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The Famous Tay Whale, the Glossary

"The Famous Tay Whale" is a poem by William Topaz McGonagall about the Tay Whale, also known as the Monster, a humpback whale hunted and killed in 1883 in the Firth of Tay near Dundee, Scotland, then the country's main whaling port.^[1]

Dissection

Dissection (from Latin dissecare "to cut to pieces"; also called anatomization) is the dismembering of the body of a deceased animal or plant to study its anatomical structure.

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Doggerel

Doggerel, or doggrel, is poetry that is irregular in rhythm and in rhyme, often deliberately for burlesque or comic effect.

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Dundee

Dundee (Dundee; Dùn Dè or Dùn Dèagh) is the fourth-largest city in Scotland.

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Edith Evans

Dame Edith Mary Evans, (8 February 1888 – 14 October 1976) was an English actress.

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Firth of Tay

The Firth of Tay (Linne Tatha) is a firth on the east coast of Scotland, into which empties the River Tay (Scotland's largest river in terms of flow).

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Gerard Hoffnung

Gerard Hoffnung (22 March 192528 September 1959) was an artist and musician, best known for his humorous works.

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Hoi polloi

Hoi polloi is an expression from Greek that means "the many" or, in the strictest sense, "the people".

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Hugh MacDiarmid

Christopher Murray Grieve (11 August 1892 – 9 September 1978), best known by his pen name Hugh MacDiarmid, was a Scottish poet, journalist, essayist and political figure.

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Humpback whale

The humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) is a species of baleen whale.

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Jaakko Mäntyjärvi

Jaakko Mäntyjärvi is a Finnish composer of classical music, and a professional translator.

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John Struthers (anatomist)

Sir John Struthers MD FRCSE FRSE (–) was the first Regius Professor of Anatomy at the University of Aberdeen.

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Mátyás Seiber

Mátyás György Seiber (sometimes given as Matthis Seyber; 4 May 190524 September 1960) was a Hungarian-born British composer who lived and worked in the United Kingdom from 1935 onwards.

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Princeton Glee Club

The Princeton University Glee Club is the oldest and most prestigious choir at Princeton University, composed of approximately 100 mixed voices.

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Rhyme scheme

A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song.

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Scottish Medical Journal

The Scottish Medical Journal is a general medical journal, which publishes original research in all branches of medicine, review articles, history of medicine articles, and clinical memoranda.

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Stanza

In poetry, a stanza (from Italian stanza) is a group of lines within a poem, usually set off from others by a blank line or indentation.

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Tay Whale

The Tay Whale, known locally as the Monster, was a humpback whale that swam into the Firth of Tay of eastern Scotland in 1883. The Famous Tay Whale and Tay Whale are 1880s in Dundee, history of the North Sea and whaling in Scotland.

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The McManus

The McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery and Museum is a Gothic Revival-style building, located in the centre of Dundee, Scotland.

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University of Toronto

The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park.

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