"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
by Samuel Coleridge

Read the poem and think:
1. What is he saying?
2. What is Coleridge comparing?
3. How does this help you understand the situation better?
4. What message is he trying to get across?

Read it several times....Write your answers on your paper and be ready to explain.

Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.

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