Fear Of A Wedding And A Subject By The Supernatural Force Of The Mariner

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The Frame Story used by Coleridge in this poem is that of a wedding and a guest at the wedding being detained by the supernatural force of the Mariner who must tell his story. Throughout the poem, the wedding guest expresses his fear of the Mariner and the effect the Mariner has on him, but the wedding guest is told not to fear, only to listen. At the end of the Mariner's tale, the wedding guest is allowed to leave, having missed the entire wedding, but leaving a wiser man than the Mariner was when he made his first mistakes of disregarding nature and the Higher Power who created "all things great and small". The effect is to create a more ancient feel, a mysterious mood and atmosphere, giving some truth to the tale. The supernatural way