ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Summary. The Mariner continues telling his story to the Wedding-Guest.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Ancient Mariner is compelled to tell his story. Telling his tale is part of his penance for killing the albatross. If you’re asking why he chooses the wedding guest and not someone else, the answer is that the wedding guest had something wrong with him that hearing the tale would fix.

Detailed explanation-3: -Wrapping up, the Mariner tells the Wedding Guest that he needs to learn how to say his prayers and love other people and things. Then the Mariner leaves, and the Wedding Guest no longer wants to enter the wedding. He goes home and wakes up the next day, as the famous last lines go, “a sadder and a wiser man."

Detailed explanation-4: -The Wedding Guest is a man on his way to a wedding celebration – he seems to be a relative of the groom, a young man, perhaps in his twenties, who enjoys a good party – when he is chosen by the Mariner to hear his tale.

Detailed explanation-5: -The choice of the wedding guest, who becomes so mesmerized that he cannot pull himself away from the tale, speaks to fascinating details. The poet deliberately chooses the occasion of a wedding ceremony for the ancient mariner to narrate his devastating tale.