Smart People Needed

I finished my A&I lit clep the other day and when I was done my mind went blank. I just remembered a few poems that were covered and I want to know what they were.

One was about some sort of sea disaster, something about forty people not coming back and only four living. It was something like this

ring a bell-
sound the bell-

and so on...

The other was about a whaling ship, it sounded demonic, it talks about a crazy captain in the end.

I'm not sure if anyone will know what they are, but its worth a try.

 

One more on there was something about two roads/paths on less traveled. Any who, those three poems were 20 questions on my test.

 

I'm not sure about the first two, but the two roads one sounds like Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken".

 

That's it, the last one was by Robert Frost.

 

Before, be serious. A whaling ship? A crazy captain?
Can you say Melville? Could it be Moby Dick?

 

lol........I'm serious! Is that what it was? It talked as if the ship was hell on earth (well sea) I had never read that before. I only read newer books, with the exception of a few greats. I bought MD last year and have started to read it a few times, did not like it. I did read Great Expectations, great book, hated the end. Any ways I was trying to help those who have not taken that clep, but I don't really remember much about it.

 

You owe it to yourself to read it. It's one of the gems of American literature.

 

I read at the time it was written it very unpopular with people. I guess when I have some free time I will have to look it over.

 

I wanted him to get a girl, any girl.

 

the road not taken
1. The Road Not Taken. Frost, Robert. 1920. Mountain Interval

could the bells possibly be
the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - song by gordon lightfoot
The Lyrics to the song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"

actual song here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvKGz4s3kuU

i didn't look very hard, but I couldn't find anything here about bells and a sea disaster
bell

 

No it was not the wreck of the edmund fitzgerald, for some reason I want to say it was by Dickinson

 

I never knew there was another version. Don't get me wrong I loved the book, I was sad when I got done reading it. I just wanted so much more for him.

 

There's an untitled Emily Dickinson poem about a shipwreck that begins like this:

 

Bingo, that was it. I had about 6-7 questions on that one.