Answer :
In the poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the poet describes the sailing ship as "as idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean". This sentence highlights the unusual fact that the sailors notice that the wind has completely stopped blowing. The sailing ship has now reached the silent sea. As a result, the sailing ship appears to be stuck at one place and not to be moving at all and is as still as the painting of a ship.
