https://padlet.com/marilynraines/hipkdaamu381 Poetry Analysis en-us 2017-11-16 20:25:11 UTC 2023-03-09 11:33:57 UTC hello@padlet.com marilynraines https://padlet.com/marilynraines/hipkdaamu381/wish/207892327 2017-11-16 20:25:11 UTC https://padlet.com/marilynraines/hipkdaamu381/wish/207892327 marilynraines https://padlet.com/marilynraines/hipkdaamu381/wish/207894163 Summary:  The Arctic holds many secret stories, but one of the strangest is the one about

the narrator's cremation of Sam McGee.
Romanticism:  Appreciation of external nature/use of poetry--"Northern Lights," midnight sun (also imagery)
Naturalism:  death/cremation of Sam McGee forced/molded by his environment; nature's indifference to mankind
Personification:  Northern Lights "seeing"  (R-poetry)
Characteristics of Ballads:  rhyme--gold/cold; rhythm--marge; simple language--"There are strange things . . ."
Diction:  "make your blood run cold"
Most Important Lines:  "The Arctic trails have their secret tales/That would make your blood run cold."

]]> 2017-11-16 20:29:45 UTC https://padlet.com/marilynraines/hipkdaamu381/wish/207894163 https://padlet.com/marilynraines/hipkdaamu381/wish/209242162 2. Sam McGee realizes that he may die and asks his friend to cremate him.
3. Naturalism- (6)"It's the cursed cold, and its got right hold..."  Nature is indifferent to man/ man is molded by enviroment
Romanticism- (5)"Well he seemed so low that I couldn't say no" emphasis on emotions
Ballad-(1-2)"beneath the snow" "heel and toe"- rhyme-- (3) " I'll cash in this trip" emphasis on death and tradegy
Diction- cursed cold- shows extreme level of cold
Imagery- "Stars o'erhead were dancing heel and toe" -Stars are shining overhead; also personification
4 "So I want you to swear that, foul or fair, you'll cremate my last remains."]]> 2017-11-21 19:26:27 UTC https://padlet.com/marilynraines/hipkdaamu381/wish/209242162 https://padlet.com/marilynraines/hipkdaamu381/wish/209242788 Summary: The narrator was determined to fulfill Sam's death wish, cremation. 
Romanticism: "long, long night in lone firelight" remote time + place
Naturalism: "the trail has its own stern code" forces of environment..., indifference
Personification:  trail cannot have a code
Characteristics of a Ballad: rhyming-made/unpaid, simple language-bad and mad, song-every third word, focus-tragedy, adventure, suffering, struggle
Diction: "loathed" shows hatred
Most Important Lines: " The trail was bad, and I felt half made, but I swore I would not give in."]]> 2017-11-21 19:28:02 UTC https://padlet.com/marilynraines/hipkdaamu381/wish/209242788 https://padlet.com/marilynraines/hipkdaamu381/wish/209243133 Summary Statement- Narrator goes to check on Sam and finds him 'talking'
Naturalism- "I do not know how long in the snow I wrestled with grisy fear; But the stars came out and they danced about..."
Romanticism- Takes place in the Klondike (Shows interest in remote time and space)
Most Important Line- It's fine here, but I greatly fear you'll let in the cold and storm--"
Ballad-
Rhyme: Fear/Near, inside/wide, roar/door, storm/warm
Rhythm: "I do not KNOW how long in the SNOW..."
Emphasis on death: "And there sat Sam, looking cool and calm, in the heart of the furnace roar;"
Personification- "Stars came out and danced about"
Diction- "grisly fear"]]> 2017-11-21 19:28:40 UTC https://padlet.com/marilynraines/hipkdaamu381/wish/209243133 https://padlet.com/marilynraines/hipkdaamu381/wish/209243250 Summary: The narrator finds a cabin and decides that is where he will cremate Sam.
Romanticism:  ¨I burrowed a hole in the glowing coal, and I stuffed in Sam McGee¨ focuses on emotion because he cared about Sam McGee and wanted to fulfill his dying wish.
Naturalism: "frozen chum¨ because nature does not care if his dead friends is frozen or not.
Characteristics of a ballad: Rhyme - Marge of Lake Lebarge / hole and coal is internal rhyme.
Rhythm - I burrowed a hole in the glowing coal, and Ii stuffed i Sam McGee.
Tragedy: the cremation of Sam McGee
Most important lines: And I looked at it, ad I thought a bit, and I looked at my frozen chum; Then ¨here¨ said I, with a sudden cry, is my crematoreum.
Personification: The furnace roared
Diction: he said chum because it rhymed with crematoreum.]]> 2017-11-21 19:28:57 UTC https://padlet.com/marilynraines/hipkdaamu381/wish/209243250 https://padlet.com/marilynraines/hipkdaamu381/wish/209243531 Summary:  The arctic is extremely cold which is effecting Sam McGee the most
Romanticism: "It wasn't much fun, but the only one to whimper was Sam McGee."  --feeling something/ emotions
Naturalism: "If our eyes we'd  close, then the lashes froze till sometimes we couldn't see."   --nature is indifferent to mankind
Personification: "parka's fold stabbed like a driven nail"  and "cotton blooms and blows"
Characteristics of Ballads:  "rhyme~ McGee/see, blows/knows
adventure~ "why he left his home in the South to roam around the pole"
Most Important Lines: "Talk of your cold! through the parka's fold it stabbed like a driven nail]]> 2017-11-21 19:29:34 UTC https://padlet.com/marilynraines/hipkdaamu381/wish/209243531 https://padlet.com/marilynraines/hipkdaamu381/wish/209244732 Summary:Then narrator promises he will cremate Sam, then Sam dies, He imagines sam asking to be cremated
Romanticism: horror driven, emphasis on emotion
Naturalism: And before nightfall a corpse was all that was left of Sam McGee." Nature is indifferent to mankind
Characteristics of a ballad: rhyme (need,heed, fail,pale,sleigh,day)
Death "there wasn'ta breath in that land of death")
There is rhythym
Tragedy: Sam is dead

Personification: horror driven
Alliteration: half hid
Diction: ghastly pale
Imagery: he crouched on the sleigh
Most Important Line: And before nightfall a corpse was all that was left of Sam Mcgee]]> 2017-11-21 19:32:33 UTC https://padlet.com/marilynraines/hipkdaamu381/wish/209244732