Question

Anger is a vice that mars one 's sanity. In the context of the poem, `Lord Ullin‟s Daughter,‟ justify the statement.

Answer 1

A man can never make a right decision in anger, so did Lord Ullin he was unable to understand the love and he killed his daughter and her lover in rage. If he would have understood the feeling of love and set aside his anger, he would have behaved in sanity and his daughter would have been alive by now. 

Answer 2

Anger is a universal vice; it is the antithesis of love. It not only harms, injures or destroys( depending upon its intensity) the receiver, but also inflicts irreparable injury and hurt on the receiver. In the poem Lord Ullin became mad with rage when his daughter defied him and eloped with the Chieftain of Ulva clan. In anger, he followed his daughter and her lover with the intention of slaying the Chieftain. The couple knew it. So while fleeing from his rage, when they were crossing the stormy sea, Lord Ullin's daughter drowned with her lover and the boatman. Lord Ullin could not do any thing to save her, though he wanted to forgive her. He was left repenting over his mad decision of not allowing his daughter to marry her lover. He realised his mistake after the loss of his daughter. It was Lord Ullin's anger that had brought the tragedy.