Question

what is the meaning of these lines and thus spake on that ancient man, the bright- eyed mariner. 'the ship was cheered, the harbour cleared, merrily did we drop

Answer 1

How a Ship having passed the Line was driven by storms to the cold Country towards the South Pole; and how from thence she made her course to the tropical Latitude of the Great Pacific Ocean; and of the strange things that befell; and in what manner the Ancyent Marinere came back to his own country.