The Albatross is hung around the Mariner’s neck because it is a punishment for shooting the bird that brought the ship good luck in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Seven years later, in poor health, he moved to California to live with his mother and sister (who had moved there from New Hampshire). Nearly 12 years after his injury, Gage died of epileptic seizures.
