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This becomes relevant in the following stanzas where we see a drastic change in the ships surrounding atmosphere. We come to know that the ship which was drifted into the Antarctic water was now coming out of it. The important thing to notice in this stanza is that the mariner says “the sun rose upon the right.” This gives us an idea as to where the ship was travelling and we can infer that it was going a general North or North-west direction. The mist was still very thick and the ship couldn’t see the sun from the thick cover. The sun rose up every day from the left as if coming out of the sea and still went down at night. In the second part of the poem, the poet starts with the mariner’s narration of what befell the ship and the mariner’s lot. This all changed after the mariner killed the Albatross. The weather was a bit favourable even though it was still cold and misty, and a good south wind was carrying the ship in the right direction. In the previous part of the poem we had seen that thing were looking good for the ship. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Part Two Explanation Stanza 1:
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