Frankenstein and poetry

Frankenstein is not hugely connected to poetry. True, their are excerpts from certain poems throughout the book, and true, you could compare the whole of Frankenstein to a rather dark sonnet. However, in and of itself, it is not poetry. However, their is one poem, or rather a few stanzas from it that seems to have connections to Frankenstein. The poem in question is "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (which is quoted in the novel on page 44). The Ancient Mariner's ship was driven towards the south pole in a storm, and a bird known as the albatross ascended on the ship and was seen as a good omen. The Ancient Mariner, out of anger or frustration or some other emotion shoots and kills the albatross with his crossbow (I feel that his reasoning for shooting the albatross is not explored well in the actual poem). His killing of the albatross begets all matter of misfortune upon him and his crew. Thusly, you could draw a conjecture between the killing of the albatross in the poem and the awakening of the demon in the novel. This is ironic because the death of the albatross is just that, death, whereas the awakening of the monster is life. But is it really? I believe that the birth of Victor's monster is not truly birth, but rather a twisted incarnation of it. The fact that it is animated out of deceased corpses makes it, in my opinion, anything but life. In particular, their is one segment that connects very faithfully to Frankenstein, transcribed below. The ship LIFE-IN-DEATH has just pulled up beside the captain's vessel, and the following occurs slightly after that-

"The naked hulk alongside came,
And twain were casting dice;
"The game is done! I've won! I've Won!
Quoth she, and whistles thrice.

...With far-heard whisper, o'er the sea,
Off shot the spectre-bark.

One after one, by the star dogged Moon,
Too quick for groan or sigh
Each turned his face with a ghastly pang
And cursed me with his eye. Four times fifty living men,
(And I heard nor sigh nor goran)
With heavy thump, a lifeless lump,
They dropped down one by one.
The souls did from their bodies fly,--
They flied to bliss or woe!
And every soul, it passed me by,
Like the whizz of my cross-bow!"

Based on this passage, one may connect the death of the captain's crew at the hands of Death itself with the death of Victor's friends and family at the hands of the monster. It should be notd that although none of Victor's friends or family curse him upon death, he believes in his now twisted mind that they may have, which arguably drives him to seek vengeance. The last significant connection comes near the end of the poem, where you learn the Ancient Mariner has begun to travel from land to land to teach others by his own example, to respect everything that God has created. This is similar to the way Victor relates his tale to the ship captain, in that one may believe he hopes his tale will reach all matter of ears, and prevent others from repeating his mistake. The animation of the monster itself connects to the creation of the monster itself-If Victor had simply let things lie as they were, and decided to respect life, instead of defiling all manner of things in order to create his monster, the whole ghastly tragedy of his tale could have been avoided.