Could someone give a line to line explanation of King Canute by William Makepeace Thackeray?Links also
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First Stanza:
King Canute was thinking by the sea - shore in tiredness about all the fights he had done in his life.
Second Stanza:
He was walking between many of his ministers.
Third Stanza:
Each one of them were acting like the King's shadow. If he frowned, everyone was contracting their face in sadness. If he was laughing, everyone did the same.
Fourth Stanza:
Something was irritating him that day. His wife tried to console him but he told her to stay quite.
Fifth Stanza:
His minister ask him what thing he is worried about.
Sixth Stanza:
He said not the food but the heart he is worried about. The minister gave order to bring the king's chair.
Seventh Stanza:
The chair was brought and he sat on it.
Eight Stanza:
He said that he had been killing, robbing many kingdoms, but there is no happiness he can find.
Ninth Stanza:
The son of the defeated kings are waiting to fight with him but he is here already unhappy.
Tenth Stanza:
He says that he is tired and his day of dying is nearby.
Eleventh Stanza:
The minister flatter the king that he will live for more than fifty years.
Twelfth Stanza:
The minister flatter that he is above the normal people. He is equal to God.
Thirteenth Stanza:
The king said that he'll give order to the moon to stop the tide.
Fourteenth Stanza:
It didn't happen. He prove to his minister that he isn't equal to God.
Fifteenth:
At last, the king dies. But the minister like him - flattering the king with lies - still lives.
What are we told of King Canute’s reign in the poem ‘’King Canute’’ by William Makepeace
Thackeray? Why was the King weary hearted? –