Author: Ano Sensei
Format: Game
Subject Matter: Ancient Mariner, Coleridge, engraving, Gustave Doré, illustration, interactive, memory game, Romantic Poetry, visual art
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Every stanza of Coleridge’s poem has a Doré engraving hiding somewhere on the board — flip two cards at a time to find matching pairs. Solve a round and the poem builds up beneath it, in order, as a growing illustrated record of what you’ve found. Jump between all seven parts freely, and see how much of the whole poem you can piece together.
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