After reading and reciting some of the lines of the ballad The Ancient Mariner I can say it was a confusing ballad to read because you had to infer a lot of sruff and have a lot of background knowledge. The good part about this ballad is that it is short and the reader doesn’t have to remember it for a long time. Moving on to the recitation, I found it really easy to memorize what we had to, but struggled a little bit on the recitation part and staying on character. Overall, in my opinion it was an average story and I will forget about it really soon.