ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -What does ‘Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink’ mean? This is from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and is used to suggest that despite being surrounded by something, you cannot benefit from it. Here we could reference it with sea water, as 97% of earth’s water is ocean.

Detailed explanation-2: -Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote those words to describe the predicament of the ill-fated hero of his poem who was stuck on a ship in the middle of a becalmed ocean.

Detailed explanation-3: -Answer and Explanation: This stanza from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner refers to the terrible circumstances faced by the mariner and his crew. With the ocean becalmed, they have no way of reaching a port and renewing their dwindling stock of water.

Detailed explanation-4: -This is from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and is used to suggest that despite being surrounded by something, you cannot benefit from it.