LITERATURE QUESTIONS
ROMANTIC ERA ENGLISH LITERATURE
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Question
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The guest was too polite.
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The man hexed the guest.
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The guest had a glimmer in his eye.
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The old man had a glimmer in his eye.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answer: (a) The Ancient Mariner stopped the Wedding-Guest by his glittering eye and strange appearance. He also caught his hand and looked at him with his bright eyes. These had a kind of magical spell on the Wedding-Guest and he stopped at once.
Detailed explanation-2: -When they get on shore, the Mariner is desperate to tell his story to the hermit. He feels a terrible pain until the story had been told. In fact, the Mariner says that he still has the same painful need to tell his story, which is why he stopped the Wedding Guest on this occasion.
Detailed explanation-3: -The poem begins with an old grey-bearded sailor, the Mariner, stopping a guest at a wedding ceremony to tell him a story of a sailing voyage he took long ago. The Wedding-Guest is at first reluctant to listen, as the ceremony is about to begin, but the mariner’s glittering eye captivates him.