There’s the adage “an albatross around your neck,” meaning an inescapable hardship. The term can be traced to the 1798 Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ...

to a wedding-feast, and detaineth one. It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. `By thy long beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stopp'st thou me? The Bridegroom's doors are ...

Some Swifties have even wondered if she is making a direct reference to the albatross in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by the 19th century tortured poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...

Beneath the Sea It Sings presents the story in an original fashion, having your sole character relay the narrative as if she ...

Had I from old and young! Instead of the cross, the albatross About my neck was hung. —Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” I commend to your attention the recent ...