Speaker for the Dead

The Raven Symbolism “The Raven” is a narrative poem written by Edgar Allan Poe. Many authors have used talking birds and ravens in their writing, but used in Poe uses the raven to represent a sad longing for his dead wife or lover with the emotions of loneliness, sadness, fear,madness, and death. “The Raven” was inspired by “A Tale of the Riots Eighty” by Charles Dickens. Throughout the poem, the narrator looks for some answers about seeing his wife, Lenore again in the afterlife as he stares…

end of the poem the speaker is the killer. Porphyria’s Lover is a dramatic monologue; the speaker is expressing emotion about his uninvited lover. It’s a dark stormy night and Porphyria enters in the speaker home. Porphyria shut the door to the speaker home and warms his home. Then she grabs the speaker attention by seducing him; she let her damp hair falls on her shoulder and she undress herself. She lets her body speak for her and brings the speaker body towards her. The speaker tried to…

feeling of a doctor extracting a dead fetus from a womb? Or, forgetting that a one-night fling, turned into getting pregnant unintentionally? It might not have been just a one time thing, it could possibly revolve around multiple attempts to finally carry a child, however, when it finally happened, no one was ready for it. Was it a mistake, forced, or a choice? Whoever is speaking, speaks like a mother with experience, however, there is no indication that this speaker ever held a child. Yet,…

catches my attention and so I work through the north, south, east, and west metaphor. He compares compass points to his lover, and one often uses a compass when searching for a specific location or when lost. This leads to two possibilities. Either the speaker was lost and relying on his lover to provide him with a sense of direction or he was using his lover to reach a destination. The destination itself could be a metaphor depending on personal experiences. It could be a spiritual quest, it…

The speaker in her poem has somewhat of a comforting journey to eternal life, which is also the reason why this poem by Dickinson was more powerful to me. As for in “I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died”, Dickinson portrays the speaker’s last couple of minutes before death as more of an uneasy and eerie feel and when the speaker dies, it is the end with no talk about the life after death. “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” is narrated by a woman who in the final stanza we learn has been dead for…

through a lens that reveals the underlying queer aspects of it. Audre Lorde’s “Beams” is a poem that already subtly delivers its meaning but when read from a queer theory point of view, it is even clearer to see the internal struggle faced by the speaker. A decision of maternity versus sexuality is discussed through vivid descriptions of places, people and memories and the poem demonstrates a common struggle for many humans, not only in its time but also in present day. As the poem opens,…

Also it in the poem the speaker planned on not crying but end up getting emotional because the speaker himself knew that it would have been a difficult time for him when he planned on visiting the wall, that is why he kept on stating that he is not going to cry. When the speaker saw the name of the fallen soldiers on the wall he also felt as if he was dead with them given the reason why he says that I am stone. Then he reminds himself that…

blackening out whole suns collective thun der (Tornado 1-17) Using a tornado as an image effectively conveys the way the speaker feels in terms of their actions. The form conveys the physicality of the tornado, while the words depict what is essential in describing the nature of tornados, it conveys the fear and anxiety associated with tornados, while conveying the ideas that the speaker wishes to relay to the reader. The shorter…

of separation between lovers is explored by means of nature, metaphysical conceits, and complex metaphors. Additionally, the form of either of these respective works seems to mimic the sense of certainty or complacency of the speakers. With that said, although the speakers love in both poems seems readily accessible, they deal with the separation from their beloved in contrasting ways. Donne’s speaker’s love is intensified by means of the separation with his beloved, seeing as their love…

as Dickinson ended the lines—which should rhyme—with the words “down” (18) and “then” (20). By not rhyming lines in these stanzas, Dickinson places the dazed and overwhelmed feeling described by the speaker inside the mind of the audience. This confusion is explained in the first stanza until the speaker felt “That Sense was breaking through” (4). Rhyme schemes tend to give poems a structure and make them seem more organized, which is exactly what occurs when Dickinson puts a rhyme scheme in…