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Summary of the poem Godfrey Gordon Gustavus gore

Answer 1

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Godfrey Gordon Gustavus Gore —
No doubt you have heard the name before —
Was a boy who never would shut a door!
The wind might whistle, the wind might roar,
And teeth be aching and throats be sore,
But still he never would shut the door.
His father would beg, his mother implore,
“Godfrey Gordon Gustavus Gore,
We really do wish you would shut the door!”
Their hands they wrung, their hair they tore;
But Godfrey Gordon Gustavus Gore
Was deaf as the buoy out at the Nore.
When he walked forth the folks would roar,
“Godfrey Gordon Gustavus Gore,
Why don’t you think to shut the door?”
They rigged up a Shutter with sail and oar,
And threatened to pack off Gustavus Gore
On a voyage of penance to Singapore.
But he begged for mercy and said, “No more!
Pray do not send me to Singapore
On a Shutter, and then I will shut the door!”
“You will?” said his parents; “then keep on shore!
But mind you do! For the plague is sore
Of a fellow that never will shut the door,
Godfrey Gordon Gustavus Gore!”

Answer 2

The poem "Godfrey Gordon Gustavus Gore" has been written by David Rands. The poem is about a boy who never does the work assigned to him. The boy named Godfrey Gordon Gustavus Gore never shuts the door. His father and mother would plead, request and order him to shut the door but he would always keep it open. It was only when his parents decided to give him the punishment of sending him to Singapore that he says that he would shut the door from that time onwards.

In a broader perspective, the poem focuses much about human nature. As humans, we always delay and do not give importance to certain things. At a time when punishments and penance come to our way, we start to acknowledge the work and starts to do it.