"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is Samuel Taylor Coleridge's most famous work. It is one of the early works of the Romantic era, published as part of Coleridge's collaboration with William Wordsworth in the collection Lyrical Ballads in 1798.
Most, but not all, of the poem takes place aboard a ship that is forced southward by a storm, almost to the South Pole. It takes quite a while for the ship to make its way back to England, and on the way there and back the crew, and then the lone-surviving speaker, see and experience many strange things.
A ship's logbook is meant to keep a daily record of distance travelled, navigational information, and incidents of note that occur on the voyage.
In Part I of the story, you might note in the logbook that a storm blew the ship far off course until they were caught up in snow and mist and then trapped in ice.
In Part II you would probably record the fact that after the crew headed back north for awhile, the wind died. As the boat and crew sat in the still water, slimy creatures appeared upon the sea.
Parts III through IV also offer plenty of subject matter for the log. Section VII is more concerned with the ship's arrival in England.
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