moral lesson of poem inchcape rock
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The Inchcape Rock is a poem by Robert Southey. This poem revolves around the Inchcape rock. It is a perilous obstruction in the Scottish sea. The Abbot of Aberbrothok had tied a bell to this rock so that sailors could hear it and be saved . People used to praise the monk for his great deed.Sir Ralph was a sea pirate and was jealous of the Abbot. He never liked people praising the monk. So, he decided to cut the bell and he even did so. One day, he was caught in a storm and died due to the Inchcape rock. "You cannot be alive by killing other people." - According to me, this is the moral of this poem.
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Robert Southey’s poem ‘The Inchcape Rock’ is a didactic poem where he narrates the legendary story surrounding the Inchcape Rock. The Abbott wanted to do some good to the mankind by tying a bell to the rock to alert the passing ships of the danger of the rock. But the Rover Ralph got jealous at the popularity of the Abbott. So he cut the bell from the rock and looted the ships that suffered due to bad weather and hit the rock. In the end, the rover himself got punished when his own ship lost the way and hit the same rock, causing his death. This is called poetic justice in literary term. The poet has delivered a great message through the poem:
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