Tuesday, March 19, 2013
The Rime of The Ancient Mariner
I've been reading (and thoroughly enjoying) Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams. Throughout the book Adams references a classic poem by Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."
I was completely unfamiliar with the poem and began to feel I was missing out on some of the Dirk Gently fun as a result. So I grabbed a copy of the poem and started reading. I was shocked by how awesome this poem was. Truly haunting and exciting to read. Yes, the language is antiquated and forces the rhymes at times (pun intended), but Coleridge pumps out a vivid tale with cinematic drama and detail. Not only was the poem fun to read, but it is the source material for many common references and phrases of which I'd always gotten the gist, but never understood their true meaning and origin.
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