"stage of the mariner's curse is lifted after he appreciates the sea creatures swimming in the water. Despite his cursing them as ""slimy things"" earlier in the poem, he suddenly sees their true beauty and blesses them (""a spring of love gush'd from my heart, and I bless'd them unaware""); suddenly, as he manages to pray, the albatross falls from his neck and his guilt is partially expiated. The bodies of the crew, possessed by good spirits, rise again and help steer the ship. In a trance, the mariner hears two spirits discussing his voyage and penance, and learns that"
"sea and breeding in isolated colonies. However, some seabirds, particularly, the albatrosses and gulls, have broken into popular consciousness. The albatrosses have been described as ""the most legendary of birds"", and have a variety of myths and legends associated with them, and today it is widely considered unlucky to harm them, although the notion that sailors believed that is a myth that derives from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem, ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"", in which a sailor is punished for killing an albatross by having to wear its corpse around his neck. ""Instead of the Cross the Albatross"""
"to tutelary spirits: ""Suppose you represent him as having killed one of these birds on entering the south sea, and the tutelary spirits of these regions take upon them to avenge the crime."" By the time the trio finished their walk, the poem had taken shape. Bernard Martin argues in ""The Ancient Mariner and the Authentic Narrative"" that Coleridge was also influenced by the life of Anglican clergyman John Newton, who had a near-death experience aboard a slave ship. The poem may also have been inspired by the legends of the Wandering Jew, who was forced to wander the earth"
"the albatrosses by Linnaeus, references the mythical metamorphosis of the companions of the Greek warrior Diomedes into birds. Finally, the name for the order, Procellariiformes, comes from the Latin word ""procella"" meaning ""a violent wind"" or ""a storm"". Albatrosses have been described as ""the most legendary of all birds"". An albatross is a central emblem in ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; a captive albatross is also a metaphor for the ""poète maudit ""in a poem by Charles Baudelaire. The albatross metaphor is derived from the Coleridge poem; someone bearing a burden or facing an obstacle"
"is said to have ""an albatross around his neck"", the punishment given in the poem to the mariner who killed the albatross. A widespread myth holds that sailors believe shooting or harming an albatross is disastrous, due in part to the poem; in truth, sailors regularly killed and ate them, as reported by James Cook in 1772. However, sailors reportedly caught the birds but let them free again; the possible reason is that albatrosses were often regarded as the souls of lost sailors, so killing them was supposed to bring bad luck. The head of an albatross being caught with"
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of ""Lyrical Ballads"". Some modern editions use a revised version printed in 1817 that featured a gloss. Along with other poems in ""Lyrical Ballads"", it is often considered a signal shift to modern poetry and the beginning of British Romantic literature. ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"" relates the experiences of a sailor who has returned from a"
"and begins to sink. The man is then seen adrift in a Lusitania lifeboat only to be picked up decades later by the SS ""Andrea Doria"". The Rime of the Ancient Mariner The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of ""Lyrical Ballads"". Some modern editions use a revised version printed in 1817 that featured a gloss. Along with other poems in ""Lyrical Ballads"", it is often considered a signal shift to"
"omen"" is familiar to readers of Coleridge's ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"". The metaphor of ""an albatross around his neck"" also comes from the poem and indicates an unwanted burden causing anxiety or hindrance. In the days of sail the bird often accompanied ships for days, not merely following it, but wheeling in wide circles around it without ever being observed to land on the water. It continued its flight, apparently untired, in tempestuous as well as moderate weather. The Maori of New Zealand used albatross as a food source. They caught them by baiting hooks. Because the wing"
"Albatross (metaphor) The word albatross is sometimes used metaphorically to mean a psychological burden that feels like a curse. It is an allusion to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"" (1798). In the poem, an albatross starts to follow a ship — being followed by an albatross was generally considered a sign of good luck. However, the titular mariner shoots the albatross with a crossbow, which is regarded as an act that will curse the ship (which indeed suffers terrible mishaps). Even when they are too thirsty to speak, the ship's crew let the mariner know"
"through their glances that they blame his action for the curse. The albatross is then literally hung around the mariner's neck by the crew to symbolize his guilt in killing the bird. Thus, the albatross can be both an omen of good or bad luck, as well as a metaphor for a burden to be carried as penance. The symbolism used in the Coleridge poem is its highlight. For example: This sense is catalogued in the ""Oxford English Dictionary"" from 1936 and 1955, but it seems only to have entered general usage in the 1960s, or possibly as early as"
"imperious insect with her oratory skills in ""The Mariner's Tale"", a dark poem more akin to How Doth the Little Crocodile than the You Are Old, Father William poem she quoted for the Caterpillar in Carroll's original book. The Caterpillar gives his earnest (if somewhat slanted) critique of her recital in the 5th verse (""The Subjective Review"") before taking flight on mechanical wings (as depicted in the accompanying illustration). The 5th verse finds Alice in familiar company once again with ""The Cook, the Pig, the Cat & His Duchess"", as the Cheshire Cat tells her the tale of the conflict"
"Simon Hatley Simon Hatley (27 March 1685after 1723) was an English sailor involved in two hazardous privateering voyages to the South Pacific Ocean. On the second voyage, with his ship beset by storms south of Cape Horn, Hatley shot an albatross, an incident immortalised by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his poem, ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."" Born in 1685 in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, Hatley went to sea in 1708 as part of Woodes Rogers's expedition against the Spanish. Although Rogers circumnavigated the world, Hatley was captured on the coast of present-day Ecuador and imprisoned in Lima, where he was tortured"
"keep his word: having promised to send fifty ships, he actually sent only one, while the rest were sculpted from earth, with figures of men (also made of earth) imitating the crew. He was cursed by Agamemnon and subsequently punished by Apollo, who beat him in a musical contest (similar to that between Apollo and Marsyas, to see who was a better musician with a lyre) and killed him, whereupon Cinyras' fifty daughters threw themselves into the sea and were changed into sea birds (alcyones). According to Ovid, Cinyras' daughter Myrrha, impelled by an unnatural lust for her own father"
"the lock. The city falls and Scylla, lamenting Minos' refusal to marry her, is taken prisoner on the Cretan ships which sail around Attica. The poet describes her metamorphosis in detail; by the pitying Amphitrite she is transformed into the ""ciris"" bird, supposedly from the Greek ""keirein"" (""cut""). Jupiter transforms Nisus into a sea-eagle, which pursues the ""ciris"" like Scorpio pursues Orion. Based on composition, the poem must be placed after Ovid and before the 2nd century. A Tiberian date seems likely for its composition. This poem in 38 elegiac couplets describes the song of the barmaid Syrisca. She describes"
"The Ancient Mariner (film) The Ancient Mariner is a 1925 American fantasy-drama silent film based on the popular poem, ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798. The film was directed by Henry Otto and Chester Bennett, and it was adapted for the screen by Eve Unsell. The film stars Clara Bow, Gladys Brockwell, Nigel De Brulier and was distributed by Fox Film Corporation. The film is presumed to be lost. The official plot synopsis, as provided by the Fox Film Corporation to the copyright registration office and then entered at the Library of"
"Post Office and a Fellow of the Royal Society. In his book Shelvocke described an event wherein his second captain, Simon Hatley, shot a black albatross while the ""Speedwell"" was attempting to round Cape Horn in severe storms. Hatley took the giant sea bird to be a bad omen, and hoped that by killing it he might bring about a break in the weather. Some seventy years later the episode would become the inspiration for the central plot device in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's narrative poem ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"". Coleridge's friend and fellow poet William Wordsworth shared the"
"the Ancient Mariner"", which in turn gave rise to the usage of albatross as metaphor for a burden. More generally, albatrosses were believed to be good omens, and to kill one would bring bad luck. There are few instances of petrels in culture, although there are sailors' legends regarding the storm petrels, which are considered to warn of oncoming storms. In general, petrels were considered to be ""soul birds"", representing the souls of drowned sailors, and it was considered unlucky to touch them. In the Russian language, many petrel species from the Hydrobatidae and Pelecanoididae families of the order Procellariiformes"
"death of Lycidas. This marks the beginning of the elegy and its subsequent presence throughout the poem. The poem rehearses the typical conventions of the pastoral elegy: nature's lament, the questioning of nymphs, repeated invocations of the muses, descriptions of flowers, and an apotheosis of the deceased. A series of other speakers interrupt the swain's mourning to interject their own thoughts and concerns into the poem. These speakers include Phoebus, the classical sun god, who also represents poetry; and ""the pilot of the Galilean Sea,"" St. Peter, whose ""dread voice"" momentarily banishes the pastoral mood of the poem while prophesying"
"Catullus 4 Catullus 4 is a poem by the ancient Roman writer Catullus. The poem concerns the retirement of a well-traveled ship (referred to as a """"phaselus"""", also sometimes cited as """"phasellus"""", a variant spelling). Catullus draws a strong analogy with human aging, rendering the boat as a person that flies and speaks, with palms (the oars) and purpose. The poem is complex, with numerous geographic references and elaborate litotic double negatives in a list-like manner. It borrows heavily from Ancient Greek vocabulary, and also uses Greek grammar in several sections. The meter of the poem is unusual — iambic"
"sailed for Jamaica, then a den of pirates, without presenting himself to the owners of the Shelvocke expedition. Nothing is known of him thereafter; Fowke speculated he continued as a sailor. According to William Wordsworth, the poem ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"" was conceived while he and Coleridge were walking together in the Quantock Hills of Somerset in November 1797. The two were considering the fate of Cain, condemned to wander the earth for killing his brother Abel, for a contemplated joint poetic work. The discussion turned to a book that Wordsworth was reading, Shelvocke's ""A Voyage Round the"
"he will assist her in crossing. The two tie themselves together with some string and proceed to swim. However, as they start across the stream the paddock swims downwards with the intention of drowning the mouse; the mouse decries the creature's deception, but struggles upwards to prevent herself from drowning. Seeing the struggle is a nearby kite. The bird flies down and grabs the two—as they are bound together—and carries them away, where he kills and disembowels them, though they do not satiate his appetite much. The Paddock and the Mouse ""The Paddock and the Mouse"" is a poem by"
"Fastitocalon (poem) ""Fastitocalon"" is a poem by J. R. R. Tolkien about a large sea turtle. The setting is explicitly Middle-earth. The poem is included in ""The Adventures of Tom Bombadil"". The poem is a much-revised version of an earlier poem by Tolkien, also entitled ""Fastitocalon"", published in the ""Stapeldon Magazine"" in 1927. The central character of the earlier poem is a whale, and told a similar story to that of the Old English poem ""The Whale"", where indeed the name ""Fastitocalon"" appears. As such, Tolkien imported the traditional tale of the ""aspidochelone"" into the lore of his Middle-earth. Fastitocalon,"
"the poem, which is recited by Tweedledum and Tweedledee to Alice. Walking upon a beach one night when both sun and moon are visible, the Walrus and Carpenter come upon an offshore bed of oysters. Groups of four are called up; the exact number is unknown. To the disapproval of the eldest oyster, many more follow them. After walking along the beach (a point is made of the fact that the oysters are all neatly shod despite having no feet), the two main characters are revealed to be predatory and eat all of the oysters. After hearing the poem, the"
"The Conqueror Worm ""The Conqueror Worm"" is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe about human mortality and the inevitability of death. It was first published separately in ""Graham's Magazine"" in 1843, but quickly became associated with Poe's short story ""Ligeia"" after Poe added the poem to a revised publication of the story in 1845. In the revised story, the poem is composed by the eponymous Ligeia, and taught to the narrator in the fits of her death throes. An audience of weeping angels watches a play performed by ""mimes, in the form of God on high"", and controlled by vast"
"The Seagull (poem) ""The Seagull"" (Welsh: ""Yr Wylan"") is a love poem in 30 lines by the 14th-century Welsh poet Dafydd ap Gwilym, probably written in or around the 1340s. Dafydd is widely seen as the greatest of the Welsh poets, and this is one of his best-known and best-loved works. The poet addresses and praises a seagull flying over the waves, comparing it to, among other things, a gauntlet, a ship at anchor, a sea-lily, and a nun. He asks it to find a girl whom he compares to Eigr and who can be found on the ramparts of"
"birds — exiled from the skies and then weighed down by their giant wings, till death. Finally, in Herman Melville's ""Moby-Dick"", there is a reference to Coleridge's albatross which is extended to fit the narrative's focus on the symbolic connotations of whiteness. See ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"" in popular culture. Even in the poem ""Snake"" by D.H. Lawrence he mentions the killing of Albatross by the mariner. In music journalism, the term ""albatross"" is sometimes used metaphorically to describe the mixed blessing and curse of a song that becomes so popular it overshadows the rest of the artist's"
"An anonymous reviewer for the ""Philadelphia Bulletin"" wrote at the time, ""except for a bit of slowness in the unwinding of the theme, the cinema version of Coleridge's famous poem is an entertaining photoplay"". Another anonymous review in the ""Public Ledger"" said the film ""is divided into a modern story and an allegory, and it is in the latter that the picture is most realistic and impressive"". The Ancient Mariner (film) The Ancient Mariner is a 1925 American fantasy-drama silent film based on the popular poem, ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798."
"Crow and Pie Crow and Pie is Child ballad 111. It is one of the oldest preserved ballads, dating to c. 1500. Pie is the now-obsolete original name for the magpie, a bird often connected with sorrow and misfortune. The crow is a scavenger, often thought of as feeding upon the bodies of men hanged or slain in battle, and thus associated with unhallowed and violent death. A man encounters a woman in the woods and tries to seduce her, first offering her his love, then a ring and a velvet purse. In each case she repulses him, saying ""the"
"the bird. When the king is presented with the firebird he demands that the archer fetch the Princess Vassilissa so the king may marry her; otherwise, the archer will be killed. The archer goes to the princess' lands and drugs her with wine to bring her back to the king. The king is pleased and rewards the archer; however, when the princess awakes and realizes she is not home she begins to weep. If she is to be married she wants her wedding dress, which is under a rock in the middle of the Blue Sea. Once again the archer"
"based on the ""real language of men"", and which avoids the poetic diction of much 18th-century poetry. Here, Wordsworth gives his famous definition of poetry, as ""the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings"" which ""takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility."" The poems in ""Lyrical Ballads"" were mostly by Wordsworth, though Coleridge contributed, one of the great poems of English literature, the long ""Rime of the Ancient Mariner"", a tragic ballad about the survival of one sailor through a series of supernatural events on his voyage through the South Seas, and which involves the symbolically significant slaying of an albatross."
"Eärendil Eärendil the Mariner (pronounced ) is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. He is depicted in ""The Silmarillion"", as a child of Men and Elves and a great seafarer who, on his brow, carried the morning star, a jewel called a Silmaril, across the sky. ""Eärendil"" means 'Lover of the Sea' in Tolkien's invented language of Quenya. However, Tolkien borrowed the name from Old English literature. Tolkien states (""Letters, 297"") that the name comes from Anglo-Saxon ""éarendel"". He was struck by its ""great beauty"" c. 1913, which he perceived as There is a poem by"
"her. Another version suggested the man, Tristram Bird, fell in love with her and asked her to marry him, though she refused. In his rage he shot her. Another suggestion is that a fisherman, Tom Yeo, shot her because he thought she was a seal. The ending of the legend is generally similar. With her dying breath, she levelled a curse at Padstow, or at the harbour itself, stating that the harbour will be desolate or unsafe. With that, a great storm came, wrecking many boats and creating the great sand bank known as the Doom Bar. Within the bounds"
"the Twelve Apostles was built, which was in turn flanked and replaced by a new cathedral dedicated to St. Lawrence martyr, in Romanesque style. As a boy, Saint Syrus is reputed to have brought his pet blackbird back to life by means of his saliva. Later, walking with his father in the hills above, he wished that a boat making for port might be still, whereupon the wind died and the ship came to a halt as if at anchor. Asking his father for permission to go on board, St. Syrus expressed his wish the boat might land, whereupon the"