5. What is the purpose of the rubrics or running commentary in the margin?
6. Why is the wedding guest introduced, and what is the purpose of the constant interruptions in the narrative?
7. Look up the term "albatross" in reference works.
8. What punishment was inflicted on the Ancient Mariner for having shot the Albatross?
9. What broke the spell which had been cast upon him?
10. What would the repeated allusion to the mariner's "glittering eye," seem to indicate?
11. The moral which this tale is supposed to teach?
FOR REFERENCE
"Coleridge" ("Bell's Miniature Series.")—Garnett.
"Coleridge" ("Lives of Famous Poets.")—Rossetti.