"The Cremation of Sam McGee"
by Robert Service
A ballad (lyric poem that tells a story, rhyme scheme varies, made up of quatrains/4 line stanzas)
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1. __________a - contains internal rhyme
2. __________b - end rhyme with line 4
3. __________c - contains internal rhyme
4. __________b - end rhyme with line 2
There are strange things done in the midnight sun - INTERNAL RHYME
By the men who moil for gold;
The arctic trails have their secret tales - INTERNAL RHYME
That would make your blood run cold - END RHYME with Line 2
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ReplyDeleteThe creamation of Sam McGee was about two men who mushed the frontier of Alaska looking for gold, only to find nothing but death. One of the two men froze to death, before he died he asked his friend not to leave him but to creamate him and take him back to Tennessee. The man did so and creamated his friend in a steam engine of a wrecked ship, as he opened the door to check on the body of his friend he spoke to him and asked if could close the door because the chill of outside was coming in.
ReplyDeleteThe poem is about a freezing-cold winter trip in the Yukon, back in the days of the Klondike Gold Rush. he poem’s speaker tells us a story about his friend, Sam McGee, who freezes to death on the trail. Sam hates the cold and doesn’t want to be buried in the frozen ground. So, as his dying wish, he asks our speaker to cremate him. The speaker promises he will, but it’s tough to find a way to do it in the dead of winter. He ends up having a lousy trip, carrying Sam’s frozen corpse until he finds a spot to burn Sam’s body. He starts to burn Sam, but is pretty grossed out by the whole thing. Then, when he goes to see if Sam is "cooked," he finds his friend alive..
ReplyDeleteThe creamation of Sam McGee was about two men who are in Alaska looking for gold but the dont find anything.One of the men froze to death and before he died he told his friend not to leave him but creamate him and take him to Tennessee. So the man did as he said and creamated him and some how he came back alive because he got warm again.
ReplyDeleteWell this was a very wierd story.There was two guy looking for gold.One of them end up dieing but his friend had a promise to up hold, So the promise was to burn his body.When he did his friend came back to life :)
ReplyDeleteThe cremation of Sam McGee is about two men who go on a journey.They were looking for gold but they found nothing.One man made a promise to cremate him if he died.After the man died the man had to keep his promise.He finds a ship with a furnace and starts the fire.After Sam McGee was tossed in the fire he was brought back to life when he got warm.
ReplyDeleteThe poem is about a freezing-cold winter trip in the Yukon, back in the days of the Klondike Gold Rush. he poem’s speaker tells us a story about his friend, Sam McGee, who freezes to death on the trail. Sam hates the cold and doesn’t want to be buried in the frozen ground. So Sam tells them to burn his body when he dies, then when they were burning his body and they go to check on his body and he was alive.
ReplyDeleteThis poem is about two friends who mush through snow looking for gold.when one of the friends are talking about how it is so cold and that back in tennessee it was warm.but as they adventure continued one of the two friends died from being so cold.so he made a promise to his friend to cremate him and he would be warm agien just like in tennassee.so when finding a spot to brun his friend he puts him in but after a couple of minutes he open the door to find his friend talking to him telling him to close the door
ReplyDeleteThe poem is about a man named Sam McGee who moved to Alaska to search for gold. Sam got cold so he died, but before he died he asked his friend to creamate him. So his friend took on this long trip to a ship. Put him in the coal engine and his friend came back to life.
ReplyDeleteThe Cremation of Sam Mcgee is about two friends that go to the Yukon to find Gold. But one of them men is dieing and he wants to go back to tennesee where it is warm. So he asked his friend to make him one last promise before he died. Which was to be cremated just because of the fact that it was warm. So his friend promised his that he would.And by the next night he was a cold corpse. So he carryed him on his sled trying to find somewhere to cremate him. Then he finally came upon a boat with a boiler. So he took his body down tot he boiler and stuffed Sam Mcgee's body into the boiler. And her couldn't stand to here his friends body sizzle so he went and waited outside. Later he decideded that he would go check on him and when he opened the door to the boiler, Sam Mcgee sat up and told his friend to shut the door that it was cold outside and the brezze was coming in and that was the night he creamated Sam Mcgee.
ReplyDeleteThis poem is about two guys in on a winter trip in freezing cold weather. They are walking and Sam McGee tells his friend if he dies burn his body. So there walking an Sam dies and his friend drags him. To a old wrecked ship and he puts him in the fire pit turns it on and. Then he opens the door and he sees Sam McGee alive. And he tells him to close the door because it was cold outside.
ReplyDeleteThe Cremation of Sam McGee is about two men looking for gold in Alaska. Cap, the one telling the story, promises his friend that he'd burn his body if he died. His friend ends up freezing to death later, and Cap has to drag his body around. He finally found an abandoned ship's boiler to burn Sam in, and much to his surprise finds him sitting in there just fine.
ReplyDeleteThis poem is about Sam McGee and his friend who are both prospecters in a freezing cold landscape. Eventually Sam McGee dies from hypothermia and asks his friend to burn his body. When he does he finds out that Sam comes back to life becuase he finally got warm.
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