Monday, April 2, 2012

#20 Week 11 "Sir Patrick Spens"-Anonymous pg.483-484


Summary

A king is looking for a Sailor to brave a trip for him across the sea. An old knight tells the king of a great sailor Sir Patrick Spens. When the king summons the sailor with a note, the sailor laughs at the request. Sir Patrick thinks the king must be kidding wanting to send him and his crew out on the open seas in such horrible weather: a storm was coming in. Never the less, Sir Patrick gathers his crew and obeys the kings orders of leaving in the morning. Sir Patrick knows the fait he and his men are about to face, the narrator describes what the sailors will face in a tone of voice that does not alarm the reader. The final part of the poem talks about what the sailors’ families will have to deal with and how the sailors will die and who they will go see (their gods). And in the last stanza talks about Sir Patrick and how he lies at peace with the sea and goes to his Scottish God’s feet.

Reader Response      

I am a little lost on who the narrator was, I think it was told in third person but I also think it could be the king or Sir Patrick. I think the beginning is told in third person and the second half of the poem is told by Sir Patrick. I liked the poem over all, it was well written and it rhymed which I love! I tend to enjoy and pay more attention to poems that rhyme because they just sound a lot better when they are being read, in my opinion. I thought Sir Patrick was kind of stupid for sailing out when he knew he shouldn’t, I think he should have at least told the king that the weather was not right or asked to post pone the trip. The poem was dark but with a light tone to it, it was kind of weird.

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