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The band Foals have a song titled "Albatross". Using the metaphor "You've got an albatross around your neck" The band Foxing has an album called "The Albatross". And reference the word albatross on the songs "Bloodhound", and "Tom Bley". Gorillaz refers to the albatross in the song "Hip Albatross", as a metaphor for the burden of the undead.
This maneuver allows the bird to cover almost 1,000 km/d (620 mi/d) without flapping its wings. Slope soaring uses the rising air on the windward side of large waves. Albatross have high glide ratios, around 22:1 to 23:1, meaning that for every metre they drop, they can travel forward twenty-two metres. [7]
Albatross (metaphor), an encumbrance or a wearisome burden; Albatross (Rolling Thunder), a video game character; Albatross, Missouri; Grupo Albatros, a special ...
Albatross (metaphor) Gibson Plumage Index; List of albatross breeding locations; New South Wales Albatross Study Group; C. Chatham albatross; G. Gibson's albatross; W.
A list of metaphors in the English language organised alphabetically by type. A metaphor is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or some intangible quality or idea; e.g.,
Albatrosses have featured in poetry in the form of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous 1798 poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, which in turn gave rise to the usage of albatross as metaphor for a burden. [77] More generally, albatrosses were believed to be good omens, and to kill one would bring bad luck. [27]
In the lyrics of the song, Ekberg describes a woman whom she calls a mouse. The word albatraoz is made-up but refers to the albatross [6] and is also the name of a Swedish electronic group that AronChupa is a member of. The song's use of "mouse" is a play on words, [citation needed] as mus (the Swedish word for "mouse") is also a slang term for ...
"The Albatross about my Neck was Hung", etching by William Strang, published 1896. The sailors change their minds again and blame the mariner for the torment of their thirst. In anger, the crew forces the mariner to wear the dead albatross about his neck, perhaps to illustrate the burden he must suffer from killing it, or perhaps as a sign of ...