1. The Cremation of Sam McGeeBy
Robert Service

2. A Narrative Poem – tells a story

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5. Midnight Sun

6. The midnight sun is a natural phenomenon occurring in summer months at latitudes north and nearby to the south of the Arctic Circle, and south and nearby to the north of the Antarctic Circle where the sun remains visible at the local midnight.

7. Sam McGee – from Tennessee

8. Mushing Our Way

9. Tall tale – oral tradition uses hyperbole, humor

10. Rhyme Scheme There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake LeBarge
I cremated Sam McGee.

11. Figurative Language Similes Metaphors
Talk of cold! Through the parka’s fold/ it stabbed like a driven nail
Metaphors
And the greasy smoke in an inky cloak

12. Figurative Language Personification Hyperbole
The Northern lights have seen queer sights
Hyperbole
He’d sooner live in hell