How do music, and feasting, and ceremony serve to set off the story?
Trace the course of the Mariner's voyage.
Can you form any idea of the time when he lived, or of the length of time that he was absent on his voyage?
Why was not Coleridge more definite in regard to time and place?
"The poem is a story told by pictures." Name the most important ones. Note the details that make them clear. In what respects are they unusual?
Plot.—Name the incidents that lead to the killing of the albatross; those that lead from the killing of the albatross to the blessing of the water snakes; and those that lead from this point to the end.
Show how one incident leads to another by the law of cause and effect.
Show how the killing of the albatross and the blessing of the water snakes are the most important events of all.
How does the author impress us with the importance of the Mariner's crime?
Which events in the story are caused by the Mariner? which by the supernatural beings?