swear upon. Until the vow is fulfilled or when death breaks the tie, it still holds you like an unbreakable bond. A man with a conscience will hold true, and he will not run from his word, like a samurai, he will follow it till death. “The Cremation of Sam McGee”, a narrative poem written by Robert Service, tells the tale of a man who makes a promise to cremate his dying friend in the middle of the freezing, cold arctic, and he goes through drastic circumstances to keep it. Because he keeps his word
University of Glasgow. Over the years Service traveled to western Canada and Yukon. He met some very interesting people and fell in love with their stories. These people and their stories helped him to think of things to write about, such as the Cremation of Sam Mcgee, A Mediocre Man, The Spell Of Yukon, and many others. Before Service’s poems became famous, he offered to give a publisher one hundred of his own dollars so that his poems could be put into a book. But even before he offered this to the publisher
responsible for maintaining one’s trust in them. An example that shows one’s capability of maintaining trust and responsibility is within the ballad, “The Cremation of Sam McGee” by Robert W. Service when it states in the story, “So I want you to swear that, foul or fair, you’ll cremate my last remains.” (Service 20). In this scenario, dying Sam McGee’s last breathe is that he asks his partner Cap, the narrator of the story, to cremate his cadaver when he dies. Cap, agrees to this regardless of how