An Unwelcome Interruption
(Ken Methold)
Many people can tell stories about
door-to-door salesman.
They come to our homes and apartments or
telephone us and, unless we are rude, it is difficult to make them go away.
For most of us, the time they waste is not
too important.
For one man, however, the visit of a
salesman was a disaster.
The man was Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a
famous eighteenth-century English poet.
He is best known for his long poem, The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner.
At this time, however, he was writing
another one of his famous poems, Kubla
Khan.
Unfortunately, it is only 54 lines long and
comes to a sudden end.
Why? Because while he was writing it,
Coleridge was visited by an insurance salesman.
Coleridge had been ill, and he had taken
opium to make him feel better.
He had fallen into a drugged sleep and
dreamt the poem.
As soon as he woke up, he wrote down his
dream ? the first 54 lines of Kubla Khan.
Then the insurance salesman came to his
door.
By the time, Coleridge got rid of him; he
had forgotten the rest of his dream.
And this is why he was never able to finish
Kubla Khan.
It isn?t known
whether Coleridge bought any insurance from the salesman!
Resumos Relacionados
- The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner And Other Poems
- Books
- Terribly Good
- Death Of A Salesman.
- The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
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