I chose the last stanza:
“Ah! well-a-day! What evil looks
Had i from old and young!
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung.”
I chose this stanza because it powerfully closes up part 3 of the poem; iyt does this by saying it’s the end of a day that was a long tiring day, and then, it explains how he feels he has done wrong to himself and his crew by vcursing them by killing the Albatross. It also is a strong close because it symbolises the end of Jesus’ first life by saying:
“instead of ythe cross, the Albatross
about my neck was hung”
Which is a metaphor to what hes done against what humans have done.
November 20, 2014 at 2:08 pm
Yonatan here. This is a great piece