The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

................Farewell, farewell ! but this I tellTo thee, thou Wedding-Guest !He prayeth well, who loveth wellBoth man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth bestAll things both great and small ;For the dear God who loveth us,He made and loveth all.
The Mariner, whose eye is bright,Whose beard with age is hoar,Is gone : and now the Wedding-GuestTurned from the bridegroom's door.
He went like one that hath been stunned,And is of sense forlorn :A sadder and a wiser man,He rose the morrow morn.....

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's finest work......and his longest major poem by thisEnglish poet...
The poem written in 1797–1798 and published in 1798. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner relates the events experienced by a mariner on a long sea voyage. The Mariner stops a man who is on the way to a wedding ceremony, and begins to recite his story. The Wedding-Guest's reaction turns from bemusement to impatience and fear to fascination as the Mariner's story progresses, as can be seen in the language style: for example Coleridge uses narrative techniques such as personification and repetition to create either a sense of danger, of the supernatural or serenity, depending on the mood of each of the different parts of the poem

This particular poem has an influence on lots of movies and music pieces. See my incomplete list of Music below:

Music:
1. "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is a 13-minute heavy metal epic from the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden's 1984 album "Powerslave", based on Coleridge's poem with many direct quotes.
Some lines as follows:
Hear the rime of the ancient mariner
See his eye as he stops one of three
Mesmerises one of the wedding guests
Stay here and listen to the nightmares of the sea.

And the music plays on, as the bride passes by
Caught by his spell and the mariner tells his tale...

2. Finnish metal band Nightwish, gathered ideas for their song The Islander, from the poem. This is can be seen in the lines "The albatross is flying.." and "Light at the end of the world.."

3. The band Corrosion of Conformity has a song called "Albatross", in which the lyricist warns the albatross away. The lyricist also states, "I believe the albatross is me".