Albatross (metaphor)
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The word albatross is sometimes used metaphorically to mean a psychological burden (most often associated with guilt or shame) that feels like a curse. It is an allusion to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798).[1]
This article is about the word as a metaphor. For other uses, see Albatross (disambiguation).