Robert Service famous for his ballads of life in the Gold Rush years of the Yukon among them The Shooting of Dangerous Dan Mc Grew & " The Cremation of Sam Mc Gee" painted pictures of artists grisettes & models from the merry tragic life of bohemian Paris of the early 1900s inspired by the shadows of World War I as it fell across the city. Throughout these poems are expressions of the poet's own homespun philosophy. His verses offered gaiety humour mostalgia & pathos while his comments on women life & death ambition success & failure were all aimed to evoke quick response in the readers heart.""