The Rime of the Ancient Mariner a salvation story. The poem's structure is multi-layered text based on Coleridge's interest in Higher Criticism. "Like the Iliad or Paradise Lost or any great historical product, the "Rime" is a work of transhistorical rather than so-called universal significance. This verbal distinction is important because it calls attention to a real one. Like The Divine Comedy or any other poem, the "Rime" is not valued or used always or everywhere or by everyone in the same way or for the same reasons." George Whalley, in his 1946–47 essay, "The Mariner and the Albatross", suggests that the Ancient Mariner is an
Water, Water Every Hare Water, Water Every Hare Water, Water Every Hare is a "Looney Tunes" cartoon released in 1952 featuring Bugs Bunny and Gossamer, with a similar premise to "Hair-Raising Hare". The title is a pun on the line "Water, water, everywhere / Nor any drop to drink" from the poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The cartoon is available on Disc 1 of the "". Much like in "Hair-Raising Hare", Bugs (after being flooded out of his rabbit hole while sleeping during a heavy rain) finds himself trapped in the castle of an "evil scientist" (the neon