In the 1940 film The Sea Hawk starring Errol Flynn, Albatross is the name of Captain Thorpe's pirate ship.In the 1939 film The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, Professor Moriarty ( George Zucco) baits Holmes by mailing him a drawing of a man with an albatross hung around his neck.See The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in popular culture. Lawrence mentions the albatross in Ancient Mariner. In his poem Snake, published in Birds, Beasts and Flowers, D. Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, alludes to Coleridge's albatross In the final stanza, he goes on to compare the poets to the birds - exiled from the skies and then weighed down by their giant wings, till death. Frankenstein was first published in 1818, long before the term was introduced into the Oxford Dictionary.Ĭharles Baudelaire's collection of poems Les Fleurs du mal contains a poem entitled " L'Albatros" (1857) about men on ships who catch the albatrosses for sport. In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Robert Walton mentions the poem by name and says of an upcoming journey that "I shall kill no albatross", clearly an allusion to the poem by Shelley's close acquaintance, Coleridge. This sense is catalogued in the Oxford English Dictionary from 1883, but it seems only to have entered general usage in the 1960s. From this arose the image of an albatross around the neck as metaphor for a burden that is difficult to escape. Unable to speak due to lack of water, the ship's crew let the mariner know through their glances that they blame him for their plight and they tie the bird around his neck as a sign of his guilt. However, the titular mariner shoots the albatross with a crossbow, an act that will curse the ship and cause it to suffer terrible mishaps. In the poem, an albatross follows a ship setting out to sea, which is considered a sign of good luck.
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