The story has ended back where it began, therefore it is an epic. It is also a reason the extract is so significant, because his connection with the wedding guest being the ballad to a full circle. This is the origins of the ballad, because he is talking to the wedding guest as a warning. The pain he felt creates, and is the reason for his story. His tale is the warning he gives to others who must hear, so they do not make the same mistake. In the third line of the second stanza Coleridge writes, 'which forces me to being my tale ' Here, he is talking about the 'woeful agony' he felt as a result of his actions. This connects with the thesis, because he has become his story, and it introduces the pain he has suffered. The Mariner, himself, died on the boat, and only his body exists. This would be done, because he only lives to warn others of his wrong doings. ' This means he does not belong to his own body. In the first line Coleridge writes, 'this frame of mine. Coleridge writes, 'Forthwith this frame of mine was wrenched with a woeful agony, which forced me to being my tale and then it let me free. These stanzas are from the middle of part the seventh. The Hermit then questions who he is, and he describes the pain he feels. The Mariner has arrived in England, and he was spotted by a curious Hermit. It brings a full circle to the ballad, and it returns to the wedding. This extract is significant in the ballad, because he describes why he is forcing people to listen to his story. Throughout the extract the writer uses religious symbols surrounding his pain or the wedding.

He later creates a juxtaposition, with a structural shift, between the horrible pain he felt and the happy wedding. In the extract he begins by describing the Mariner's repentance and catharsis doings. In this extract the Mariner is talking to a Hermit about his travels and the effect it had on him. This essay will analyze part the seventh. The ballad is about a Mariner who shoots an albatross, and is cursed forever. He was part of the Romantic Era in literature. Andrew Vollen English Commentary 'The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner' was written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1791.

Rime of the ancient mariner