The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

At school, we did the Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. I did not like this poem. The wedding guest's boredom was successfully passed on to me.

This poem has contributed to culture. It is the source of water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink. It is where the idea of a burden being an albatross round someone's neck comes from.

If only we'd had some of this gin during class, the poem wouldn't have been half as bad.