Question

Summary of the poem the wreck of the hesperus summary

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Explanation:

The Wreck of the Hesperus" is a narrative poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first published in Ballads and Other Poems in 1842. It is a story that presents the tragic consequences of a skipper's pride. On an ill-fated voyage in winter, he brings his daughter aboard ship for company.

Answer 2

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The vessel was swept to the Norman's woe. The storm got her too and she died, hit by wind, surf, waves and rocks. At daybreak, a fisherman finds her cold, ice body, still tied to the mast. Such is the wreck of the Hesperus, says the poet.