has someone heard of this poem called rhime of the ancient mariner
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has someone heard of this poem called rhime of the ancient mariner
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Yes, I have. Haven't read it or studied it, though.
Here is a useful looking site if your intention is to study or understand it.
Yes I have heard if it :)
you can search the text by word(s) too!
http://www.online-literature.com/coleridge/646/
But of course. :thumbs_up The (very) short version:Quote:
Originally Posted by urooj
A young man on his way to his wedding is stopped by an old sailor who insists on telling him a story: He and his ship was pushed towards the South Pole by a storm. One day an albatross turns up, and while the other sailors greet it as a sign of life and hope, this sailor shoots it with a crossbow. As a result the ship is cursed.
Tell me: What prompted your question?
/Claes
Oh yes! I stumbled upon this poem in high school, hidden deeply in an ancient section of the library, covered in dust :lol: . I loved it then, and i still love it now. To quote the Good Claes! "What Prompted your question?"
its in my syllabus.thanks everyone.is the phrase-'albatross around one's neck' derived from this poem?
Indeed it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by urooj
thanks for your help.Quote:
Originally Posted by MikeK
You might want to look up IRON MAIDEN's version of the poem, it's a thirteen minute song. Very good song that incorporates parts of the poem. :)
This poem actually came up at my family dinner table two nights ago. There was debate as to whether an "ablatross around one's neck" was actually a saying or if my mom was just completely mixing up expressions. Lol, thanks for the answer!
I also studied this poem at school and am now studying it again at university. It appears in Wordsworth and Coleridge's "Lyrical Ballads", the work generally seen as introducing the Romantic movement, although William Blake had previously written "romantic" poems. It is probably one of the finest English poems written in the 18th century.
I just finished reading this poem for the second time in as many days, and I would love to talk to anybody about it. :D
I can't agree or disagree with that, but I do know that I greatly enjoyed it. Do you have any favourites from the poem, or anything you want to discuss?Quote:
Originally Posted by charlotte smith
Hi are you doing IGCSE? We have to do it in new zealand as well and i have to say its a LOt harder than Kubla Khan. Btw nice seeing other indians on the site.
Hello there bcthighs. Have you read or are you studying the poem? :)
we studied it last year to get ready for our igcse exam on english which is in around two weeks. We studied it again this year as well. I had a really good english teacher last year who gave us a lot of notes and went into great detail about the poem. He even gave after school lessons and focused on symbolism, the romantic imagination etc. This year, with our new teacher, we havent gone into nearly as much depth, even though we were supposed to. Its a good poem but remembering quotes is hard