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I met a man who wasn't there! He wasn't there again today, I wish, I wish he'd go away! When I came home last night at three, The man was waiting there for me But when I looked around the hall, I couldn't see him there at all! Go away, go away, don't you come back any more! Go away, go away, and please don't slam the door... Last night I saw ...
John Masefield's poem "The Sailing of Hell Race", in his Midsummer Night and Other Tales in Verse (1928), tells a story based on Preiddeu Annwfn, though Arthur's ship is here called Britain. Alan Lupack surmises that this is a play on the names Prydwen and Prydain , the Welsh name for Britain.
The invisible ships (or ships not seen) myth claims that when European explorers' ships approached either North America, South America, or Australia, the appearance of their large ships was so foreign to the native people that they could not even see the vessels in front of them.
The mariner's tale begins with his ship departing on its journey. Despite initial good fortune, the ship is driven south by a storm and eventually reaches the icy waters of the Antarctic . An albatross appears and leads the ship out of the ice jam where it is stuck, but even as the albatross is fed and praised by the ship's crew, the mariner ...
The song is a satirical and surrealistic story that jumbles together historical and literary and narrative references from the voyages of Columbus to the Mayflower to Moby Dick to the present day. The narrator calls his ship's captain "Captain Arab", referring to Captain Ahab from Moby-Dick [2] several times during the telling of the tale.
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Longfellow had seen it earlier on a scrap of newspaper. [4] Longfellow explained the repeated title as from the Latin, Scopus meus excelsior est ("my goal is higher"). [ 2 ] Biographer Charles Calhoun suggested the Alpine setting was an autobiographical reference to the poet's then-unsuccessful wooing of Frances Appleton, daughter of ...
The Master Mariner is the author’s final work, unfinished at the time of his death, but published in its incomplete form. It is a two-volume historical novel. Based on the legend of the Wandering Jew, it tells the story of Matthew Lawe, an Elizabethan English seaman who, as punishment for an act of cowardice, is doomed to sail the world's seas until the end of time.