page 23).
Why is The Rime of the Ancient Mariner set at a wedding?
The first symbol in the poem is the wedding that the guest and the Mariner are at. This is a highly significant detail, because Coleridge could have made the story telling take place at any setting, but he chose a wedding. The reason for this was because a wedding is
a very religious and very happy occasion
.
What is the theme of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
The main themes in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” are
sin and penance, the power of prayer, and mystery and the supernatural
. Sin and penance: After sinning by killing the albatross, the mariner must atone through suffering. As such, he is condemned to wander the world, telling his story of woe.
How did the sailors treat the albatross?
The sailors initially treated the albatross
with fondness and gratitude
, but later, they were complicit in the Ancient Mariner’s disrespect for the bird.
What is the moral of the mariner’s tale?
He prayeth best, who loveth bestAll things both great and small;For the dear God who loveth us,He made and loveth all. The mariner is like a christ figure. He must return to the earth and save people. The moral is
to be like a christ figure, to suffer day and night to overcome in order to be absolved from guilt
.
What happened to the dead bodies of the sailors Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
Regardless, as the ship becomes becalmed after the death of the albatross, they first become utterly dehydrated, and then
fall dead when Death wins their souls in his gambling game
with Life-In-Death. Later, angels eerily reanimate the Sailors, and their corpses aid in the Mariner’s penance.
What does Moon Sun Night Day have to do with the story?
The Sun and Moon symbolize
the competing influences on the Mariner’s journey and on the world
. The two compete with each other, at times embodying the forces of both the natural and supernatural world. … It is then by moonlight that the next stage of penance and the Mariner’s spiritual awakening take place.
What is the Mariners message to the wedding guest?
However, the mariner then tells the wedding guest that this agony occasionally returns,
“at an uncertain hour,” when he encounters another man who needs to hear the story
. He says that each time he instinctively “know(s) the man that must hear” him.” This time, it is the wedding guest.
Who is the Ancient Mariner talking to at the beginning of the poem?
The mariner tells his story to a random younger guy who’s on his way to attend a family wedding. This guest is actually outdoors and on his way into the wedding, and is a stranger to the mariner, who stops him to tell him the tale. The speaker of the poem calls this listener “
The Wedding-Guest
.”
Who stops the wedding guest?
In the poem ‘The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner
‘ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the ancient mariner wanted to confess his sin to someone. He stopped the wedding guest to listen to his tale as the guest was transfixed by his hypnotic gaze and was, thus, left with no option but to listen to his tale.
