Read the poem.

The Cremation of Sam McGee

by Robert W. Service

How does the simile in the third stanza affect the poem?

A.) It conveys the physical and mental pain caused by the brutal conditions of the icy North.

B.) It suggests that the stress of his experience caused the speaker to lose his sense of reality.

C.) It briefly softens the mood of the poem by comparing the cold to something that is not cold.

D.) It implies that the speaker will be able to escape the cold because the driving of a nail takes only a short time.

The the simile in the third stanza “Talk of your cold! through the parka's fold it stabbed like a driven nail”. affects the poem because A.) It conveys the physical and mental pain caused by the brutal conditions of the icy North.

The comparison of the cold being the same as a nail that stabs through your clothes gives you a clear picture of what those men looking for gold where up against. It also sets the scene of the kind of conditions to which prospectors where submitted in the Artic.

melisarevilla melisarevilla · Answer 2 · 2019-09-30T02:18:36+02:00

Answer:

Hi! The answer would be option A. It conveys the physical and mental pain caused by the brutal conditions of the icy North.

Explanation:

Among the many similes in the third stanza, the one that relates more to the answer would be the simile that goes "Talk of your cold! through the parka's fold it stabbed like a driven nail." This refers to a place that's freezing to the point where you feel like the cold is directly attacking (stabbing) you.