What final decision do the mariners make

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Question 1. Who are the Lotos-eaters?

Question 2. What mood is established in the opening stanzas of the poem? What language establishes this mood?

Question 3. What happens to those who eat the lotos fruit? What decisions have the mariners made due to the effect of the lotos?

Question 4. The mariners themselves take up the narrative voice in the "Choric Song;" what is their complaint as expressed in Stanzas 2 and 3 of their song?

Question 5. Stanza 4 suggests the conflict between escape (a materialist imperative) and action (spiritual imperative): "Death is the end of life; ah, why / Should life all labor be?" How does this quote and the rest of the stanza rationalize evading the struggle of human existence all together?

Question 6. Stanza VI explores the problem of mutability, a theme near and dear to British 19th century thought. What attitudes toward their families are expressed in Stanza VI? What rationale do they use to avoid returning home?

Question 7. What final decision do the mariner's make? Assuming that this poem is a response to the crisis of faith facing Victorian England, what attitude do these characters embody?

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