Main TopicsWhat prevents Sam from going home in the Cremation of Sam McGee?
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- What prevents Sam from going home in the Cremation of Sam McGee?
- What was Sam McGee's problem?
- What was Sam McGee's last request?
- Did the dogs die in Sam McGee?
- Why did Sam McGee leave his home in Tennessee?
- What did the sleigh say to Sam McGee?
- What was the promise made by Sam McGee?
- Where did the cremation of Sam McGee take place?
What prevents Sam from going home in the Cremation of Sam McGee?
His want for gold. Sam McGee- What prevents Sam from going home? Cap, cremate.
What was Sam McGee's problem?
"The Cremation of Sam McGee" is among the most famous of Robert W. Service's (1874–1958) poems. It was published in 1907 in Songs of a Sourdough. ... It concerns the cremation of a prospector who freezes to death near Lake Laberge (spelled "Lebarge" by Service), Yukon, Canada, as told by the man who cremates him.
What was Sam McGee's last request?
In stanzas 4 and 5, Sam refers to “cash[ing] in” and makes his “last request.” The fear of the “icy grave” prompts him to exact the promise that Cap will “cremate [his] last remains.”
Did the dogs die in Sam McGee?
What happened to Cap's sled dogs? How did this make things worse for Cap? They got tired and died. They didn't have a lot of food and it slowed them down.
Why did Sam McGee leave his home in Tennessee?
I cremated Sam McGee. Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee, where the cotton blooms and blows. Why he left his home in the South to roam 'round the Pole, God only knows. Though he'd often say in his homely way that "he'd sooner live in hell." On a Christmas Day we were mushing our way over the Dawson trail.
What did the sleigh say to Sam McGee?
And before nightfall a corpse was all that was left of Sam McGee. It was lashed to the sleigh, and it seemed to say: "You may tax your brawn and brains, But you promised true, and it's up to you to cremate those last remains." Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.
What was the promise made by Sam McGee?
Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code. In the days to come, though my lips were dumb, in my heart how I cursed that load. In the long, long night, by the lone firelight, while the huskies, round in a ring, Howled out their woes to the homeless snows— O God! how I loathed the thing.
Where did the cremation of Sam McGee take place?
Since I left Plumtree, down in Tennessee, it's the first time I've been warm." I cremated Sam McGee.
