A. Question
1. Which professions did the man claim as his own?
2. Which lines in the poem tell us that the man was generally unfortunate? 3. How many men were left on the ship after it struck a reef?
4. How did the sailors decide who was to go first?
5. What do you think the following lines mean? But we'd both be blowed if we'd either be stowed In the other chap's hold
6. Why did the cook feel he had more of a right to stay alive?
7. How did the cook meet his end?
8. The poem has a grim subject, yet the poet makes it amusing. How does he do this? Pick out the funny expressions and ideas.
9. In what way is the old sailor (the speaker) unreliable?
10. In what way are these lines ironic? And I eat that cook in a week or less, And - as I eating be The last of his chops, why, I almost drops,... T а
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Answer:
Explanation:
The Yarn of the 'Nancy Bell'" first appeared in Fun 2 (3 March 1866): 238, and republished in the Bab Ballads, a series of humorous verses published in Fun and other periodicals between 1862 and 1871, with many illustrations by the author signed 'Bab' (Gilbert's nickname derived from his having been called "Baby" as a child). What distinguishes this particular poem is its having been rejected by the editor of Punch as "too cannibalistic for his readers' tastes" ("Preface" to Fifty Bab Ballads, p. vii). In its ballad metre, internal rhyme, and dual narrative voices, as well as its subject matter, it has often been compared to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
Answer:
which profission did the man claim as his own?