Selected verses from THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER

[ashling]

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

1. I've known people like the Ancient Mariner

people who corner you at parties and want to tell you their (endless) life story. Yikes, it's hard to get away from people like that. Yo, Ancient Mariner, I gotta hit the head, then I'm going to get another cold one. You need anything? (as if I intend to return to this tale).

:hi:

[Bitwit1234]

2. It starts

There was an Ancient Mariner
And he stoppeth one of three
By thy long grey bear and glittering eye
Wherefore stoppeth thou me

We had a teacher in the seventh grade who love to make us memorize these poems. I'm 77 and I do remember this and the part about the water.

[ashling]

3. When we were kids,

my dad used to read poetry to my brother and me out of A TREASURY OF THE FAMILIAR sitting in the middle of the bed in my parents room. He would read from Oliver Wendell Holmes (my grandmother was a Holmes), Robert Service, Frost, et al. But he would always read from "The Rime ..."

On a thread the other day someone suggested that this whole BP Oil Fiasco should be hung around the necks of the Republicans. This just naturally came to mind.




. . . round my neck
they hung the albatross

....

. . . And a thousand, thousand slimy things
lived on, and so did I.

[lumberjack_jeff]

8. Huh. I always read Seuss. n/t

[ashling]

9. Seuss

for lighter reading

[Clio the Leo]

4. Lovely.

(The metaphor of course ... not the situation.)

[ashling]

5. Thank you.

I am glad someone got the metaphor ... I was beginning to wonder (LOL) I guess I should have smeared some more oil on him. :shrug:

[Clio the Leo]

6. Oh I LOVE a good metaphor. ;-) NT

[ashling]

7. Me too