THE KILLING OF THE ALBATROSS

  1. Who stops one of three wedding guests?
  1. What does the mariner look like?
  1. How does he stop the wedding guest?
  1. What does the mariner start to do? Is the wedding guest obliged to listen to him?
  1. How did the voyage of the mariner's ship start?
  1. What attracted the wedding guest's attention?
  1. Did the wedding guest choose to continue to listen to the mariner?

it was an ancien Mariner, who stopped one of the three guests at the wedding

the mariner has a long grey beard and a glittering eye

he stopped the guest holding him whit his skinny hand

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the mariner's voyage began with the ship being cheered, then sailed south until it reached the line

the attention of the guest is attracted by the loud sound of the bassoon. From wedding music

the guest cannot choose but listen to the mariner

  1. What happened all of a sudden to the ship?
  1. What was the direction of the ship during the storm?
  1. Where did the ship reach? What surrounded it?
  1. What mysteriously appeared from nowhere?
  1. How did the mariners react?

the ship was driven by a storm towards the south pole

the ship during the storm went fast, strong and southwars aye we fled

the ship arrives in the land of ice, where it passes through the snowy clifts

the ship was surrounded by ice

The mariners greeted him with great joy and hospitality
and they hailed it in God's name

through the snowy-fog a large sea-bird appears, Albatross