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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