The Noster Was a Ship of Swank
The Noster Was a Ship of Swank - meaning Summary
Playful Elegy About Loss
This short poem presents a wry, compressed account of two shipwrecks off Sum: the ostentatious Noster strikes a mine and sinks, and later the costly Ergo also perishes. The voice mixes deadpan reportage with playful phrasing, turning maritime disaster into a curt, ironic vignette that treats loss with brisk understatement. Its curt rhythm and sly parenthetical aside create a tone equal parts bemused and bleak.
Read Complete Analysesthe Noster was a ship of swank (as gallant as they come) until she hit a mine and sank just off the coast of Sum precisely where a craft of cost the Ergo perished later all hands(you may recall)being lost including captain Pater
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