Themes in the Cremation of Sam Mcgee

The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert answer is an incredible example of a narrative ballad. It tells its story by means of internal and external riming couplets Now Sam McGee was from Tennes insure, where the cotton blooms and b belittleds.? Why he left his theater in the South to travel round the Pole, God only knows. ( help) with a measure which holds true through out the wmaw poem (Team, Shmoop Editorial). Services application of literary devices like alliteration enhances the flow of the poem roam round, cursed moth-eaten, foul or fair, fractional hid, and brawn and brains (Service).The raw of the safety is a major theme and Service uses an assort handst of other literary devices to convey his message (Team, Shmoop Editorial). He sets the tone with the oxymoron at the end of the early stanza midnight sun (Service) where midnight speaks to cold and sun to warmth. Then again in the premier quatrain he uses a metaphor to tell of how ones blood runs cold (Service) in the frosty. Service employs juxtaposition in the second quatrain when he puts Sams home in warm Tennessee where the cotton blooms and blows (Service) beside his feed residence of the Arctic where He is was always cold (Service).He utilizes a simile in such(prenominal) a manner that the referee can feel the relentless, penetrating cold Talk of your cold through the parkas fold it stabbed like a drive nail (Service). His use of individualification heavens scowled (Service) and I wrestled with grisly forethought (Service) paints an image of cold so effectively that we can see the Acheronian sky and feel the shiver of fear. Another theme that comes alive through the use of literary devices is the peculiar (Team, Shmoop Editorial).Services first quatrain is peppered with metaphors The Arctic booster cables concur their secret tales and The Northern Lights have seen queer sights (Service) which set the mood for the strange. after in the seventh quatrain Service uses a metaphor to emp hasis the cold and the darkness of the Arctic he finds himself in with Sams the Great Compromiser There wasnt a breath in that land of death. The conundrum of Sam wishing that hed sooner live in hell is an left(p) statement for any human.The imagery Service creates with his word choice allows you to see the narrator sing to the hateful thing, and it hearkened with a grinning (Service), burrowed a hole in the glowing coal, and stuff in Sam McGee (Service) or thither sat Sam, looking cool and calm, in the heart of the furnace roar (Service). Whether it is real or figurative is open to question. One could see a person singing to a corpse but to have the corpse grin back is weird.Now to stuff a corpse into a furnace of glowing coals and then to have the corpse came back to life and enjoy the fiery bide is not something anyone would actually do or witness and thus it takes the reader to a world of peculiar. A final theme to be introduced is that of knowledge (Team, Shmoop Editoria l). An interesting alliance is between the humans and the dogs. The dogs are symbiotic with the men and their actions are relayed to us using internal rhyming and a metaphor the huskies howled out their woes to the homeless snows O God ow I loathed the thing (Service) or And on I went, though the dogs were spent and the grub was getting low (Service). Sam and the narrators friendship is displayed to us by Services love of internal rhyming, A pals last need is a thing to heed or The trail was bad, and I felt half mad, but I swore I would not give in. He in like manner uses a metaphor to communicate the commitment between them even in death Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code (Service). Robert Service is truly a brainpower with the written word.His poem The Cremation of Sam McGee creates a timeless tale for past, present and future generations. The spell it casts on its listeners is produced through the placement of the words Service chooses. The Cremation of Sam McGee deserves to be the best poem in the world. Works Cited literary Devices. Literary Devices. N. p. , 2010. Web. 10 Mar. 2013. Service, Robert. RobertWService. Com. Robert W Service. com. Tacoma Technologies, 2012. Web. 10 Mar. 2013. Team, Shmoop Editorial. The Cremation of Sam McGee. Shmoop. com. Shmoop University Inc. , 2010. Web. 10 Mar. 2013.