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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.
The albatross metaphor is derived from this poem; someone bearing a burden or facing an obstacle is said to have "an albatross around his neck", the punishment given to the mariner who killed the albatross.
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.,
L'Albatros (French for The Albatross) is a poem by decadent French poet Charles Baudelaire. [ 1 ] The poem, inspired by an incident on Baudelaire's trip to Bourbon Island in 1841, was begun in 1842 but not completed until 1859 with the addition of the final verse.
Albatross (metaphor) Gibson Plumage Index; List of albatross breeding locations; New South Wales Albatross Study Group; C. Chatham albatross; G. Gibson's albatross; W.
The albatross metaphor was also used to describe the title in 2014 by James Caldwell of Pro Wrestling Torch, [44] while Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer said that year that "the [Intercontinental] title isn't booked to mean much."
"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 ...
A statue of the Ancient Mariner with the albatross hung from his neck at Watchet Harbour, Somerset, England, unveiled in September 2003 as a tribute to Coleridge. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge that was first published in 1798, has been referenced in various works of popular culture.