What happens when the speaker lights Sam McGee’s funeral pyre?

The speaker returned to find Sam McGee alive and smiling.

Explanation:

The Cremation of Sam McGee is a poem written by Robert.

It is the story told by the poem speaker about a cold winter trip during the Klondike Gold Rush in Yukon, Canada. The speaker narrates a story of his friend Sam McGee who freezes to death near Lake Larbege.

Before Sam dies he gives a wish to not be buried out in the cold, he asks to be cremated instead. The speaker agrees and carries his body a long distance looking for where to burn Sam's body.

He finds one and starts the burning process only to find out that Sam was only frozen and is alive and well and only needed a some heat to defrost a little.

this need to be done in 15 minutes kind of passed the 15 minutes by now sorry dude but i can list some of my thoughts down for you : (

1.   in sonnet 18, the speaker wants to describe the beauty of his love, but can’t find the words to do so. the speaker says “then in mid-utterance the lay was lost” when he tries to think of the words to describe his love’s beauty.   through his defeat of finding words to describe his love, he shows his love for her.

2.   instead of describing how perfect his love is or comparing her to other beautiful things, he says she is average and there is nothing special about her.   at the last 2 lines of the poem, the volta changes the poem by saying that even though his love is average in beauty, his love for her is special and unique. so instead of praising her throughout the whole poem, he contrasts her average characteristics with his special love for her.

3.   the beloved asked the speaker to describe how he feels about her. she begins to describe what she feels but "drop the torch" and says that she can't do it because the words "hid in me out of reach." the the speaker says "nay, let the silence of my womanhood command my woman-love to thy belief" and that her silence will have to be the answer to his question.