![]() Then a look of horror distorts the Mariner's face as he confesses that he shot the albatross with his crossbow. He describes how an albatross appeared accompanied by good wind which helped free the ship. The Mariner tells the man a strange tale of a disastrous voyage years ago when his ship became ice-bound in Antarctic waters. It begins with an old sailor stopping a man walking to a wedding. ![]() The poem is written in the style of old English ballads using archaic language. The author was not publicly identified until 1817 when The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was included in Sibylline Leaves, a collection of Coleridge's poems. It was first published anonymously in September 1798 as The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere in Lyrical Ballads. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a famous narrative poem in seven parts by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. "With my cross-bow / I shot the albatross." Illustration for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Gustave Doré (1832 – 1883). ![]()
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