Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Cremation of Sam McGee is among the most famous of Robert W. Service's (1874–1958) poems. It was published in 1907 in Songs of a Sourdough. (A \"sourdough\", in this sense, is a resident of the Yukon.) It concerns the cremation of a prospector who freezes to death near Lake Laberge, (spelled \"Lebarge\" by Service), Yukon, Canada, as told by the man who cremates him.The night prior to the death of the title character, who is from the fictional town of Plumtree, Tennessee, asks the narrator \"to swear that, foul or fair, you'll cremate my last remains\". The narrator knows that \"A pal's last need is a thing to heed,\" and swears he will not fail to cremate him. After McGee dies the following day, the narrator winds up hauling the body clear to the \"marge [shore, edge] of Lake Lebarge\" before he finds a way to perform the promised cremation. Robert Service based the poem on an experience of his roommate, Dr. Sugden, who found a corpse in the cabin of the steamer Olive May.A success upon its initial publication in 1907, the poem became a staple of traditional campfire storytelling in North America throughout the 20th century. An edition of the poem, published in 1986 and illustrated by Ted Harrison, was read widely in Canadian elementary schools."@en }
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- The_Cremation_of_Sam_McGee abstract "The Cremation of Sam McGee is among the most famous of Robert W. Service's (1874–1958) poems. It was published in 1907 in Songs of a Sourdough. (A \"sourdough\", in this sense, is a resident of the Yukon.) It concerns the cremation of a prospector who freezes to death near Lake Laberge, (spelled \"Lebarge\" by Service), Yukon, Canada, as told by the man who cremates him.The night prior to the death of the title character, who is from the fictional town of Plumtree, Tennessee, asks the narrator \"to swear that, foul or fair, you'll cremate my last remains\". The narrator knows that \"A pal's last need is a thing to heed,\" and swears he will not fail to cremate him. After McGee dies the following day, the narrator winds up hauling the body clear to the \"marge [shore, edge] of Lake Lebarge\" before he finds a way to perform the promised cremation. Robert Service based the poem on an experience of his roommate, Dr. Sugden, who found a corpse in the cabin of the steamer Olive May.A success upon its initial publication in 1907, the poem became a staple of traditional campfire storytelling in North America throughout the 20th century. An edition of the poem, published in 1986 and illustrated by Ted Harrison, was read widely in Canadian elementary schools.".