It’s all in Part IV of the Rime. The ship is becalmed, the sea is rancid, the crew are dead, and the Mariner—albatross slung Björk-ishly around his neck—is sitting on the deck in a state of ...

Had I from old and young! Instead of the cross, the albatross About my neck was hung. —Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” I commend to your attention the recent ...

As punishment, the crew makes the mariner wear the corpse of the albatross around his neck. The ship then encounters the embodiments of "Death" and "Life-in-Death." In a dice game, death wins the ...

much in the way that the Rime of the Ancient Mariner's albatross is a burden around his neck. And... reopening Alcatraz again could be once again an albatross or a burden on the federal budget ...

There’s the adage “an albatross around your neck,” meaning an inescapable hardship. The term can be traced to the 1798 Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ...

It is widely thought that an albatross can bring luck to sailors. The avian creature also appears in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” The poem is interpreted ...

Some Swifties have even wondered whether she is making a direct reference to the albatross in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by the 19th-century tortured poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...

much in the way that the Rime of the Ancient Mariner’s albatross is a burden around his neck. And... reopening Alcatraz again could be once again an albatross or a burden on the federal budget ...