Compare And Contrast The Marginal Glosse In The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

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The Main Text or the Marginal Gloss: Which Do You Prefer?

In the poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Coleridge, the marginal glosses beside the main text, are included within the framework of the poem. The function of the marginal glosses is there to explain/summarize the poem from a different perspective. As readers, we question, why are there glosses in the story? What is the use of them being there? Well, I do not think anyone knows why they are there for, but we can inteperate that they are to foreshadow and act like a “spellbound” to help understand the main text. The comparison of the main text and the marginal glosses are there to help the reader’s understand what is going on in the poem from two different perspectives. However, in contrast between the main text and the marginal glosses is that everyone’s interpretation of the poem might be different, so the marginal glosses might be of no use to the readers and as with the main text; it by itself without the marginal gloss could be easy to understand. Throughout this poem, Coleridge’s main text of the poem is there as like entertainment/moral interpretation for the readers. On the other hand, the use of the marginal glosses, they are as like a guide
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In these lines, the ancient mariner is giving one final piece of advice to the wedding guest and then he disappears. The wedding guest is fascinated by all of this and does not go back to the wedding. We can tell that he learned something meaningful from the Ancient Mariner and is probably surprised by it. So this was a mission for the Marine to teach the word of God and after that we must all try to love all the things that God created. It is really fascinating how the Mariner goes from killing a bird to teaching people the word of God by repenting for his

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