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In one poem, this type of animal is teased with a pipestem, and is described as “once so beautiful” but now “so funny and ugly.” (20[1])In that poem, this type of animal is “exiled” among (20[1])“hoots and jeers” but formerly “laugh[ed] at the archer.” This “prince of cloud (20[1])and sky” (20[2])is (20[1])compared (20[1])to a poet whose “giant wings keep him (20[1])from walking” (20[4])in a Charles (20[2])Baudelaire (20[1])poem. (20[5])This type of animal (20[1])“sank (20[1])like (20[1])lead” (20[3])after (20[1])the narrator blesses (*) water-snakes in (10[1])a tale told to a Wedding-Guest. (10[3])Men (10[2])find “slimy things…upon the shiny sea” and “water, water, every where, nor any drop to drink” after a sailor (10[1])brings bad luck by shooting this animal. For 10 points, what type of bird is hung around the narrator’s neck in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner? ■END■ (10[1])

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