Today I made good on a promise to treat you to breakfast if we could reach our fundraising goal for the Three Cups O' Tea collection. Together as a class, we raised $82! I realize that times are hard right now and I appreciate your teenage generosity. It says an awful lot about your character.
With a bit of joe on our bellies, we read The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Coleridge. Before reading we listened to Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven. I suggested that some of the same imagery can be found in the poem. If this was something that you found interesting, try listening to Iron Maiden's song, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. It has a bit of a more obvious connection. Robert Plant, like Coleridge conceived the story for the song in a series of dreams. Both the song and the poem share the magical combination of thought and imagination.
At the end of class, we looked very briefly at messages in songs that are hidden, but revealed by spinning the records backwards. Ah....good ol' fashion records. How do you think you could hide a message in a poem? Did this ever happen in classical poetry?
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