Question

Read the passage. “Too quick for groan or sigh, Each turned his face with a ghastly pang And cursed me with his eye.… (And I heard nor sigh nor groan) With heavy thump, a lifeless lump, They dropped down one by one.” In Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” why doesn’t the Mariner hear any of the men sigh or groan as they die? They turn away and won’t look or speak to the Mariner. They are cursing him instead of sighing and groaning. They were making too much noise thumping on the deck. They sicken and die too quickly to make any sound.

Answer 1

The answer could be they are cursing him instead of sighing and groaning because in the poem he says: "Each turned his face with a ghastly pang, and cursed me with his eye..."

Answer 2

The passage posted above is taken from “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” which was written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and based on this passage, the reason why the Mariner never heard any of the men groan nor sigh upon their deaths is that they turned away and chose not to look nor speak to the Mariner. The answer is the first option.