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    <body><![CDATA[I know 'serious' students of poetry will mock this, but I really think this is a superlative poem and will even say that I believe Coleridge to be a superior poet to Wordsworth. The ballad meter is delightful, and how can one not be won over by things like: &quot;I fear thee, ancient mariner/ I fear...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38772861">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've loved this poem since college.  I re-read it again today and it still amazes me.  Perhaps in a different light now.  So many of the lines just stick with you and as apt as they are for the poem, can be interpreted to apply to so many facets of life.<br/>- &quot;Water, Water Everywhere / And al...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17310324">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The rime of ancient mariner is literally a masterpiece. It’s a very famous Romantic ballad (it can be considered as Pastoral as well) written by Coleridge, and it's believed it contributed a lot to the English literature. The plot of this ballad goes as the following; an ancient mariner stops a ma...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72905238">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When good fortune shows its kindly face and is spurned life becomes a darkened curse.  Only through recognition of what one has done and a shift in being can the cursed life become redeemed.  Wonderful poem. The part that fascinated me the most was that the Ancient Mariner was talking to someone on ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76185416">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this poem in my late British Lit class.  I love the metaphor of the albatross as Christ, which the mariner kills with a &quot;cross&quot;bow.  Brilliant.  Also, the saying &quot;Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink&quot; comes from this poem.  One of the most interesting things ab...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74425841">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think I read this back in highschool, but it was good to read it again paired with Doré's spectacular illustrations; I think they added a lot to the experience. This poem tells the story--as grisly as it is beautiful--of a man's adventures on the high seas, and his journey from hatred to love. Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54718673">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Strange, yet compelling, I looked it up because I've come across many references to this poem in the type of stuff I read.<br/>...<br/>I'm not going to star this one, because I think you have to read it keeping in mind the time that it was written (early 1800's), and not everyone will 'get' it.  B...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47736671">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just love the title poem, but I was thrilled when, after bringing the book home, that many of my other favorite Coleridge poems also were included in this edition.<br/><br/>This book includes The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Frost at Midnight, This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison Dejection...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28803649">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I mostly abhor poetry, but here Coleridge earned a great rhythm that comes across even to the modern American tongue, and uses his patterns to put things in great ways. “Water, water, everywhere” is rightfully a famous passage, the use of both repetition and enunciation patterns lends the poem a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21937489">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So who is Albert Ross and what links the Flying Dutchman from the Pirates of the Caribbean, Master and Commander, the heavy metal band Iron Maiden and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein? Answer a bird and the narrative ballad, 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner'! Perhaps there is no other poem that has so fully ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47693052">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Water, water, every where,<br/>And all the boards did shrink ;<br/>Water, water, every where,<br/>Nor any drop to drink&quot;<br/><br/>I loved this poem. It is one of those poems that just begs to be read aloud. It is impossible not to get caught up in the Ancient Mariner's story while re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56149087">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[“Fantastical style – contains evil spells, bad omens, ghosts, etc.   The main character kills a bird of good fortune; his crew is cast under an evil spell as a result, and terrible things begin happening to him…  There was no apparent purpose to the poem.  I do not like this type of literature...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74378833">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The discussions that were provoked in class because of Mariner's underlying themes were decently interesting. That being said, I do not like epic poetry. To be quite honest, I'm not really sure why we have focused so heavily on epic poetry this entire year? I understand that knowing the socially imp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54201014">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>Really, how the hell hadn't I read 'The Ancient Mariner?  Actually, I read the 1917 edition I inherited from my great grandfather. 'Kubla Kahn' [sic:] might have been my favorite despite my nautical affinity to water.  Hi ho.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh my this is one of the greatest classics ever written.<br/>The way it flows from the 1st line to the last it is amazing.<br/>Theres not enough I can put down to make you want to read it more.<br/>Just go get it now!!!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great story and wonderfully written. I love this story mostly because it proves that Heavy Metal can be educational. I was introduced to this story by a song from Iron Maiden of the same name. the song is 15min long and is a perfect summary of the tale. there are a few times where they quo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54576917">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this book more than I should.  I became interested in reading this after I re-read an old issue of Namor: the submariner in which they retold this story in a very weird way.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[who could forget 'Water, Water Everywhere / And all the boards did shrink / Water, Water Everywhere / Nor any Drop To Drink'. <br/>Primary lesson to be learned: don't kill any albatrosses.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem is beautifully illustrated by Gustave Dore... or rather his engraved plates are reproduced for this edition of the book.  It is a large book with the most amazing and breath taking art.  Then, the poem itself adds to the beauty.  I know it was meant to be the other way...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6072479">more...</a>]]></body>
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