Answer to Question #191732 in English for Makaia Hill

Question

Robert Service (1874-1958) was a poet who wrote mainly about Alaska. In one of his poems, “The Spell of the Yukon,” he writes the following lines: There’s a land where the mountains are nameless,  And the rivers all run God knows where;  There are lives that are erring and aimless,  And deaths that just hang by a hair;  There are hardships that nobody reckons; There are valleys unpeopled and still;                     There’s a land—oh, it beckons and beckons,   And I want to go back—and I will.   

Using Service’s poem as a source, create a person you think would be attracted to Alaska. List the person’s characteristics (for example, profession, age, gender, family background).   

Answer 1

(a)In  this poem from previous stanzas he talks of youths how they are trying to scramble gold and contrary to this stanza he talks like someone who has already left the Yukon town or so, it is like someone telling a story “there is a land…” “And what to go back, and I will”.

(b)characteristics; in previous stanzas he is talking of how they are struggling to scramble gold to get rich and therefore the characteristics are profession he is a prospector, age middle aged mostly a youth, gender he is male and family background is humble or poor.