The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #45569   Message #678120
Posted By: Fiolar
28-Mar-02 - 10:26 AM
Thread Name: BS: Thatcher speaks no more
Subject: RE: BS: Thatcher speaks no more
I think it was the Gaurdian recently who compared her to "the ancient Mariner." Some of the lines in the poem could have been written specially for her. "The Wedding Guest he beat his breast,
Yet he cannot choose but hear;
And thus spake on that ancient man,
The bright eyed mariner."