The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Just in time for Christmas, some poetry! There is a version of this read by Sir Ian McKellan on YouTube if you would prefer to listen, rather than read this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1raSUYAr0s0

Here’s the summary from Amazon:
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is one of the best-known and best-loved poems in the English language. It is the longest major poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and was written in 1797-98 and revised in 1817. The mariner stops a man who is on the way to a wedding ceremony and begins to narrate a story. The wedding-guest's reaction turns from bemusement to impatience to fear to fascination as Coleridge uses narrative techniques such as personification and repetition to create a sense of danger, the supernatural, or serenity, depending on the mood in different parts of the poem.

The meeting will start at 7pm and finish between 9.00 and 10pm (BST), with breaks in between. This one will be online only due to the difficulty in booking venues in the run up to Christmas! I will post the Zoom link on this page about 10 minutes before the meeting is due to start.