Public speaker

“Imagine the Angels of Bread” is a poem where the speaker lists the multiple injustices in the world and levels it out so that those suffering can have either justice or those committing the injustices are punished. In the poem’s multiple directions to “imagine,” Martin Espada presents a call to arms to the reader, encouraging them to imagine the wrongdoings and to hopefully act upon them. By getting the readers to imagine such injustice and by having hope that one day the wrongs will be righted…

experiences; we could assume that the speaker of the poem is actually her. The speaker is reminiscing on many of the things that she has been in the past, for example, a witch and a caretaker. The poem seems to highlight the speaker’s personal experiences and attitudes, which gives the poem a significant and friendly tone. The readers do not know much about the speaker except that she is…

of the poem shifts from hopeless to nearly nihilistic, as the final image is of the speaker watching love and fame leave him and become nothing. Part of this rejection in meaning stems from the way Keats presents death in this specific poem. How the speaker feels about death in “When I have Fears” differs greatly from, “Ode to a Nightingale.” Instead of the speaker being “half in love with easeful Death” the speaker resents death as it means the end of his sizable ambitions. However, while there…

Painted around 1920 by German expressionist Martin Zeller, The Orator captures the fleeting moment in which the titular speaker basks in the climax of his great and powerful message. While he stands just to the left of center, his body takes up the entire length of the picture and covers the span of the entire left side. With his arms and legs spread wide on a raised orange-brown platform, he throws back his head toward to sky to summon a great miracle, message, or magic. Or perhaps he himself…

discoveries: her love for and confidence in reading poetry. The poem begins with the speaker stumbling upon the book, which she says surprised her. The speaker goes in depth to describe the book, noting its “swans gliding on a blueback lake… posed on a placid lake, your name blurred underwater sinking to the bottom.” The use of imagery here is employed to demonstrate how quickly the speaker’s…

“we”. This signifies the speaker’s belief in a bigger world power. Him (the speaker) and this higher power are enveloped by the term “we”. The speaker goes on to describe his surroundings, “The view was all in lines/ Straight up and down of tall slim trees/ Too much alike to mark or name a place by/ So as to say for certain I was here/ Or…

Death’s Constant Reminder This Way to The Gas Ladies, and Gentleman, by Tadeusz Borowski, takes place in a Jewish centration camp, where prisoners partook in unloading trains of people who are sent to the gas chambers to be killed. Throughout the story, the author depicts the reoccurring theme of death. The presence of an unbearable heat, the lack of water and the narrator’s encounters in the camp all portray the theme of death. One of the most potent symbols in the story is the heat. Within…

“Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word. The groups change more swiftly, swell with new arrivals, dissolve and form in the same breath; already there are wanderers, confident girls who weave here and there among the stouter and more stable, become for a sharp, joyous moment the centre of a group, and then, excited with triumph, glide on through the sea-change of faces” (41) The connotation of alcohol flowing thorough the party from words such…

the poem “The Bachelor Watches ‘The Bachelor,’” the poet Jacob Saenz uses unparalleled imagery and alternating tones to push the point that the speaker is jealous of “The Bachelor”, and that he wants his life to have purpose like the bachelor’s. He wants to change his life, and give it purpose and he sees finding love as giving his life purpose. The speaker is himself a bachelor, implying that he is single or, in other words, all alone. He watches ABC’s “The Bachelor” every night it airs on his…

In this selection from a conversation between Dmitri and Pyotr Ilyich, the dominant speaker, Dmitri, expressed complex and contradictory emotions than speak to his conflicted state of mind. In the first portion of his speech, the rapid pace of topic change, the jumpy, rushed tone, and sheer abundance of exclamation marks reflect Dmitri’s excited yet somewhat muddled state of mind. This reveals that the nonchalant exclamation “The pistols are nonsense too! Drink and stop imagining things,” is not…