Discussion. 1. Who is addressed in the first stanza? 2. What comparison do you find in this stanza? 3. Tell the story in your own words. 4. Where was the treasure secured? 5. What marks of the ballad do you find in this poem? 6. What do you particularly like in this poem? 7. Pronounce the following: quagmires; palm.
Phrases
- [gray forgotten years, 184, 2]
- [bringing weary thought, 184, 3]
- [sunburn on our breasts, 185, 2]
- [rich as Lima Town, 185, 6]
- [in the crude and fashioned, 185, 11]
- [laid aboard the ship, 185, 15]
KILMENY
(A Song of the Trawlers)
ALFRED NOYES
Dark, dark lay the drifters, [against the red west],
As they shot their [long meshes of steel] overside;
And the oily green waters were rocking to rest
When Kilmeny went out, at the [turn of the tide].