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Coleridge’s poem\u00a0the\u00a0Rime of the Ancient Mariner<\/em> has been frequently associated and used in the context of popular cultural media throughout the ages. Some of the following poem mentions may be surprising, or perhaps not. Let us know if we have missed any mentions!<\/p>\n

Literature:<\/span><\/h4>\n
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  • In\u00a0Edward Albee’s play\u00a0Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?<\/i>, Martha, in revealing to Nick that she devised a plan to get married to one of the college staff, remarks that “I wasn’t the albatross”.<\/li>\n
  • In\u00a0Brian Keene’s novel\u00a0The Conqueror Worms<\/i>, the character Salty mentions that it is bad luck to kill an albatross. The narrator, Teddy, also speaks of how “The Ancient Mariner was sent an albatross …\u00a0Noah\u00a0was sent a dove”, while he himself was sent a crow.<\/li>\n
  • In\u00a0Anne Rice’s novel\u00a0Interview with the Vampire<\/i>, Louis de Pointe du Lac quoted these lines when referring to Claudia: “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”.<\/i><\/li>\n
  • In\u00a0James M. Cain’s crime novel\u00a0Double Indemnity<\/i>, Phyllis is described as the creature who came on board ship to shoot dice in\u00a0The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.<\/i><\/li>\n
  • The poem features prominently in the plot of\u00a0Douglas Adams’s novel\u00a0Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency<\/i>. In the novel, the title character time travels to interrupt Coleridge’s work on his poem “Kubla Khan”; during his rambling dialogue, intended to disrupt Coleridge from unintentionally encoding information from a ghost which could lead to the destruction of the human race, Dirk Gently’s references to “Albert Ross”, another character from the novel, are misheard by Coleridge as “albatross,” which he says might have given him an idea for another poem he is working on, which he considers superior to a previous idea involving a meteor striking the Earth.<\/li>\n
  • Gene Wolfe’s science fiction novella,\u00a0The Fifth Head of Cerberus<\/i>, 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”.<\/li>\n
  • In\u00a0Mary Shelley’s\u00a0Frankenstein<\/i>, chapter 5,\u00a0Victor Frankenstein\u00a0quotes 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\u00a0Rime<\/i>, 1817 edition). In the book’s opening letters from Robert Walton to his sister, specifically Letter II, Walton explicitly mentions the poem by name and claims he “shall kill no albatross” on his journey.<\/li>\n
  • In\u00a0Clive Cussler’s novel\u00a0Iceberg<\/i>, several references are made to the poem and it is quoted several times. The villain’s company logo is the albatross. In another novel\u00a0The Silent Sea<\/i>, four lines from the poem are written on the page before the prologue.<\/li>\n
  • In\u00a0Garth Nix’s\u00a0Keys to the Kingdom<\/i>\u00a0series, the Mariner is an ancient and powerful being. He claims his real name is Captain Tom Shelvocke, and he mentions accidentally shooting an albatross.<\/li>\n
  • In\u00a0Lights Out<\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Peter Abrahams, the protagonist Eddie Nye has memorised 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.<\/li>\n
  • The poem is heavily referred to in the\u00a0Connie Willis\u00a0science fiction novel,\u00a0Passage<\/i>.<\/li>\n
  • The poem plays a crucial role in\u00a0W. W. Denslow’s 1904 children’s book,\u00a0The Pearl and the Pumpkin<\/i>.<\/li>\n
  • The author\u00a0Garry Kilworth, known for the\u00a0Welkin Weasels<\/i>\u00a0trilogy, was inspired by Coleridge for the entire trilogy. For example, when Sherriff Falshed is on the run from a\u00a0dragonfly\u00a0nymph, he quotes “A frightful fiend, did close behind him\u00a0swish<\/i>“, and also in the third book the entire scene with Death is re-enacted with a walrus and a nebulous shadow, when the weasels pass their ghostly vessel.<\/li>\n
  • In his poem “Snake”,\u00a0D. H. Lawrence\u00a0compares the albatross in\u00a0Ancient Mariner<\/i>\u00a0to the poem’s subject, a snake.<\/li>\n
  • Alan Moore\u00a0and\u00a0Dave Gibbons’s\u00a0Watchmen<\/i>\u00a0includes a\u00a0story within a story\u00a0“Tales of the Black Freighter”, which bears similarities to the poem through its\u00a0supernatural\u00a0themes and the tale of a mariner’s impending doom.<\/li>\n
  • Charles Baudelaire\u00a0(who also translated E. A. Poe into French) revisits the scene with the albatross (see D\u00fcrer’s illustration above), suggesting the poet is the albatross rather than the mariner. (“The Albatross”, 1857,\u00a0Flowers of Evil<\/i>).<\/li>\n
  • In\u00a0Michael Morpurgo’s novel\u00a0Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea<\/i>,\u00a0The Rime of the Ancient Mariner<\/i>\u00a0is featured heavily and key ideas from the poem are used in the novel.<\/li>\n
  • In\u00a0M. R. James’s short story,\u00a0Casting the Runes,<\/i>\u00a0a prior victim of Karswell received in the mail a (fictional) engraving of a man pursued by a demon, supposed to have been torn from a volume of Bewick’s engravings, with a quotation from the poem written upon it: “having once looked round \u2013 walks on, And turns no more his head, Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.”<\/li>\n
  • In\u00a0Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Footprints on the Sea-Shore”, published in\u00a0Twice-Told Tales<\/i>, the main character walks along the seashore and at one point he “encountered a bird,\u2014a large gray bird,\u2014but whether a loon, or a wild goose, or the identical albatross of the Ancient Mariner, was beyond my ornithology to decide.”<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Games<\/span><\/h4>\n
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    • The videogame,\u00a0Alpha Protocol<\/i>, features a character known as Albatross. One of the dossier packages players can unlock for him states that he takes his name from the poem, which alludes to the vengeance he unleashes if hurt.<\/li>\n
    • In the online computer game\u00a0Guild Wars<\/i>, the opening lines of NPC\u00a0Samti Kohlreg’s\u00a0dialogue and the name of his quest reference the poem and the author.[1]<\/sup>\u00a0In its sequel,\u00a0Guild Wars 2<\/i>, the name of the item\u00a0Rime-Rimmed Mariner’s Rebreather\u00a0is a reference to the poem.<\/li>\n
    • The Ancient Mariner appears as a rare miniature in the game\u00a0Horrorclix’<\/i>\u00a02008 Nightmares set, carrying the soul of a dead sailor and a piece of the Albatross.<\/li>\n
    • In the collectible card game\u00a0Magic: The Gathering<\/i>, the\u00a0flavor texts\u00a0of the cards Scathe Zombies, Wall of Ice and Will-o’-the-Wisp (all from the\u00a0Limited Edition Alpha<\/i>\u00a0set) are quotes from the poem.[2]<\/sup>[3]<\/sup>[4]<\/sup><\/li>\n
    • In the\u00a0Soulcalibur<\/i>\u00a0series of video games, the pirate\u00a0Cervantes de Leon\u00a0has a throw move named “Curse of the Ancient Mariner” (called “Rime of Ancient Mariner” in the Japanese version).\u00a0Shura, a Japanese\u00a0demon\u00a0slayer appearing in\u00a0Soulcalibur IV<\/i>, can also use the move, despite having no connection to mariners, the high seas or anything else mentioned in the poem\u00a0\u2013 this is because she shares a moveset with Cervantes.<\/li>\n
    • In the online computer game\u00a0Vanguard: Saga of Heroes<\/i>, in the city of Martok, there is an NPC (non-player character)\u00a0Orc\u00a0named Rolyat Leumas, the Ancient Seafarer of Martok. If the player questions him, he will tell the complete story of the\u00a0Rime of the Ancient Mariner<\/i>, with minor modifications to make it appropriate to the game world. The character’s name is “Samuel Taylor” spelled backwards.<\/li>\n
    • The online computer game,\u00a0World of Warcraft<\/i>\u00a0contains a quest named “Horn of the Ancient Mariner” as well as an obtainable weapon called the “Crossbow of the Albatross” and a cosmetic item called the “Rime of the Time-Lost Mariner”.<\/li>\n
    • Fallout: New Vegas<\/i>\u00a0DLC “Lonesome Road” is significantly inspired by\u00a0The Rime of the Ancient Mariner<\/i>\u00a0Part VI, stanza 11 which reads “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.”<\/li>\n
    • Some game maps in\u00a0Heroes of Might and Magic III<\/i>\u00a0contain floating bottles on the water, that give quotes from\u00a0The Rime of the Ancient Mariner<\/i>\u00a0when inspected by a player’s hero.<\/li>\n
    • In\u00a0BioShock Infinite<\/i>, the\u00a0vigor<\/i>\u00a0(potion) “Undertow” is advertised by the vigor dispenser machine with the words “Ancient mariner, disperse the hated albatross with the vigor Undertow”.<\/li>\n
    • In\u00a0Silent Hill: Downpour<\/i>, there is a television set in the train conductor’s living quarters. If the player changes the channel twice, an ominous voice can be heard reciting the lines “Alone, alone, all, all alone. Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on my soul in agony.”<\/li>\n
    • In\u00a0Dota 2<\/i>, the hero Kunkka the Admiral quotes lines from the poem.<\/li>\n
    • In\u00a0Stardew Valley<\/i>, there is a minor character called the ‘Old Mariner’ that appears on a beach during a storm. He offers a pendant that allows the player to marry another character.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Comics<\/span><\/h4>\n
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      • MAD Magazine<\/i>\u00a0#200 (July 1978)\u00a0published “The Rime of the Modern Skateboarder”, a full-length\u00a0burlesque\u00a0by\u00a0Tom Koch\u00a0and\u00a0Don Martin. A similar parody entitled “The Rime of the Modern Surfer” and previously been done by the same people.[5]<\/sup><\/li>\n
      • In\u00a0Marvel Comics’ Marvel Universe:\n
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        • Agent Pratt, a reoccurring nemesis of the character\u00a0Hulk, habitually quotes from\u00a0The Rime<\/i>, and debates with Banner about exactly what the albatross symbolises.<\/li>\n
        • Comic book author\u00a0Bill Everett\u00a0named his most famous character, the\u00a0Namor\u00a0the Sub-Mariner (an\u00a0antihero), in part from this poem.[6]<\/sup>\u00a0Namor, The Sub-Mariner<\/i>\u00a0number 44 (1993) is an adapted version of the poem.[7]<\/sup><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
        • Carl Barks’ final ten-pager for\u00a0Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories<\/i>\u00a0in No. 312 (Sept. 1966) is a tale titled “The Not-so-Ancient Mariner”. In it, the closing lines of the first part of Coleridge’s poem (“Why look’st thou so?’\u2014’With my crossbow\/I shot the Albatross.”) are quoted several times.<\/li>\n
        • The pirate Brook from the manga\u00a0One Piece<\/i>\u00a0has a similar background story to the rime.<\/li>\n
        • The cartoonist\u00a0Hunt Emerson\u00a0produced a\u00a0graphic novel,\u00a0Rime of the Ancient Mariner<\/i>, illustrating the poem, and featuring his usual quota of visual puns, gags and grotesque caricatures. The text, however, is essentially used verbatim.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          Music<\/span><\/h4>\n
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          • “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is a song by the English\u00a0heavy metal\u00a0band\u00a0Iron Maiden, from their fifth studio album,\u00a0Powerslave<\/i>\u00a0(1984). Written by the band’s bass player\u00a0Steve Harris, the song is based on Coleridge’s poem with many direct quotes from the text. The song is almost fourteen minutes long and like the poem, it contains several distinct sections with differing moods. It has remained a fan favourite for over 30 years.<\/li>\n
          • Finnish\u00a0symphonic metal\u00a0band\u00a0Nightwish\u00a0makes a reference to the poem in the song “The Islander”.<\/li>\n
          • Progressive rock band\u00a0Pink Floyd\u00a0alludes to Coleridge’s poem in the first verse of their song “Echoes”.<\/li>\n
          • Fleetwood Mac’s hit song “Albatross” drew its title from the poem, as the composer\u00a0Peter Green\u00a0read the poem when he was at school. The album\u00a0The Pious Bird of Good Omen<\/i>, which includes “Albatross”, has a cover that features a nun with an\u00a0albatross, alluding to the symbology among sailors and Coleridge’s poem.<\/li>\n
          • Malvina Reynolds’s song “The Albatross” is based on the poem and applies its moral to modern life.[8]<\/sup><\/li>\n
          • The album cover of Australian singer\u00a0Sarah Blasko’s album\u00a0What The Sea Wants, The Sea Will Have<\/i>\u00a0was inspired by an illustration of\u00a0The Rime of the Ancient Mariner<\/i>. 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”.<\/li>\n
          • The song “Good Morning Captain” from the album “Spiderland” by US\u00a0underground rock\u00a0band\u00a0Slint\u00a0is an adaptation of the poem.<\/li>\n
          • Shane MacGowan\u00a0of the Irish\u00a0folk rock\u00a0band\u00a0The Pogues\u00a0makes 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.<\/li>\n
          • The\u00a0Flogging Molly\u00a0song “Rebels of the Sacred Heart” has the line “the albatross hangin’ round your neck is the cross you bear for your sins.”<\/li>\n
          • The band\u00a0Corrosion of Conformity\u00a0has a song called “Albatross”, in which the lyricist warns the\u00a0albatross\u00a0away. The lyricist also states, “I believe the albatross is me”.<\/li>\n
          • David Bedford\u00a0recorded a concept album\u00a0The Rime of the Ancient Mariner<\/i>\u00a0in 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.<\/li>\n
          • The music video for the song “Living Hell” by the\u00a0Tiger Lillies\u00a0draws heavily on the poem, recreating themes such as the killing of the\u00a0albatross. They later made a whole album named after the poem.<\/li>\n
          • The song “Albatross” by\u00a0Wild Beasts\u00a0re-tells the story of the poem.<\/li>\n
          • The song “Peep-Hole” by\u00a0Guided by Voices, featured on their album\u00a0Bee Thousand, contains the lyrics, “Give me the cost of the albatross \/ And wear it around your neck for size,” in reference to the poem.<\/li>\n
          • The lyrics to the song “(In The Wake Of) The Swollen Goat” by the band\u00a0Clutch\u00a0mentions having an “Albatross on your neck” in reference to the poem.<\/li>\n
          • American punk band\u00a0Alesana’s song “Heavy Hangs the Albatross” is named in reference to the poem.<\/li>\n
          • Hard rock band\u00a0Chevelle’s\u00a0song “Face to the Floor” contains a reference to an albatross as a great weight dragging one downwards, much like that in the poem.<\/li>\n
          • The\u00a0Big Wreck\u00a0song “Albatross” alludes to the poem, particularly via the lyric “I’ll wear the albatross for one more day”.<\/li>\n
          • “Bear’s Vision of St. Agnes” by American indie band\u00a0mewithoutYou\u00a0includes the lyrics “you’ve worn me like an albatross \/ I’ve only slowed you down”.<\/li>\n
          • The British band\u00a0Bastille\u00a0make direct use of the “albatross around your neck” in their hidden track “The Weight of Living Part I” on their debut full-length album\u00a0Bad Blood<\/i>. Includes references to the shooting of the Albatross, and the sun used in the latter part of Coleridge’s poem.<\/li>\n
          • The\u00a0Sons of Texas\u00a0song “Morals of the Helpless Kind” mentions having an “Albatross on your neck” in reference to the poem.<\/li>\n
          • The\u00a0Swing Out Sister\u00a0single video for “Forever Blue” sees band member Andy Connell reading from the book. Imagery from the book and the subtext is also featured heavily in the video.<\/li>\n
          • The band\u00a0Foxing\u00a0named their first album\u00a0Albatross<\/i>, and the song “Bloodhound” makes reference to “An ALbatross hanging from my neck”<\/li>\n
          • The American rock band\u00a0Weezer’s song “Wind in our Sails” opens with the lines “A boy and a girl\/Albatross around their necks.”<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

            Film<\/span><\/h4>\n
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            • In the 1951 film\u00a0Pandora and the Flying Dutchman<\/i>, the story draws as much from the\u00a0Ancient Mariner<\/i>\u00a0as it does from the Flying Dutchman legend. The main character, believing his wife unfaithful, kills her and is sentenced to death. At his trial, he blasphemes by proclaiming Heaven a lie and asking that if he be mistaken, that Heaven do what it pleases with his soul. Instead of being executed, the man is condemned to sail the oceans of the world for eternity and becomes literally unable to die, until he can find a woman who loves him enough to die for him. Every seven years, he may search for her on land for six months. The ship’s crew consists entirely of ghosts, and a bloody white bird resembling an albatross flies overhead.<\/li>\n
            • A 1952\u00a0Looney Tunes<\/i>\u00a0short is titled “Water, Water Every Hare”.<\/li>\n
            • In the film\u00a0Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World<\/i>\u00a0an attempt is made to shoot an albatross which leads to negative results.<\/li>\n
            • In\u00a0The Men Who Stare at Goats<\/i>, Clooney’s character asks McGregor’s character if he ever heard the poem about the sailor who had to wear the dead seagull around his neck. He is referencing\u00a0The Rime of the Ancient Mariner<\/i>.<\/li>\n
            • In the 1999 film\u00a0Noah’s Ark<\/i>, a group of sceptics mock Noah’s warnings of the flood, while the land suffers drought, with a chorus of “Water, Water, everywhere, but not a drop to drink.”<\/li>\n
            • In the 1985 film\u00a0Out of Africa<\/i>\u00a0Denys Finch-Hatton quotes from the\u00a0Rime of the Ancient Mariner<\/i>\u00a0as he washes Karen’s hair. She says “you’re skipping verses” and he replies “Well, I leave out the dull parts”.<\/li>\n
            • The poem is extensively featured in the film\u00a0Pandaemonium<\/i>, which is based on the early lives of Coleridge,\u00a0Dorothy Wordsworth\u00a0and\u00a0William Wordsworth.<\/li>\n
            • The\u00a0Pirates of the Caribbean<\/i>\u00a0films contain many parallels to the epic poem, including life and death playing dice for the souls of men (the game\u00a0Liar’s Dice), Calypso (as\u00a0Tia Dalma’s true form), smelly slimy creatures (Davy Jones’ crew), the “frost and the cold”, and even “water, water, everywhere and not a drop to drink” when the characters are at sea and out of drinking water.<\/li>\n
            • In the 1996\u00a0Ridley Scott\u00a0film\u00a0White Squall<\/i>, the Ocean Academy’s ship is christened the\u00a0Albatross<\/i>; the ship’s captain Christopher Sheldon makes mention of the albatross being a very good omen which “embodied the spirits of lost sailors.” “Only bad luck if you kill one,” he added.<\/li>\n
            • Ra\u00fal daSilva\u00a0produced and directed a critically acclaimed six-time international prizewinning visualisation of the epic poem, titled\u00a0Rime of the Ancient Mariner<\/i>\u00a0(1975) using the work of illustrators of the past two centuries who attempted to bring life to the epic. Sir Michael Redgrave, who once taught the poem as a schoolmaster, narrates it. The film also includes a biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and how he came to write the poem.<\/li>\n
            • Ken Russell\u00a0directed a film about Coleridge, called\u00a0The Rime of the Ancient Mariner<\/i>, in 1978 for British\u00a0Granada Television.<\/li>\n
            • The original\u00a0Sherlock Holmes<\/i>\u00a0film series (starring\u00a0Basil Rathbone\u00a0as Holmes and\u00a0Nigel Bruce\u00a0as Doctor Watson) contained a film titled\u00a0The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes<\/i>, released in 1939, in which Holmes’ nemesis,\u00a0Professor Moriarty\u00a0(played by\u00a0George Zucco), creates a series of murder threats to draw Holmes’ attention away from his real plan. These diversionary plots all revolve around a series of drawings which depict a man with an albatross around his neck. Throughout the film, Holmes makes references to lines from Coleridge’s work.<\/li>\n
            • In\u00a0Richard O’Brien’s\u00a0Shock Treatment<\/i>, the character Betty Hapschatt recites the entire poem to Judge Oliver Wright who, along with an entire theatre 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.<\/li>\n
            • Larry Jordan\u00a0directed a short film that features animations of\u00a0Gustave Dore’s engravings and\u00a0Orson Welles\u00a0as the narrator of the poem, along with sound effects (the albatross, the sea, etc.).<\/li>\n
            • In 1998,\u00a0BBC\u00a0produced\u00a0The Rime of the Ancient Mariner<\/i>\u00a0as a 57-minute made-for-TV movie with\u00a0Films for Humanities and the Sciences (FHS)\u00a0that features\u00a0Paul McGann\u00a0as both Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Ancient Mariner. The film was directed by Juliet May and produced by Anne Brogan.<\/li>\n
            • In\u00a0Serenity<\/i>, The Operative refers to River Tam as an albatross, causing Malcolm Reynolds to reply: “Way I remember it, albatross was a ship’s good luck, ’til some idiot killed it.” he then assures Inara: “Yes, I’ve read a poem. Try not to faint.”<\/li>\n
            • In the 1983 film\u00a0Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone<\/i>, Wolff (Peter Strauss) quotes the “Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink” line while walking across a dried up lakebed, explaining to Nikki (Molly Ringwald) that it’s from “the first poem you learn in Highschool”<\/li>\n
            • In the 1971 film\u00a0Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory<\/i>, as the group is entering the room where Wonka is developing “fizzy-lifting drinks” Wonka says, “Bubbles, bubbles, every where, but not a drop to drink.”<\/li>\n
            • In the 1986\u00a0B movie\u00a0Never Too Young to Die<\/i>, Velvet Von Ragner (Gene Simmons) gloats “Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink” as he explains his plan to poison the city’s water supply.<\/li>\n
            • In the 1980 movie\u00a0The Fog<\/i>, the reference “like an albatross around the neck” can be heard on the cassette recorder in the lighthouse where Stevie Wayne (Adrienne Barbeau) works. Just before that a wooden piece with the word “Dane” explodes when the quote “6 Must Die” appears magically written in it. Also, a small fishing vessel comes across a large hulking vessel in the fog (in reality, a 19th-century clipper ship) which is carrying the ghosts of mariners who died 100 years earlier.<\/li>\n
            • In the film adaptation of\u00a0Hunter S. Thompson’s novel\u00a0The Rum Diary<\/i>, Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp) is found reading and contemplating the poem.<\/li>\n
            • In the 2012 film\u00a0Ice Age 4<\/i>, Sid the sloth bemoans the lack of drinking water whilst adrift on the ocean with “Water, water, everywhere, and not a drop to drink!”<\/li>\n
            • In the film\u00a0Against the Sun<\/i>, one of the sailors, Aldrich, shoots an albatross that lands on the crew’s emergency life raft in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, prompting the character of Chief Dixon to remark “I can’t believe you actually shot an albatross.”<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

              Television<\/span><\/h4>\n
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              • In the “Super Trivia” episode of\u00a0Aqua Teen Hunger Force<\/i>,\u00a0Master Shake\u00a0says to both\u00a0Meatwad\u00a0and\u00a0Frylock\u00a0that they’re “albacores around my neck” like “the Rime of the Marinade.” which Frylock corrects by replying “that’s Albatross!”<\/li>\n
              • In\u00a0The Ice Dream<\/i>, an irreverent Australian talk show covering the\u00a02002 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.<\/li>\n
              • A portion of the poem was recited by\u00a0Wonder Woman\u00a0as the body of the\u00a0Viking Prince\u00a0and his\u00a0longship\u00a0were sent into the\u00a0Sun, during the\u00a0Justice League Unlimited<\/i>\u00a0episode: “To Another Shore”, at the same time that the\u00a0Martian Manhunter\u00a0leaves the Watchtower.<\/li>\n
              • In episode 90 of\u00a0Pok\u00e9mon<\/i>, “Stage Fight”, a trainer aboard a ship recites the opening stanza of the ballad to her\u00a0Raichu.<\/li>\n
              • In the third to last episode of the Australian television series\u00a0SeaChange<\/i>, Max compares the failure of his relationship with Laura to the Mariner shooting down the Albatross. This episode is entitled “Love in the Time of Coleridge”.<\/li>\n
              • In the episode of the\u00a0Simpsons<\/i>\u00a0entitled “Boy Scoutz ‘N the Hood”, Homer incorrectly recalls the verse “Water, water, everywhere, so let’s all have a drink” as rationale for drinking seawater while stranded at sea.<\/li>\n
              • In episode XLV of\u00a0Samurai Jack<\/i>, “The Scotsman Saves Jack,” the characters encounter a sailor who tries to recite for them his harrowing tale. The Scotsman is uninterested, but is convinced to at least hear the name of his story, which is revealed to be “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”<\/li>\n
              • Monty Python\u00a0performed a sketch (Series 1, Episode 13, Albatross) which figured John Cleese as a cinema usherette with a tray hung around her neck containing an albatross instead of the more normal choc ices.<\/li>\n
              • In the\u00a0Firefly<\/i>\u00a0episode “Objects in Space”, the character\u00a0River Tam\u00a0(Summer Glau) was nicknamed “Albatross” and in\u00a0Serenity<\/i>\u00a0was subsequently referred to as an albatross by the\u00a0Operative.<\/li>\n
              • At the end of the\u00a0SeaQuest DSV<\/i>\u00a0episode “Hide and Seek”,\u00a0Roy Scheider\u00a0can be heard reciting one of the last stanzas of this poem over the closing scene.<\/li>\n
              • In the episode of\u00a0Only Fools and Horses<\/i>, “Sleeping Dogs Lie” Rodney remarks regarding his Uncle Albert “I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: that man’s a right Jonah. I reckon that when he boarded his last ship, the crew shot an albatross for luck.”<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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                Coleridge’s poem\u00a0the\u00a0Rime of the Ancient Mariner has been frequently associated and used in the context of popular cultural media throughout the ages. Some of the following poem mentions may be surprising, or perhaps not. Let us know if we have missed any mentions! Literature: In\u00a0Edward Albee’s play\u00a0Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Martha, in revealing to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":147,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-155","page","type-page","status-publish","czr-hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/eng2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/eng2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/eng2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/eng2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/eng2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/eng2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/155\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/eng2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/eng2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}