Speaker for the Dead

detail within their stories. There is so much detail and emotion in both stories that they are similar in that characteristic. The Mariner talks about his whole experience on his ship with his crew members and does not leave a single detail out. The speaker in the Kubla Khan does the exact same thing he goes into detail when talking abou the palace of the Mongol Emperor calling it a “pleasure dome” Both stories not only go into detail but have the same emotion within their stories. In both poems…

life. The first two stanzas introduce to us the idea of death and how the speaker feels he is surrounded by it. “And every day/ Things that were in my memory fade and die” (5-6). This is an example that Pinsky uses to depict a softer picture of death. He is alluding to the fact that death is not always literal, but rather entities die off everyday without us being aware that it is occurring. The speaker also talks about two dogs that have passed away. This shows that although some…

and The Quiet American, there are similarities and differences detectable in the stories. The principle closeness we have watched is that both stories catch the time of history. Notwithstanding, Greene’s stories also utilizes their own different speakers and visualizing different imagery that makes a totally unique perception of Greene ability to be innovative in his own way. The stories written by Greene all had mysterious history themes. In 1955, The Quiet American and The Third Man…

In the Peter Weir film, Dead Poet’s Society, many characters are exposed to the idea and benefits of living according to their own desires, rather than other peoples. After this exposure, character’s are forced to choose which path to ultimately embark on. Robert Frost’s renowned poem, The Road Not Taken, explores similar situations and themes as well. The poem is so spectacular because of the fact that the message relates to almost anyone, and therefore the speaker is very versatile. While many…

Why So Much Metaphor? W.H Auden’s speaker in “Stop all the Clocks” sets out to deliver a message of sorrow by means of excessive use of metaphor. Why is it that the speaker chooses not to use another literary device such as simile? The continual use of metaphor sets out to serve the function of blurring the lines of target and source, and to allow the reader to understand the speaker’s feelings in “Stop All the Clocks” doing which simile cannot. Firstly the individual being mourned is the main…

They are being sarcastic because they offer to make fun of the speaker. I can imagine a sassy type of character saying this. In Romeo and Juliet, a messenger named Friar Laurence was sent to inform Romeo about Juliet’s plan to fake poison herself. However, the message was failed to be delivered and Romeo never knew that…

a setting for the piece. The speaker makes it very clear that the poem takes place where the sun shines all day and all night, where men work very hard in search of gold. In this first stanza, the speaker addressing that this is a place where very strange things happen, and that he had to cremate a man named Sam McGee. The first stanza of this poem really gets the reader interested in the piece. The poem takes place in the Yukon during the gold rush. The speaker using context clues…

views rhetoric as effective and containing little t-truth, meaning the truth has multiple versions drawn from what we see, hear, and feel daily. Learning what he knows from Plato, rhetoric consists of only one correct answer and is used to educate. Speakers that have the natural ability to speak and teach by giving instructions use rhetoric properly according to Isocrates. Rhetoric is a valuable life skill used to make laws and in invent art and in today’s society it is used mostly to make…

away from me, to shut her up in a sepulchre” (Poe 1). Annabel Lee was taken away by her upper-class family members and that the family and death were trying to tear their love apart, by shutting her up in a sepulchre or a tomb. She died leaving the speaker alone and grieving because he wasn't able to be with her before and after her death and he couldn't let go his love for her. The narrator in the poem still cannot accept the death of Annabel Lee and he can’t spend one moment without thinking…

The speaker was mentally ill, which is why he’s not guilty of murdering his lover. After realizing that Porphyria worships him, the speaker wants to stay with her, but the feeling of insecurity makes him commit this act. Since the speaker was mentally ill, it defeats the purpose of him actually murdering her, so he is not guilty.…