A Glass of Beer
The lanky hank of a she in the inn over there
Nearly killed me for asking the loan of a glass of beer;
May the devil grip the whey-faced slut by the hair,
And beat bad manners out of her skin for a year.
That parboiled ape, with the toughest jaw you will see
On virtue's path, and a voice that would rasp the dead,
Came roaring and raging the minute she looked at me,
And threw me out of the house on the back of my head!
If I asked her master he'd give me a cask a day;
But she, with the beer at hand, not a gill would arrange!
May she marry a ghost and bear him a kitten, and may
The High King of Glory permit her to get the mange.
2006-10-02 08:29:08 · 5 answers · asked by salums16 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
what you need to do, for a summary, is to focus of the individual actions of the poem. You do not need to analyze it.
1) a lady was in a inn
2) just about killed the speaker over a glass of beer.
3) Then, the speaker curses the lady. (pretty bad.)
next stanza
4) she continues to call her names (that make her seem like an animal, that's analyzation, about her jaw, and her voice. indicate what she calls them and what it means, on a separate sheet of paper, for your analyzation, and go in order of the poem.)
5) she came roaring and raging when she looked at the speaker
6) And threw the speaker out of the house, and the speaker landed on their head. (that can't be good)
last stanza
7) something about it's not a good idea to ask her "master", whatever that means, because he'd give her a "cask" a day. and you can look that word up in www.m-w.com (merriam-webster.)
8)the lady, with a beer in her hand (for analyzation, at this point you may figure out that the speaker is a bar tender. If it is earlier, add proof)
9) I don't know how they mean gill here
10) the speaker curses her again
11) twice.
the sequence is action-curses.
on your analyzation paper, try to figure out not just what the curses meant, but....
notice the speaker focuses more attention on the descriptions of this mean lady than the actions that actually took place. One question is: why?
I guess, myself, that the reason is because these are clues to who this lady really is. And that's a good question too, who is this lady? She has no name, except for all these descriptions. Who is she?
2006-10-02 08:58:48 · answer #1 · answered by bun223 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An evil woman, possibly a spawn of the devil, who won't let the man drink for free. The barowner would, because he knows the guy, but the woman won't, so damn her!
2006-10-02 08:46:19 · answer #2 · answered by svetlana 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a guy that is mad cause the bar tender wont let him have a drink on his tab.. calling her names and wishes bad things upon her.
2006-10-02 08:42:55 · answer #3 · answered by just_libs 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a girl who looks like the devil wont serve you
2006-10-02 08:35:37 · answer #4 · answered by jenn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A bitchy bar tender!
2006-10-02 08:32:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋