The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

So why did the Ancient Mariner shoot the Albatross? To me the answer is simple. He did it because he could; he did it because is he is a man, and that’s what men do: he saw something beautiful; he saw perfection in nature, and he killed it. That’s humanity for you. Sinning is easily, as quickly as a......more

Who we start out as and who we end up as has always seemed to me to be the central point of this poem. One can often return to a physical place - but in the returning find that place lost - due to the way their journey has changed their soul. Looking for salvation one often finds that (in the findin......more

Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold. When I did construction work this is what I always wrote on the inside of the Port-a-Potties, amongst all the other graffiti and a......more

If all poetry books were like this, I would never read any prose. ____________________________________________ I was thinking about the Ancient Mariner just now, apropos Kris's review of Ice, and recalled an incident from a project I was once involved in. The person in charge failed to renew the contr......more

A poem which heavily influenced modern Western culture Review of free Kindle edition A Public Domain Book Publication Date May 16, 2012 Language: English ASIN: B0083Z49HO 36 pages I hated this thing in high school. The homework assignment to read it was interesting but the pain began in the next day's clas......more