“I closed my lids,and kept them close,

And the balls like pulses beat.”

 

This is the metaphor that i have chosen from part the fourth. I think it describes the feeling when you’re scared you can feel your heart pumping in your body.

The mariner might be scared for the following reasons;

The dead men are laying at his feet and he would probably feel guilty.

Another reason the mariner might feel scared is because he looked to the heaven and tried to pray and realised that he couldn’t. He might feel panicked because when he tried to pray to God he couldn’t find his voice.