Robert Service Poetry

Oral Interpretation Pieces?

My piece for prose is The Nightmare at 20,000 feet by richard matheson and my poetry piece is the cremation of sam mcgee by robert service. i don’t like the poem that much since its not one that you can win with. does anyone have any suggestions that i can replace it with. It should be lively, have lots of expression, different characters then giving me opportunity to change my voice, and be able to be read more like a story rather than a poem since it is a competition not a recital.

What does COLOURS (stanza 1 line 3) means?

i’m doing this poetry analysis of poem by Robert W. Service entitled Young Fellow My Lad.. this is the poem:

"Where are you going, Young Fellow My Lad,
On this glittering morn of May?"
"I’m going to join the Colours, Dad;
They’re looking for men, they say."
"But you’re only a boy, Young Fellow My Lad;
You aren’t obliged to go."
"I’m seventeen and a quarter, Dad,
And ever so strong, you know."

"So you’re off to France, Young Fellow My Lad,
And you’re looking so fit and bright."
"I’m terribly sorry to leave you, Dad,
But I feel that I’m doing right."
"God bless you and keep you, Young Fellow My Lad,
You’re all of my life, you know."
"Don’t worry. I’ll soon be back, dear Dad,
And I’m awfully proud to go."

"Why don’t you write, Young Fellow My Lad?
I watch for the post each day;
And I miss you so, and I’m awfully sad,
And it’s months since you went away.
And I’ve had the fire in the parlour lit,
And I’m keeping it burning bright
Till my boy comes home; and here I sit
Into the quiet night.

"What is the matter, Young Fellow My Lad?
No letter again to-day.
Why did the postman look so sad,
And sigh as he turned away?
I hear them tell that we’ve gained new ground,
But a terrible price we’ve paid:
God grant, my boy, that you’re safe and sound
But oh I’m afraid, afraid."

"They’ve told me the truth, Young Fellow My Lad:
You’ll never come back again:
(Oh God! the dreams and the dreams I’ve had,
and the hopes I’ve nursed in vain!)
For you passed in the night, Young Fellow My Lad,
And you proved in the cruel test
Of the screaming shell and the battle hell
That my boy was one of the best.
"So you’ll live, you’ll live, Young Fellow My Lad,
In the gleam of the evening star,
In the wood-note wild and the laugh of the child,
In all sweet things that are.
And you’ll never die, my wonderful boy,
While life is noble and true;
For all our beauty and hope and joy
We will owe to our lads like you."

Forensics Tournament:Oral Interpretation:poetry piece?

My piece for prose is The Nightmare at 20,000 feet by richard matheson and my poetry piece is the cremation of sam mcgee by robert service. i don’t like the poem. does anyone have any suggestions that i can replace it with. It should be lively, have lots of expression, different characters then giving me opportunity to change my voice, and be able to be read more like a story rather than a poem since it is a competition not a recital.

What is the meaning of the poem Nature's way by Robert Service?

To tribulations of mankind
Dame Nature is indifferent;
To human sorrow she is blind,
And deaf to human discontent.
Mid fear and fratricidal fray,
Mid woe and tyranny of toil,
She goes her unregarding way+
Of sky and sun and soil.

In leaf and blade, in bud and bloom
Exultantly her gladness glows,
And careless of Man’s dreary doom
Around the palm she wreathes the rose;
Creating beauty everywhere,
With happy bird in holy song . . .
Please God, let us be unaware
Like her of wrath and wrong.

Let us too be indifferent,
And in her hands our fate resign;
Aye, though the world with rage is rent
Let us be placid as the pine.
For if we turn from greed and guile
Maybe Dame Nature will relent,
And bless us with her lovely smile
Of comfort and content.

Robert Service
and how does it relate with nature…..
a quote in the poem should represent that
THANKS

Oral Interpretation Poetry Piece for Speech?

My piece for prose is The Nightmare at 20,000 feet by Richard Matheson and my poetry piece is the cremation of Sam Mcgee by Robert Service. i don’t like the poem that much since its not one that you can win with. does anyone have any suggestions that i can replace it with. It should be lively, have lots of expression, different characters then giving me opportunity to change my voice, and be able to be read more like a story rather than a poem since it is a competition not a recital.

The Shooting Of Dan McGrew by Robert Service. Was the Lady known as Lou Lenin's girlfriend?

I have read that this poem is grounded in a plot that was exporting communism to the USA through Alaska; that Dan McGrew was a USA intelligence officer; that the people that shot him were communist agents and that the "lady that was known as Lou was really Lenin’s girlfriend. I woujld like verification of this supposition.

Are there any Robert Service fans out there?

What’s your favorite R.S. poem and why? Mine are "Grin" and "The Men That Don’t Fit In" cause They relate to my life.

Poem analysis for Robert W. Service's poem A Grain of Sand?

A web page link, or if you are good at analyzing poetry in detail.

Here is the poem:

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-grain-of-sand/

I need this soon.

Thanks!

What are poetic devices in this poem by robert service " lottery Ticket'?

‘A ticket for the lottery
I’ve purchased every week,’ said she
‘For years a score
Though desperately poor am I,
Oh how I’ve scrimped and scraped to buy
One chance more.

Each week I think I’ll gain the prize,
And end my sorrows and my sighs,
For I’ll be rich;
Then nevermore I’ll eat bread dry,
With icy hands to cry and cry
And stitch and stitch.’

‘Tis true she won the premier prize;
It was of formidable size,
Ten million francs.
I know, because the man who sold
It to her splenically told
He got no thanks.

The lucky one was never found,
For she was snugly underground,
And minus breath;
And with that ticket tucked away,
In some old stocking, so they say,
She starved to death.

what kind of poem is Little Brother by Robert Service?

like its fixed form.
Are you sure its in quatrain form? Whats your source? Thanks alot

Robert Service