Robert Service wrote in the golden years of the Klondike -- of the
rough and ready men, and women just as tough. No-one in Robert's
world (real or imagined) minced words or had any self-consciousness
about them. It was live and let live and sometimes kill or be
killed. Reading his poems transports us back to that frozen place
in nature when it was literally every man and every woman for
him/herself, yet Robert conveys to us not only a sensitivity (in
his poem extolling the simple light switch -- something quite novel
in those times, especially in the Klondike), but the beauties he
saw in the others -- gathered around the village's first
"grammyphone," hearing the voice of "canned man" coming from it --
some savages taking to their canoes because it seems demonic, yet
others equally savage, enraptured by this miracle of sound. Robert
Service touches the heart and soul of the rough and raw Klondike in
the early 1900's, and shows us the soul's emotions and colors from
inky black to pure gold.
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