“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

1. (1798) A poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about an old sailor who is compelled to tell strangers about the supernatural adventures that befell him at sea after he killed an albatross, a friendly sea bird. A famous line is “Water, water, everywhere, / Nor any drop to drink.” (See albatross around one's neck.)

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The harbour was inspiration for Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and that statue attracts many visitors.

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In terms of exegesis, only an extended riff about a subway panhandler and “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” feels a bit overplayed.

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This transgression against the dead — or the delusion of such — fills the story with a mythic affliction that recalls the old sailor’s in Samuel Coleridge’s epic poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”

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Among the more interesting experiments with poetry is an online, all-star reading of Samuel Colerdige’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” commissioned by the Arts Institute of the University of Plymouth.

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Roaring out of the radical 1790s, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a founding fable for our time.

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