The Ancient Mariner's Frost by Samuel Taylor ColeridgePart 1 an old man stops every third man walking down the street to a wedding, the man is a relative of the bride and groom the man tries to run away but the old man grabs the man with his thin hand the man is held there by the shine in the old man's eyes the man listens attentively "Like a child of three years" the old man has the man's attention the wedding the guest sat on a stone the sailor continued his story the boat was anchored near a church kirkKIRK EFTSOONS - without me the ship was sailing towards the south because the sun rose on the left side of the boat they got closer to the equator every day because the sun passed over MINSTRIL - musicians, the bride started walking on the island and the music plays, the old man continues, there was a storm at the equator, the storm took them to the south pole, the storm was very strong, they went through the mist and then it started snowing, it became very cold, they passed very large pieces of ice floating in the water (icebergs), there was only ice and snow and there were no animals, just ice, a Albatross flew over after a few days the men were happy to see it because they needed to hope that the men had fed it. the ice broke in front of the boat and then they sailed through the ice to safety a good south wind helped them sail north the bird followed them KEN - I know something NE' ER - never VESPERS - the bird stayed with them for nine days the ancient sailor shot the albatross with his crossbow HOLLOW - called albatross PART II sea burst - wake of the ship there was no more bird who followed the boat (felt it was lonely again) they ran out of food the people on the boat cursed the sailor for killing their lucky men the wind had stopped the head of God - the sun declared - swear, okay , they thought the bird brought the fog because the fog cleared after the bird died, the breeze stopped and the boat stopped, the sky was clear and it was very hot , they were at the equator because the sun at noon was above the mast they stayed there for a few days without wind it was as if they were a painting "Water, water everywhere" , they saw nothing