Speaker for the Dead

soldiers during World War I. The rat is another important symbol that represents freedom. The rat is also personified in this poem when it is said to grin as it passes the dead bodies. Irony is another device that is used at the end of the poem when the soldier claims the poppy is safe but he plunked him from the ground so the poppy is dead. The last literary device is a metaphor that says, “Sprawled in the bowels of the earth, the torn fields of France.” The soldier’s bodies are metaphorically…

difference between one human being is from the next. The speaker also connects the people of the past to the people of the present. Whitman then goes on to answer his own question, “Whatever it is, it avails not-distance avails not, and place avails not.” (CBF 56). When Whitman answers his own question he is not sure what the difference is between humans, but he does know that the distance or location has no effect on the closeness of humans. The speaker then goes on to say “Fifty years hence…

speaker’s struggles when attempting suicide. The speaker illustrates her third attempt at suicide by using figurative language to dramatize her poem. She employs the use of metaphors to compare herself to a Nazi prisoner. By describing death as an “art,” the speaker gives the poem a dreary and depressive tone (line 44). This poem describes and identifies the speaker’s fascination with suicide due to oppression. At the beginning of the poem, the speaker confesses that she has done “it” again (1).…

madness and its effects on individuals who are emotionally and mentally weak. The poem depicts the speaker in his room brooding over the loss of “the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore” (Poe 10). As he is brooding, he encounters a raven that is tapping his door. Amused by the raven, he would ask the raven questions only to have it reply a single answer: “Nevermore” (Poe 48). As the speaker continues to ask questions, the questions take a turn for the worse. He starts to think…

In the podcast, Wilson, Princeton, and the purge Woodrow Wilson is a point of the debate at Princeton University and what his legacy should be remembered as. In the first segment of the podcast. A black woman in the Black Justice League:at Princeton University, explains her debate to the school’s President, Chris Eisgruber. She explains her reasoning for the removal of Wilson's name on one of the school's buildings. As well as, the removal of his statue in the dining hall. She talks about how…

hopeful emotion. It fills people with joy and delight, leading their hearts to never-ending laughter. However, in the performed poem "Unrequited Love", Sierra DeMulder sees loving another to be gut-wrenching and mentally agonizing. In the poem, the speaker talks about watching someone her listener loves have feelings for another woman. When the person that she is speaking to first find out that there is another woman, that person tries to act natural. Instead, she ends up getting herself drunk…

The protagonist in Cormac McCarthy's "The Crossing", is accompanied by a hearse and a dead wolf in order to convey that all creatures are united through death. The story has a 3rd person narration where the reader is looking into the story. The speaker looks upon the scene of a man in search of a place to bury the dead wolf. The man cradles the blood covered wolf with a gentleness that is parent like. Men and animal are alike in this novel and the man realizes this as he searches for a place to…

“Home Burial” was written by Robert Frost in 1914. This poem is a tremendously, emotionally charged narrative which is centered around a couple arguing about their dead child. At the start od the poem, the woman barely speaks to the man at all. When she decides to talk, he hardly listens to what she says. The wife, Amy, is clearly grieving over the loss of her baby. Her husband doesn't seem to care about his child’s death, which is why there is conflict between him and his wife. They are…

throughout the planet, is the information they require their speakers to provide whenever describing something. For example, in the English language, there are many nouns to describe humans that do not differentiate between male and female, like friend. However, in Spanish, if one wants to refer to someone they consider a friend, it is necessary to use either the masculine or feminine form. The information a language requires its speakers to include is described as evidentiality and there are…

The speaker recalls a time when he shot a man at war and realized if they would have met in a bar “we should sat us down to wet right many a nipperkin”. This is a topic that many readers do not see in poetry. The scathing poetic critique of war is a very revealing poem to the many readers. The story is a meaningful poem suggesting we should not judge a book by its cover and fight against one another before knowing that person. The speaker can be seen as a retired veratrin who is having…