The BBC is celebrating their poetry season and is broadcasting some very interesting programmes, but we are not the BBC and at the end of the year it becomes difficult to change routines. Nevertheless, today 4th ESO A, B and C have been told about Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

If you want to read more, check the wikipedia, and if you’re interested in reading the text click here. If you want to know how it sounds, click here (there are seven parts).

The poem inspired Iron Maiden to make a song in the early 1980s. The text is here and the song can be listened to below.