Public speaker

In “A Noiseless Patient Spider”, the speaker watches a spider, which is on a small rock jutting from the ground. The spider begins to spin its web so it can explore the world around it and build its home. It does this repeatedly and effortlessly until the finish. The speaker, then, makes comparisons between the spider and his soul—how, like the spider, his soul is “surrounded” and “detached”. In this poem, the themes—the quest for enlightenment, the courage to travel alone, and perseverance—and…

“The most important thing is to enjoy your life, to be happy, is all that matters.” Audrey Hepburn said this, and this quote really reminds me of the poem “Ground Swell” because it talks about how you need to be happy. “Ground Swell” conveys the message that the author is not happy about his life and then he realizes that he should be happy, because that matters. The author of “Ground Swell,” Mark Jarman, wrote this poem to write about his vividest life. Although he describes his life as…

who is capable of bending reality, while also revealing the speaker’s belief that simple, trivial tasks can be a liberating break from their mundane lives. To begin, the speaker describes and exaggerates the effect the juggling has on the audience by saying “To shake our gravity up” (Wilbur 7). Through this phrase, the speaker is implying that the juggler appears to have immense power to be able to shake the audience. This reveals just how entertaining the juggler can be as he can easily…

” the speaker addresses the subject of desire through a series of poetic devices. The speaker believes that desire leads to foolishness. But if one desires to eliminate desire, then that desire is virtuous, not foolish. Sidney utilizes figurative language, repetition and anaphora throughout the poem to express his complex thoughts on desire. At the start of the poem, Sidney uses the visual metaphors to describe his view of what desire is. The first line of the poem depicts how the speaker…

“Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.” ~Patrick Rothfuss (http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/power-of-words) Patrick Rothfuss is a young author who spoke the quote above during the struggle of writing one of his first books because he didn’t understand that the significance of words change his story altogether. When he grasps what words are capable of, he is…

a child who reminisces about his or her father’s life. The speaker thinks back on his or her father’s work, his hobbies, and his education in this poignant tribute. With the author’s use of metaphors, similes, and alliteration, the poem emerges as a cautionary tale to show the impact of industrialization. With an extensive use of metaphors, Wagoner emphasizes the environment the father works in each day. To begin with, the speaker describes his father’s workplace as an “open hearth” (line…

realizes the love that the father bestowed upon him, but too light, still the lines of the poem depicts the appreciation and admiration that the child The speaker in the poem describes the personality of…

KiKi Petrosino’s Fort Red Border speaks volumes as both a creative outlook on the imagined relationship between the speaker, an Italian African-American and her beloved Robert Redford, an iconic American actor. With her unique perspective on the world in which she lives, Kiki takes her readers on a fantasy between the natural and unnatural, and the real and unreal; questioning the validity of everyday life. Fort Red Border also explores the ideologies behind class, ethnicity, and inheritance,…

literally. Every body part has a room to correlate to. Throughout Savannah Brown’s “real estate,” the speaker continuously describes herself by comparing herself to a home. The speaker begins the poem describing the type of home she is. She says, “i am my own / i have built myself a one bedroom / single bed home in my bones” (1-3). Clearly, a one bedroom, single bed home means that it is only her, the speaker, who is in control, therefore she only needs one bedroom and a single bed. Point in…

contrasts with the images used in the final two lines of the first stanza. The speaker states the ground was “consecrated” by the juices of the blackberries. They were made holy and sacred by the same juices which made the speaker a criminal. This is a contradiction that persists throughout every stanza of the entire poem. Purity and innocence are conflated with shame and guilt in order to portray the complex emotions that the speaker feels about his situation as an African American boy – a…