...fact that the ship was sailing amidst water, it was undrinkable saltwater and the sailors were dying. "Water, water every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere Nor any drop to drink." "My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless...

...as the mythical poems reveal, Coleridge's imagination provided him with little relief. All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up...Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink. — From "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" JOHN KEATS (1795-1821) Recommended edit ion .'John Keats:...

...down, Twas sad as sad could be; And we did speak only to break The silence of the sea! All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up...a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Water, water, everywhere, 120 And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. The...

...strain. 5. From Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (1 798 )' All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up...bigger than the Moon. Day after day; day after day, 5 We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Water, water, every...

...immediately after the mariner has shot the albatross, the seventh of fourteen stanzas reads: All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. (50) Perhaps, thus, Christ offers his intense judgment of the guilty mariner. Seven stanzas later,...

...mariner and his shipmates as the world of ice and snow is replaced by that of searing heat: All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. This realistic and vividly visual image is also symbolic, as the sun is representative of God, but...

...crew observing, but for the most part powerless, to influence the course on which they are heading, Day after day, day after day. We stuck, nor breath nor motion-, As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean But in an instant; And now the storm-blast came, and he Was tyrannous and strong: He...

...started going wrong. The disasters included the ship becoming becalmed in the tropics where there was: Water, water, every where, And all the boards did...Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink. Coleridge's poem is based, in part, on the old sailor's legend that seeing an albatross means fog or...

...motionless as a model ship . . . polished marble: cf. 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', 11. 115-18: 'Day after day, day after day, | We stuck, nor breath nor motion; | As idle as a painted ship | Upon a painted ocean.' 64 The watch finished washing decks: that is, the man on watch. 65 an extraordinary...

...white foam flew, The furrow followed free; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion: As idle as a painted ship, Upon a painted ocean. It was my turn to read. I'd brought excerpts from English diaries in which Cook's...