This is narrative verse poem, meaning it tells a story and has characters more imagined and real than say a short poem like a lyric or a sonnet, because of this narrative verse poems are usually longer. It is also a poem by a famous English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge who is dead now. It is not always wise to shorten verse poems, as the meaning or sense can be lost.

There are lots of short poems you can find on Storynory.com, why not
try the ‘Spider and the Fly’

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The metaphors and images in the poem; The Sun, The Sea, The Moon, The Stars at night, the heightened verse language the poem is written in, and the different characters he speaks to: The Wedding Guest and Polar Spirits, which make it appear difficult but we can form our own interpretations of poetry.

It is a verse of journey, in which the Mariner re counts the story of how he was shipwrecked at sea by the Ship he was on board when it was caught in a STORM-BLAST, and then driven to the south pole with it’s dead men as ghostly crew. Amidst the Mariner shoots an Albatross, a sacred bird that descends upon him at sea. He then encounters two Polar Spirits sent down by heaven, that drive the ship, the mariner and his men forward. It is the Hermit Good, a Seraph band, the Pilot and his men, that rescue the Mariner and bring him back to land at the end of the tale

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N*

Thanks

It is long narrative verse poem, that makes it seem like a story when we read it.

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N*

how many times did the souls go?

Thank you for your comment. Both poems written by Coleridge
‘The Rime of the Ancient and ‘ Kublah Kahn ‘, have a lot of similarities. Bother are lyrical verse poems and use metaphors of water imagery: the Sea and the Ocean. In the Ancyient Mariner there is described ‘The Painted Ocean’ and in Kublah Kahn the Sunny Pleasure Dome, is seen ‘Floating midway on the Waves’.

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N*