Question

Using the words given above rewrite PART I of the poem in your own words. The first stanza has been done as an example:

It is an ancient Mariner,
And he stoppeth one of three.
'By thy long grey beard and glittering eye,
Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?
An old sailor stopped one of the three people passing by, who asked: "Old man, with your long grey beard and glittering eye, why are you stopping me?"

Answer 1

1 . The bridegroom’s doors are opened wide.
And I am next of kin;
The guests are met, the feast is set:
May’st hear the merry din.
Answer:
The man chided the mariner if he could not hear the happy sounds as he was a close relative of the bridegroom and the doors of the marriage venue were opened. He firnher added that the guests had arrived and the dinner was arranged.

2. He holds him with his skinny hand,
“There was a ship,” quoth he.
‘Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!’
Eftsoons his hand dropt he.
Answer:
But the old man held him with his skinny hands and said : There was a ship………………… The man at once freed his hand from the old man’s grip and said, “stop you mad old man. leave me”.

3. He holds him with his glittering eye-
The Wedding-Guest stood still.
And listens like a three years’ child:
The Mariner hath his will.
Answer:
The mariner hypnotized the wedding guest with his glittering eyes and the guest could not move. He listened to the old mariner like a small child of three and the mariner had his will.

4. The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone:
He cannot choose but hear;
And thus spake on that ancient man.
The bright-eyed Mariner.
Answer:
Not having any other option, the wedding guest, helplessly sat on a stone and so the ancient mariner spoke continuously.

5. “The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared.
Merrily did we drop
Below the kirk, below the hill.
Below the lighthouse top.
Answer:
The old mariner continued telling his story: We started our journey by the sea cheerfully and the ship sailed below the church, below the hill and below the lighthouse top.

6. The sun came up upon the left,
Out of the sea came he!
And he shone bright, and on the right
Went down into the sea.
Answer:
The sun rose everyday from the left and set on the right after shining brightly for the whole day.

7. Higher and higher every day.
Till over the mast at noon-
The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast.
For he heard the loud bassoon.
Answer:
“Everyday the sun rose higher until it was just above our head at noon,” the old man dreamily said. By now the guest was getting impatient on hearing the sound of the bassoon, a musical instrument.

 8. The bride hath paced into the hall.
Red as a rose is she;
Nodding their heads before her goes
The merry minstrelsy.
Answer:
The bassoon itself signified the rosy bride had entered into the hall accompanied by a band of happy singers and musicians.                                                                                 

9. The Wedding-Guest he beat his breast,
Yet he cannot choose but hear;
And thus spake on that ancient man.
The bright-eyed Mariner.
Answer:
The guest was too eager to go from there and was cursing himself as well as was getting irritated but he. had no other option than to listen to that ancient man who spoke continuously.

10. “And now the storm-blast came, and he
Was tyrannous and strong:
He struck with his o’ertaking wings.
And chased us south along.

Answer:
The old man continued: “We were chased towards south by a severe and strong sea-storm that completely overtook us.”

11. With sloping masts and dipping prow,
As who pursued with yell and blow
Still treads the shadow of his foe.
And forward bends his head.
The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast,
And southward aye we fled.
Answer:
The old mariner recalled his horrible experience: “The ship’s front part dipped in the sea and the masts dropped down. The storm drove the ship southward with such force that the ship seemed to chase an enemy fiercely with a bent head.

12. And now there came both mist and snow,
And it grew wondrous cold:
And ice, mast-high, came floating by.
As green as emerald.
Answer:
The old man narrated his tale of woe unaware of the state of the mind of the wedding guest. “It grew icy cold with mist and snow everywhere. The ship was surrounded by big, bright green pieces of floating ice.

13. And through the drifts the snowy cliffs
Did send a dismal sheen:
Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken-
The ice was all between.
Answer:
The ancient mariner said that the floating ice-bergs and their surface reflected the sunshine that made them gloomy. They could see neither man nor an animal as there was only ice surrounding the ship.

14. The ice was here, the-ice was there,
The ice was all around:
It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,
Like noises in a swound!
Answer:
The mariner recalled that they could see nothing but ice all around them. The storm howled loudly like a man in a fit and the ice also cracked making horrible noises.

15. At length did cross an Albatross,
     Through the fog it came;
     As it had been a Christian soul.
     We hailed it in God’s name.
Answer:
Amid the havoc, an albatross came emerging from the fog. The sailors thought it to be a messenger of God and called it on the ship.

16. It ate the food it ne’er had eat,
    And round and round it flew.

   The ice did split with a thunder-fit;
   The helmsman steered us through!
Answer:
The albatross ate the food that it had never eaten. It became friendly with the sailors and flew in circles about the ship. Miraculously, the ice split making a thunderous noise and the helms man was able to steer the ship in the right direction.

17. ‘God save thee, ancient Mariner,
From the fiends that plague thee thus!-
Why look’st thou so?’-’’With my crossbow
I shot the Albatross.”
Answer:
The wedding guest exclaimed that God had saved the mariner from the devils that troubled him and other sailors then why was he looking so wretched. The mariner repentandy answered that, it was he who shot the albatross with his cross bow.