Just like The Beatles' animation, The Ancient Mariner is a psychedelic sea voyage, a tale of the unexpected and a playground of sight, sound and uncertain mysticism.īut while the The Yellow Submarine revels in acid-steeped distraction, constantly losing the plot, Coleridge's poem is a masterpiece of narrative. It pushed all the same gleeful buttons in my fifteen-year-old brain. I first met this poem at exactly the time I discovered The Yellow Submarine. Introduced by a variety of writers, artists and other guests, the Scottish Poetry Library’s classic poem selections are a reminder of wonderful poems to rediscover.įrancis Bickmore on 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner': The steersman’s face by his lamp gleamed white Įach turned his face with a ghastly pang, With throats unslaked, with black lips baked,Īnd straight the sun was flecked with bars,Īlas! (thought I, and my heart beat loud)Īre those her sails that glance in the sun,
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