Whose statue? Which not so common idiom is a literal description of the statue?Answer: The statue is that of the ancient mariner from the famous Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem Rime of the Ancient Mariner. In the poem, bad luck follows the mariner who kills an albatross and the rest of the crew force the mariner to wear the dead bird around his neck. This gave rise to the idiom albatross around the neck meaning an unwelcome burden. Hari, nice try, Schmetterling, Raghu, Srivats, Swapnaa and Adi got it. Well done.
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Ancient Mariner; Albatross around one's neck
ancient mariner
albatross hung around the neck
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung.
Somerset, England
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
idiom: albatross around the neck
The ancient mariner, a tribute to coleridge, albatross about my neck was hung
An albatross around his neck (from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner)
"...
Ah! well a-day! what evil looks
Had I from old and young!
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung.
..."
Ah ! well a-day ! what evil looks
Had I from old and young !
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung.
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