Scholarly article: Plastic Literature, Ranjan Ghosh
https://muse-jhu-edu.wwwproxy1.library.unsw.edu.au/article/732562
Ranjan Ghosh's essay Plastic Literature brings literary representation into relation with plastic. His comparison of Samuel Coleridge’s "The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner" and Nick Hayes’s "The Rime of the Modern Mariner" is especially useful in highlighting the change of the sea in these plasticised times and the difference between an intellectual imagining of the sea and its modern physical reality, Ghosh writes: litter. "So, if the sea for Coleridge was imaged out of his readings, his engagements with travel writings and, of course, his imagination and had ice and the Albatross overhead, Nick Hayes’s sea has a reality that is portentous and perditious – the reality of a plastic sea and the Albatross with plastic in its stomach, gutting its intestines."