Question

Read the poem.
The Cremation of Sam McGee

How does the simile in the third stanza affect the poem?


It briefly softens the mood of the poem by comparing the cold to something that is not cold.

It suggests that the stress of his experience caused the speaker to lose his sense of reality.

It implies that the speaker will be able to escape the cold because the driving of a nail takes only a short time.

It conveys the physical and mental pain caused by the brutal conditions of the icy North.

On a Christmas Day we were mushing our way

over the Dawson trail.

Talk of your cold! through the parka’s fold

it stabbed like a driven nail.

If our eyes we’d close, then the lashes froze

till sometimes we couldn’t see,

It wasn’t much fun, but the only one

to whimper was Sam McGee.

Answer 1

The simile in the third stanza affects the poem because;

• It conveys the physical and mental pain caused by the brutal conditions of the icy North.

Simile is a figure of speech where two words that share some similarities are directly compared using 'like' and 'as'.

In the third stanza of the poem, "The Cremation of Sam McGee", the poet likens the harsh cold in the arctics to the driving of a nail.

A nail is a sharp object which when driven into the body or a surface can result in pain.

So, in comparing the icy North to the driving of a nail, the poet was referring to the physical and mental pain that was caused by the brutal conditions in that space.

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