ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Just like the famous line, ‘water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink’, in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem, ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, water is around us but is often not clean or safe enough to drink.

Detailed explanation-2: -Lines from “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, ” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The speaker, a sailor on a becalmed ship, is surrounded by salt water that he cannot drink.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -This poem suggests that if everyone could think simple, positive and grateful thoughts, the world’s problems might lessen through a lens of beauty rather than ugliness.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.