Multiple choice general knowledge

Name the poem in which an " Albatross" is killed by the Navigator. Later in the poem the dead "Albatross" is hung around the Navigator's neck.

  1. The Solitary Reaper

  2. The Seven Ages

  3. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

  4. The frog and the nighthingale
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C Correct answer
Explanation

C is correct. The albatross is a central symbol in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' - after the mariner kills the seabird, his crew forces him to wear the dead carcass around his neck as a burden of guilt. A is a Wordsworth poem about a Highland girl's song, B is Shakespeare's monologue on life's stages, and D is a Vikram Seth satire (also in this batch).

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