One of a set of engraved metal plate illustrations by Gustave Doré: the Mariner up on the mast in a storm.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (original: The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge written in 1797–1799 and published in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads (1798). Thus modern editions use a later revised version that somewhat differs from the original. Along with other poems in Lyrical Ballads, it was a signal shift to modern poetry, and the beginnings of British Romantic literature. Image File history File links Gustave_Dore_Ancient_Mariner_Illustration. ... Image File history File links Gustave_Dore_Ancient_Mariner_Illustration. ... Hand Engraving is the act of carving decorative or functional grooves into a substrate, usually a metal plate, using hand tools such as small chisels called burin or gravers. ... Doré photographed by Felix Nadar. ... Poetry (ancient Greek: poieo = create) is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... The poor poet A poet is a person who writes poetry. ... Samuel Taylor Coleridge (October 21, 1772 – July 25, 1834) (pronounced ) was an English poet, critic, and philosopher who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England and one of the Lake Poets. ... 1797 (MDCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1799 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Lyrical Ballads, 1798, was the flame that lit the English Romantic movement, its spark being that of the somewhat earlier William Blake. ... Year 1798 (MDCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ... Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in late 18th century Western Europe. ...

Plot summary

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner relates the supernatural events experienced by a mariner on a long sea voyage. The Mariner stops a man who is on the way to a wedding ceremony, and begins to recite his story. The Wedding-Guest's reaction turns from bemusement and impatience to fascination as the Mariner's story progresses. Look up Supernatural in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article is about maritime crew. ... A bride in the South of France Nuptial is the adjective of wedding. It is used for example in zoology to denote plumage, coloration, behavior, etc related to or occurring in the mating season. ...

The Mariner's tale begins with his ship descending on their journey; despite initial good fortune, the ship is driven off course by a storm and, driven south, eventually reaches Antarctica. An albatross appears and leads them out of the Antarctic; even as the albatross is praised by the ship's crew, the Mariner shoots the bird down: (with my cross-bow / I shot the albatross). The other sailors are angry with the Mariner, as they thought the albatross brought the South Wind that led them out of the Antarctic: (Ah, wretch, said they / the bird to slay / that made the breeze to blow). However, the sailors change their minds when the weather becomes warmer and the mist disappears: ('Twas right, said they, such birds to slay / that bring the fog and mist). The crime arouses the wrath of supernatural spirits who then pursue the ship "from the land of mist and snow"; the south wind which had initially led them from the land of ice now sends the ship into uncharted waters, where it is becalmed. For other uses, see Storm (disambiguation). ... A compass rose with South highlighted South is most commonly a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography. ... This article is about the bird family. ... Look up Supernatural in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.

Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.

Here, however, the sailors change their minds again and blame the Mariner for the torment of their thirst. Ah! Well a-day! What evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead of the cross, the albatross / About my neck was hung) is metaphorically illustrating that the guilt of killing the albatross reflected when it hung around his neck, but in reality, it had plunged into the water. Eventually, in an eerie passage, the ship encounters a ghostly vessel. On board are Death (a skeleton) and the "Night-mare Life-in-Death" (a deathly-pale woman), who are playing dice for the souls of the crew. With a roll of the dice, Death wins the lives of the crew members and Life-in-Death the life of the mariner, a prize she considers more valuable. Her name is a clue as to the mariner's fate; he will endure a fate worse than death as punishment for his killing of the albatross.

One by one all of the crew members die, but the Mariner lives on, seeing for seven days and nights the curse in the eyes of the crew's corpses, whose last expressions remain upon their faces. Eventually, the Mariner's curse is lifted when he sees 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 steer the ship back home, where it sinks in a whirlpool, leaving only the Mariner behind. As penance for his deed, the Mariner is forced to wander the earth and tell his story, and teach a lesson to those he meets:

He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.

Background

The poem may have been inspired by James Cook's second voyage of exploration (1772–1775) of the South Seas and the Pacific Ocean; Coleridge's tutor, William Wales, was the astronomer on Cook's flagship and had a strong relationship with Cook. On his second voyage Cook plunged repeatedly below the Antarctic Circle to determine whether the fabled great southern continent existed.^{[citation needed]} Critics have also opined that the poem may have been inspired by the voyage of Thomas James into the Arctic. "Some critics think that Coleridge drew upon James’s account of hardship and lamentation in writing The rime of the ancient mariner."^[1] This article is about the British explorer. ... Year 1772 (MDCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1775 (MDCCLXXV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ... Resolution and Adventure with fishing craft in Matavai Bay by William Hodges, painted 1776, shows the two ships at anchor in Tahiti in August 1773. ... Zoomable PDF of the map this is based on The Antarctic Circle is one of the five major circles of latitude that mark maps of the Earth. ... Capt. ...

According to William Wordsworth, the poem was inspired whilst Coleridge, Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy were on a walking tour through the Quantock Hills in Somerset in the spring of 1798^[2]. The discussion had turned to a book that Wordsworth was reading, A Voyage Round The World by way of the Great South Sea (1726), by Captain George Shelvocke. In the book, a melancholy sailor shoots a black albatross: William Wordsworth (April 7, 1770 – April 23, 1850) was a major English romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their 1798 joint publication, Lyrical Ballads. ... Dorothy Mae Ann Wordsworth (December 25, 1771 – January 25, 1855) was an English poet and diarist. ... The Quantock Hills are a range of hills west of Bridgwater in Somerset, England. ... Events George Friderich Handel becomes a British subject. ... Captain George Shelvocke (1690-1728) was an English privateer who wrote a famous 1726 book based on his exploits, A Voyage Round the World By Way of The Great South Sea. ... This article is about the bird family. ...

We all observed, that we had not the sight of one fish of any kind, since we were come to the Southward of the streights of le Mair, nor one sea-bird, except a disconsolate black Albatross, who accompanied us for several days (...), till Hattley, (my second Captain) observing, in one of his melancholy fits, that this bird was always hovering near us, imagin'd, from his colour, that it might be some ill omen. (...) He, after some fruitless attempts, at length, shot the Albatross, not doubting we shout have a fair wind after it.

As they discussed Shelvocke's book, Wordsworth suggested to Coleridge, "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." ^[3] By the time the trio finished their walk, the poem had taken shape.

The poem may also have been inspired by the legend of the Wandering Jew, who was forced to wander the Earth until Judgement Day, for taunting Jesus on the day of the Crucifixion. Having shot the albatross the Mariner is forced to wear the bird about his neck as a symbol of guilt. Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung. This supports the idea of the Wandering Jew, who is branded with a cross as a symbol of guilt. The Wandering Jew by Gustave Doré. For other uses, see Wandering Jew (disambiguation). ...

It is also thought that Coleridge, a known user of opium, could have been under the drug's effects when he wrote some of the more strange parts of the poem, especially the Voices of The Spirits communicating with each other.^{[citation needed]} This article is about the drug. ...

The poem received mixed reviews from critics, and Coleridge was once told by the publisher that most of the book's sales were to sailors who thought it was a naval songbook. Coleridge made several modifications to the poem over the years. In the second edition of Lyrical Ballads (1800), he replaced many of the archaic words. // ON MAY 5 1853 MR.FADER HAD SEX WITH A MAN NAME MR WIEN THEN THEY HAD SON NAMEDMRS COTURE AND MR MANOOGIAN WENT INTO MRS HASKELLS OFFICE NAKED AND DANCED AROUND AND MASTERBATED ON HER CHEST AND SHE LICKED IT OFF THEN THEY HAD ORAL SEEX WITH NAPLOEAN OF...

Coleridge's comments

In Biographia Literaria XIV, Coleridge writes:

The thought suggested itself (to which of us I do not recollect) that a series of poems might be composed of two sorts. In the one, incidents and agents were to be, in part at least, supernatural, and the excellence aimed at was to consist in the interesting of the affections by the dramatic truth of such emotions, as would naturally accompany such situations, supposing them real. And real in this sense they have been to every human being who, from whatever source of delusion, has at any time believed himself under supernatural agency. For the second class, subjects were to be chosen from ordinary life...In this idea originated the plan of the ‘Lyrical Ballads’; in which it was agreed, that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic; yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith....With this view I wrote the ‘Ancient Mariner’.

In Table Talk, 1830-32, Coleridge wrote:

Mrs Barbauld tole me that the only faults she found with the Ancient Mariner were – that it was improbable and had no moral. As for the probability – to be sure that might admit some question – but I told her that in my judgment the poem had too much moral, and that too openly obtruded on the reader, It ought to have no more moral than the story of the merchant sitting down to eat dates by the side of a well and throwing the shells aside, and the Genii starting up and saying he must kill the merchant, because a date shell had put out the eye of the Genii’s son.

Wordsworth's comments

Wordsworth wrote to Joseph Cottle in 1799:

From what I can gather it seems that the Ancyent Mariner has upon the whole been an injury to the volume, I mean that the old words and the strangeness of it have deterred readers from going on. If the volume should come to a second Edition I would put in its place some little things which would be more likely to suit the common taste.

However, when Lyrical Ballads was reprinted, Wordsworth included it despite Coleridge’s objections, writing:

The Poem of my Friend has indeed great defects; first, that the principal person has no distinct character, either in his profession of Mariner, or as a human being who having been long under the control of supernatural impressions might be supposed himself to partake of something supernatural; secondly, that he does not act, but is continually acted upon; thirdly, that the events having no necessary connection do not produce each other; and lastly, that the imagery is somewhat too laboriously accumulated. Yet the Poem contains many delicate touches of passion, and indeed the passion is every where true to nature, a great number of the stanzas present beautiful images, and are expressed with unusual felicity of language; and the versification, though the metre is itself unfit for long poems, is harmonious and artfully varied, exhibiting the utmost powers of that metre, and every variety of which it is capable. It therefore appeared to me that these several merits (the first of which, namely that of the passion, is of the highest kind) gave to the Poem a value which is not often possessed by better Poems.

The gloss

In 1815 - 1816 Coleridge added to the poem marginal notes in prose that gloss the text, written in the style of a seventeenth century antiquarian. The gloss describes the poem as an account of sin and restoration. While some critics see the gloss as spelling out clearly the moral of the tale, others point to the inaccuracies and illogicalities of the gloss and interpret it as the voice of a dramatized character that only serves to highlight the poem's cruel meaninglessness.^[4] A gloss is a note made in the margins or between the lines of a book, in which the meaning of the text in its original language is explained in another language. ...

Interpretations

There are many different interpretations of the poem. Some critics believe that the poem is a metaphor of original sin in Eden with the subsequent regret of the mariner and the rain seen as a baptism.^{[citation needed]} “Original Sin” redirects here. ... For other uses, see Garden of Eden (disambiguation). ... This article is about the Christian religious act of Baptism. ...

Although the poem is often read as a Christian allegory, Jerome McGann argues that it is really a story of our salvation of Christ, rather than the other way round. The structure of the poem, according to McGann, is influenced by Coleridge's interest in Higher Criticism and its function "was to illustrate a significant continuity of meaning between cultural phenomena that seemed as diverse as pagan superstitions, Catholic theology, Aristotelian science, and contemporary philological theory, to name only a few of the work's ostentatiously present materials."^[5] Allegory of Music by Filippino Lippi. ... Image:JeromeMcGann. ... For other uses, see Salvation (disambiguation). ... Higher criticism, also known as historical criticism, is a branch of literary analysis that attempts to investigate the origins of a text, especially the text of the Bible. ...

In 1927, John Livingston Lowes published an exhaustive investigation of Coleridge's sources for the poem, as well as for "Kubla Khan". The book, entitled The Road to Xanadu, is an intriguing analysis of those sources by a man of great learning, who immersed himself in Coleridge's reading, imagination and writing. Born in Illinois in the 1880s, John Livingston Lowes first taught mathematics, then became a Professor of British Literature at Harvard in the 1920s. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

In popular culture

A statue of the Ancient Mariner with the albatross hung from his neck at Watchet Harbour, Somerset, England, unveiled in September 2003 as a tribute to Coleridge.

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Literature

• The character Namor of Marvel Comics was inspired by this comic.
• In Chapter Twelve of C. S. Lewis' The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Aslan the Great Lion takes the form of an albatross to guide the Dawn Treader to safety.
• In James M. Cain's crime novel Double Indemnity, Phyllis is described as the creature who came on board ship to shoot dice in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." She dresses up in a red shroud and pale makeup.
• In My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell, his brother, the writer Larry, confuses an albatross with a gull and interprets it to be a sign of misfortune. The poem is mentioned by name.
• In Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice, Claudia is described with the following verse:

Her lips were red, her looks were free

Her locks were yellow as gold

Her skin was as white as leprosy

The Night-mare Life-in-death was she

Who thicks man's blood with cold

• In Clive Cussler's novel Iceberg several references are made to the poem and it is quoted several times. The villain's company logo is the albatross.
• The poem features prominently in the plot of Douglas Adams's novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
• A portion of the poem was recited by Wonder Woman as the body of the Viking Prince and his longship were sent into the Sun, during the Justice League Unlimited episode "To Another Shore".
• In issue #36 ("Boy Loses Girl") of Y: The Last Man, Hero Brown, referring to her brother Yorick Brown, tells Beth Deville "...don't let him become an albatross, you know?"
• In Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins, the poem "Workshop" describes how the title of the work in question gets the author's attention "like the Ancient Mariner grabbing me by the sleeve"
• In Lights Out by Peter Abrahams, the protagonist Eddie Nye has memorized the poem during his 15 years in prison. He ponders many aspects of the poem as his own story unfolds. The plot of the novel reflects several aspects of the poem.
• In Chapter 7 of Bram Stoker's Dracula, it is mentioned in reference to the arrival of the doomed Russian schooner The Demeter.
• The cartoonist Hunt Emerson produced a graphic novel illustrating the poem, and featuring his usual quota of visual puns, gags and grotesque caricatures. The text, however, is essentially used verbatim.
• The poem is referenced in the chapter titled "Campus of interzone university" in William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch.
• In James Tiptree, Jr.'s SF short story Painwise, the protagonist says, "Her lips were red, her locks were free, her locks were yellow as gold... The Night-Mare Life-in-Death was she, who thicks man's blood with cold."
• Comic book author Bill Everett based his most famous character, the Sub-Mariner, on this poem.^[6]
• In Carol Ann Duffy's The World's Wife, the poem "Thetis" contains a verse with relation to Coleridge's original poem:

Then I did this:

Shouldered the cross of an albatross

up the hill of the sky,

Why? To follow a ship.

But I felt my wings

clipped by the squint of a crossbow's eye.

• The poem is heavily referred to in the Connie Willis SF novel Passage.
• In the book Club Dead by Charlaine Harris the main character, Sookie Stackhouse, quotes the lines, "Water, water, everywhere / Nor any drop to drink" when she is surrounded by very attractive but homosexual men.
• The lines 5 to 10 serve as a part of the motto of the fantasy novel about pirates On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers.
• In Garth Nix's Keys to the Kingdom series, the Mariner is an ancient and powerful being. He claims his real name is Captain Tom Shelvocke, and he mentions accidentally shooting an albatross.
• In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, chapter Five, Victor Frankenstein quotes the lines "Like one, that on a lonesome road / Doth walk in fear and dread / And, having once turned round, walks on / And turns no more his head / Because he knows a frightful fiend / Doth close behind him tread" (Penguin Popular Classic 1968 page 57, cited from Rime, 1817 edition)
• Gene Wolfe's SF novella The Fifth Head of Cerberus uses as its motto the lines "When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow, / And the owlet whoops to the wolf below, / That eats the she-wolf's young".

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Television and film

• Ken Russell directed a film about Coleridge called The Rime of the Ancient Mariner [1] in 1978 for British Granada Television.
• In the film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World an attempt is made to shoot an albatross which leads to negative results.
• The poem is extensively featured in the film Pandaemonium, which is based on the early lives of Coleridge, Dorothy Wordsworth and William Wordsworth.
• In the film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, the character Willy Wonka says "Bubbles, bubbles, everywhere, but not a drop to drink...yet."
• The theme song from Gilligan's Island shares the same rhyme scheme as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
• In Richard O'Brien's Shock Treatment, the character Betty Hapschatt recites the entire poem to Judge Oliver Wright who, along with an entire theater of people, has fallen asleep by its closing lines. When the lights are turned back on, the security guard Vance threateningly presents her with a dead white bird.
• In the ITV1/A&E nautical adventure series Hornblower, Captain Sir Edward Pellew quotes "As idle as a painted ship / Upon a painted ocean" when his own frigate is becalmed in the episode "The Frogs and the Lobsters".
• In The Wizard of Oz, the Wizard says to the Scarecrow, "Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain!"
• In the season one episode of seaQuest DSV entitled "Hide and Seek", Captain Bridger quotes from the poem in order to convince Commander Ford that it is the correct course of action to allow an ex-dictator named Tezlof (as well as Tezlof's autistic son) safe passage on the seaQuest.
• Joss Whedon wove the major themes of this epic poem through the TV series Firefly and the film Serenity.^{[citation needed]} The significance of the albatross in this setting becomes clear when a character tries to have (Malcolm Reynolds) sell out a crew mate, comparing her to the fabled bird. He then gives the line, "Way I remember it...albatross was a ship's good luck till some idiot killed it." Then, in typical Whedonesque fashion, he turns to Inara Serra and states, "Yes, I've read a poem. Try not to faint."
• In The Ice Dream, an irreverent Australian talk show covering the 2002 Winter Olympics, the hosts said that a curse had been put on Australia's Winter Olympic team after Cedric Sloane skewered a seagull in a cross-country skiing event at the Oslo Winter Olympics, which could only be lifted by the team winning a gold medal.
• In The Simpsons episode "Boy-Scoutz N the Hood", Homer Simpson says "Don't you know the poem? 'Water, water, everywhere, so let's all have a drink.'"
• There is a 1952 Looney Tunes short entitled "Water, Water Every Hare".
• In the "Super Trivia" episode of the television show Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Master Shake says to both Meatwad and Frylock that they're "Albacores around my neck," which Frylock corrects by replying "that's Albatross!"
• In Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl the crew share a similar curse to that of the Ancient Mariner.
• In Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, something happens that is quite comparable to "playing dice for the souls of the crew."
• The Rescuers series has an albatross as the means of airtravel.
• In the film Out of Africa Denys Finch-Hatton quotes from the Rime of the Ancient Mariner as he washes Karen's hair. She says "you're skipping verses" and he replies "Well, I leave out the dull parts".
• In the third last episode of the Australian television series Seachange, Max compares the failure of his relationship with Laura to the Mariner shooting down the Albatross.
• In episode 37 of Pokémon, "Stage Fight", a trainer aboard a ship recites the opening stanza of the ballad to her Raichu.
• In Samurai Jack, the ancient mariner approaches Jack and the Scotsman asking if they want to hear a story. After expounding on the tale's subject matter, he tells them that it's called The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, to which the Scotsman replies; "I've heard it." much to the mariner's bewilderment.

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Music

• "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is a 14-minute epic song on the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden's album Powerslave, based on Coleridge's poem with many direct quotes.
• Fleetwood Mac's hit song "Albatross" drew its title from the poem, as the composer Peter Green read the poem when he was at school.
• The album cover of Australian singer Sarah Blasko's album What The Sea Wants, The Sea Will Have was inspired by an illustration of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. A song from the album, "Queen of Apology", features the line "Truth, truth, everywhere, but not a drop to drink." The album also features a song titled "The Albatross".
• A song "Good Morning Captain" from the album Spiderland by US underground rock band Slint is an adaptation of the poem.
• Cecil F. Alexander hymn "All Things Bright and Beautiful", published in 1848, contains the following refrain which echoes the sentiment of the Ancient Mariner:

All things bright and beautiful,

All creatures great and small,

All things wise and wonderful:

The Lord God made them all.

• Shane MacGowan of the Irish punk rock band The Pogues makes reference to "a minstrel... stoppeth one in three" in the song "Fiesta". The Pogues song The Turkish Song of the Damned is also based heavily on the poem, adopting the same meter and including many direct quotes and references.
• The Flogging Molly song "Rebels of the Sacred Heart" has the line "the albatross hangin' round your neck is the cross you bear for your sins."
• The band Corrosion of Conformity has a song called Albatross, in which the lyricist warns the albatross away. The lyricist also states, "I believe the albatross is me".
• Hip Hop group People Under The Stairs released a fake leak of their Stepfather album on the Internet, in which they recite the entire Rime of The Ancient Mariner over a back beat.
• David Bedford recorded a concept album The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in 1975. An experimental work, it consists of two parts of the poem set to music, and is similar in style to a dramatic reading of the poem.
• The title track of pirate-themed rap group Captain Dan & the Scurvy Crew's second album, Rimes of the Hip-Hop Mariners, was a stylized retelling of the main events of the poem.

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Other

• Baseball pitcher Diego Segui, who was pitching for the Seattle Mariners at the age of 40, was tagged by sportswriters as "The Ancient Mariner". Twenty years later, Jamie Moyer inherited the nickname.
• Since 1978, the U.S. Coast Guard has recognized the active duty member with the most accumulated time aboard its ships and an exemplary character as the "Ancient Mariner", as noted in the list of USCG Medals and Awards (pdf).
• In the collectible/playable card game Magic: The Gathering, there is a card named and fashioned after the Will o' the Wisp described in the poem; the card even features flavor text with a pertinent excerpt from the poem:

About, about in reel and rout,

The death-fires danced at night;

The water, like a witch's oils,

Burnt green, and blue and white

• Another card from Magic: The Gathering called "Scathe Zombies" features another quote:

They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose,

Nor spake nor moved their eyes;

It had been strange even in a dream,

To have seen those dead men rise.

• And yet another card from Magic: The Gathering called "Wall of Ice" features another quote:

And through the drifts the snowy clifts

Did send a dismal sheen:

Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken--

the ice was all between

• A card from the Magic: The Gathering "Homelands Set", called "Giant Albatross", has the special ability to destroy all creatures that are damaged by it. The controller of that creature could pay two life points to prevent this special effect, injuring himself to save a creature he controls. As a result the Giant Albatross is put into the discard pile when played.
• In the computer game Marathon Infinity, one of the levels is named "One thousand thousand slimy things", a line in the poem.
• The Ancient Mariner is set to appear as a figure in the game Horrorclixs Nightmares set.
• In the online computer game Guild Wars the opening lines of an NPC's dialogue, the NPC himself, and the name of the quest he is involved in all reference the poem and the author. ^{[citation needed]}
• In the video game Final Fantasy X-2, Buddy relates a story to Yuna in which he and Brother were lost in a frozen wasteland and guided to their airship by a gull, which they killed and ate afterwards.
• In the online game World of Warcraft the "Crossbow of the Albatross" is a reward for completing the quest "Show Gnomercy", the final quest in a chain for the stranded crew of a ship on Azuremyst Isle.

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References

• Gardner, Martin, The Annotated Ancient Mariner, New York: Clarkson Potter, 1965; Reprinted by Prometheus Books, 19??, ISBN 1-59102-125-1

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• "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" as a graphic novel by Hunt Emerson and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Abstracts of literary criticism of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• GradeSaver study guide with background on The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• Modern edition of the text was printed in 1920 by ed. Emile-Paul Frères, Paris; under the title: "The Rhyme of the Ancyent Marinere, in seven parts" ; illustrated with engravings by French pre-cubist painter André Lhote. This edition has become a classical "livre club", typical work of French bibliophily in the early 20th century (printed 766 ex.)