2006-07-12 06:03:57 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
It's "The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
2006-07-12 06:05:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 3⤋
It's from a poem called "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner". In the poem, a sailor kills an albatross (a bird considered luck by sailors) and curses his ship. At one point, they are stuck in the ocean with no wind, and no rain. It is hot, and miserable and they are thirsty, but there is nothing to drink. The line notes the irony in the fact that they are surrounded by water, but dying of thirst because the water is undrinkable.
The whole line is-
"Water, water everywhere, and how the boards did shrink. Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink."
2006-07-12 06:23:14 · answer #2 · answered by SugarPumpkin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sea water. Ocean Water
2006-07-12 06:06:52 · answer #3 · answered by mistresskaida 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In "The Rhime of the Ancient Mariner" (how it was originally written and spelled), the captain of an old sailing vessel is becalmed (stuck adrift, no wind in the sails) and is dying of thrist. The irony is that all he can see is water, but none of it is fit to drink due to the salt in it. Drinking seawater actually dehydrates you because there is enough salt in it to pull water FROM your deigestive tract's cells!
Hence, "Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink."
2006-07-12 06:07:58 · answer #4 · answered by But why is the rum always gone? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's definitely from the "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1798. It refers to the frustration at being in the middle of the ocean (i.e surrounded by water) but not having anything to drink as all the water is obviously brine and undrinkable.
2006-07-12 06:20:15 · answer #5 · answered by Dazza 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sea water
2006-07-12 06:04:36 · answer #6 · answered by Gareth T 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was commenting on being out in the middle of the ocean, where there was salt water all around him, but none that was fit to drink.
2006-07-12 06:06:31 · answer #7 · answered by postalmaria 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's about being adrift in a boat in the ocean. Drinking sea water not only dehydrates you, but it causes insanity.
2006-07-12 06:08:02 · answer #8 · answered by gemthewitch 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ocean water. Its too salty to drink large quantities of. If you are dying of thirst, the salt content will dry you out more.
2006-07-12 06:06:16 · answer #9 · answered by Blunt Honesty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's from a book by Ernest Hemingway called "The Old Man and the Sea"
2006-07-12 06:07:08 · answer #10 · answered by Jonas_83 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-14 07:14:01 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋