Speaker for the Dead

taking a toll on him, but still he woke up early to make sure the house was warm for him and his children, yet no one ever showed his appreciation. The speaker is scared of his father’s anger issues, he writes, “fearing the chronic angers of that house,” (Line 9). This helps us understand why the speaker thought his father did not love him…

The speaker states that good men cry when their time is coming to an end. Good men are concerned with the idea of having done good things that are satisfactory. A green bay is dirty, and dark thus the speaker gives a sense of resentment with line 7-8,”last wave by, crying how bright their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay.” Thomas suggests that…

attempt to remain stable, but eventually fails to endure his inner feelings as “[he] turn[s] this way” (8-9) and retreats as “the stone lets [him] go” (9), representing the relief the speaker experiences when not looking at the “black mirror” (29). Gradually, as he reenters “the Vietnam Veterans Memorial” (11), the speaker incorporates…

Kurtz from the novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. With the line “Mistah Kurtz- he dead,” Eliot epitomizes disillusionment in the case of imperialism’s dark reality (1). Specifically in the novel, Kurtz, an ivory trader, goes to Africa with noble intentions of bringing civilization to the Congo; however, his motives quickly turn nefarious…

saved. But being that he is one-third of the body of the trinity, he was aware of his mission and the whole process he would go through in death so he was prepared to die; mere humans do not get that privilege. In A Dying Tiger – moaned for Drink the speaker explains her journey to try to save the dying tiger by bringing him water but the tiger died upon reaching him with the water: “bore in [her] hand” (4). “His last sight was ‘Of Water—and of me-’ and she is haunted by his unfulfilled longing”…

slumber and my waking,” the speaker points out that she’s been attempting to keep her mother’s spirit in this little pocket of darkness, but so far, the spirt has resisted. The “still, trying” emphasizes the narrator’s determination to reach her goal. Without putting the words “still, trying” as an interjection, as seen in the first part of the poem, the line reads “the Erebus I keep you in, and still trying/ not to let go.” This, in turn, gives a sense that the speaker has successfully trapped…

Life, death, and reincarnation are the recurring theme of the most notable poem “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” by Emily Dickinson. Throughout the poem Dickinson traces her descent sanity into madness which has made the poem terrifying for both the speaker and the reader. At the beginning of the poem, Dickinson has express her feeling of grief and pain through the use of an extended metaphor, “felt a funeral in the brain” and in rest of the poem, she lives a life, passes away, and reborn again…

of a higher power controlling what is happening, and can also create an argument to believe things are just a coincidence Paraphrase The speaker, who is talking to his audience, and speaking in third person, finds a plump white spider on a flower ready to eat a white moth. The moth is like a rigid satin sheet of cloth, dead, killed by the spider. They are sitting on a white flower, called a heal-all, which is said to have healing powers. The three are surrounded by darkness…

opinion; therefore, just because he or she satisfies a person, does not mean the others agree with them too. For example, in “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell, the speaker ponders whether he should kill the elephant to please the people. Whether he shoots it or not, not everyone would be pleased with his decision.In addition, the speaker of “Shooting an Elephant” is a sub-divisional police officer and a lot of people hate him, thus leading him wanting to please the people by shooting the…

The speaker introduces the title character in the third line, calling her a ‘maiden.’…