"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" 
Hearing the tale makes the Wedding
Guest "
sadder and wiser man" because he learns that neither he nor the world is as innocent as either seems. ....
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Various Literary Characters
.... The Mariner is offering a warning in the form of his story, and the wedding
guest does heed the words and emerges a changed man, a "
sadder and wiser man." D. ....
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Differing Interpretations
.... Wedding
Guest is altered dramatically by his encounter with the Mariner; indeed, the change in the
guest is the comment that closes the poem: "A
sadder and a ....
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Rime of the Ancient Mariner & Frankenstein
.... we are taught the meaning of 'ignorance is bliss' in that the Wedding
Guest, as well .... like one that hath been stunned, and is of sense forlorn: A
sadder and a ....
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Trash TV
.... costs of these shows--one set, one studio, largely unpaid
guest "talent"--the .... Almost naively, as it may be said from the
sadder-but-wiser perspective of 1998 ....
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English Adaptations of Plays by Moliere
.... School for Wives, as well as Don Juan, or the Stone
Guest as works that .... does not find it essential that Arnolphe emerge from losing Agnes
sadder, nobler, wiser ....
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