Part 2

Question 1

What happens straight after the crime?

Answer 1

Nothing dramatic happens

“Good south wind still blew behind”

Question 2

Innocence of the bird

Heightened severity of crime

Answer 2

“No sweet bird did follow nor any day for food or play”

Question 3

Religious crime/ crime against nature

Answer 3

“I had done a hellish thing”

Question 4

The crime / Pathetic fallacy / shows that the bird is innocent

Answer 4

“I had killed the bird that made the breeze to blow”

Question 5

But when the weather changes what do the sailors do ?

Answer 5

Change their opinion of the crime

“‘‘Twas right, day they, such birds to slay that bring the fog and mist”

Question 6

Transgression
Sibilance
Onomatopoeia

Answer 6

“We were the first that ever burst into the silent sea”

Question 7

Suffering of mariner / sailors as a consequence of the crime.
Nature is now disordered
Isolated boat

Answer 7

“We stuck, nor breath nor motion as idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocrab”

“Water, water everywhere nor a drip to drink” - ironic

Question 8

Mariner doesn’t appreciate nature/ hasn’t learned lesson / so he will continue to suffer / super-natural

Answer 8

“Slimy things did crawl with legs upon the slimy sea”

Question 9

Punished / are the crew/ mariner victims/ suffering

Answer 9

“Every tongue, through utter drought was withered at the root; we could not speak, no more than if we had beeen choked with soot”

Question 10

What does the mariner wear to pay for sin/ consequence of crime

Answer 10

“The albatross about my neck was hung”