To punish him, his companions induce him to wear the dead albatross around his neck indefinitely (until they all die from the curse, as it happens).

It was always hard to get going, for if I didn't carry my own sins, and hence guilt, then my dad's sins were always about to be draped around my neck like a dead albatross.

Or you could tie a dead albatross around his neck and call him Ishmael.

In anger, the crew forces the Mariner to wear the dead albatross about his neck, perhaps to illustrate the burden he must suffer from killing it, or perhaps as a sign of regret ("Ah!

The book did not satisfy Greene and he planned to leave it in a drawer - it hung "like a dead albatross" around his neck.

Video slide show showing dead albatrosses filled with plastic on Midway Atoll.

Instead of the regular movie snacks she is selling a dead albatross.

Poet Denis Glover mentioned the settlement in his poem Threnody: "In Plimmerton, in Plimmerton, the little penguins play, and one dead albatross was found at Karehana Bay"

She recalled the poem from school about the man who had to wear a dead albatross around his neck.

He is going to be one dead albatross.