How is the Rime of the Ancient Mariner a strange tale?Use examples from the poem to explain the answer

“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Coleridge is
“strange” in at least two respects.

Primarily,
there is something unusual in the way in which the Mariner gets the attention of the man
listening to the story.  The listener is on his way to a wedding, to which he has been
invited as a guest.  At first he tries to get away from the Mariner, but he becomes
“hypnotized” by the glittering in the eye of the latter. So he stays and listens,
mesmerized almost against his will.

In another
respect, the tale itself is strange. The Albatross represents the start of the
supernatural events occurring on the Mariner’s ship.  First, it brings good fortune,
even after it is shot.  Subsequently, it is strange when all the crew except the Mariner
himself die.  They then supernaturally return to the ship, after which it sails so fast
that the Mariner goes into a trance.  The culmination of all this is that the Mariner
seeks someone to hear his confession.

The
central strangeness of the poem is therefore the supernatural element, both in the way
the narrator tells his story, and in the story itself.