Speaker for the Dead

In the first four lines of the first stanza, the speaker is excited that they accomplished their missions through hard “weather’d” and wants to celebrate with his Capitan. “O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;” () We assumed that the “ Capitan” is a metaphor for Lincoln because, a Captain is a leader and the poem was written after the assassination. “The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,”() Whitman great imagery details makes us to connect with the glory, cheer…

Kumin, both speakers consider the death of animals, while their relationships with the animals have both similarities and differences. The speaker in "Traveling" has a more humane view on the animals he encounters, compared to the antipathetic, self-centered view in "Woodchucks." Despite this difference, their relationships with animals are similar in that both speakers use modern technology to dominate nature and animals, and their relationships both resolve as the degraded speakers eliminate…

The poem “O Captain! My Captain!” by Walt Whitman is about a captain that is lying dead on the floor of the ship. The ship is returning home while the people on the shore are celebrating the return. The speaker is a shipmate and cannot celebrate the return of the trip because he is grieving the loss of his captain. Whitman wrote this poem after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln shortly after the Civil War. The poem consists of many metaphors, imagery, figurative and literal language,…

Dhanrajh 1 Cheeranjiva Dhanrajh Speech 160 Ms. Adi Mid Term Poetry Midterm Fall 2016 In the poem, In a Disused Graveyard by Robert Frost, the speaker is unknown. This is because the poet does not give any clues whatsoever about who the poet is. Also, there is not any specific occasion happening here. You can tell this because the persona is portraying a feeling rather than describing a specific occasion. The time of the poem is not stated, rendering it not important to the poem. The…

In the first stanza, death is characterized as a person and has stopped to pick up the speaker in a carriage. “ the carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.” The speaker is dying but is not afraid of death as she thinks he is kind, taking her to the afterlife. The speaker believes that after death there is an afterlife where she will live eternally. Many believe immortality is real and is achieved after…

made by the speaker of the poem. The speaker asks for the forgiveness of abstract items and items that are incapable of understanding or speaking back to the speaker. “Understanding Forgiveness”, the informational text published by PBS, psychologist Sandra Lyubomirsky differentiates forgiveness and justice.…

a commentary on death, that is somewhat flustered into a morality poem. The poems morality contemplation is not an austere good or evil, but a just-unjust analysis of social institutions. Within the first lines, we are shown a gentleman who is not ‘dead’ until he is arranged for death. Demonstrating that the funeral as a conventionality eclipses the reality of life and convolutes man into a God assessing when one passes. One’s body is in limbo as it bathed and prepared, therefore casting doubt…

Collins’ unique writing style helps his poems become more relatable to most readers. Like many modern poets, Collins writes in free verse, eliminating formal structure and allowing creativity to blend in to every line. In his poems “Budapest”, and “The Dead”, Collins uses various poetic devices to create meaning for the reader. YouTube animators Julian Grey and Juan Delcan take creative liberties in their visual representations of these two poems. The poetic devices used in Collins’ writings and…

making its presence stronger in the forest. The speaker finds himself in a dying forest and notes that the “Frost was spectre-grey,” (2). Spectre connotes an eerie presence of a ghost. By defining it as a phantom, “Frost” is given a human characteristic that appears at the end of a life. Since the winter frost covers the landscape, Hardy is alluding to the fact that death is slowly descending upon the forest. As the speaker surveys the landscape, the speaker notices “The weakening eye of…

destruction and death. The poem is about a soldier who has recently died on the front line of the war. Although we as readers do not know who the dead soldier is; it appears that the speaker knows him and his background well. The speaker wants to move the soldier’s body into the sun in hopes that the sun will resurrect his dead body. Throughout the poem the speaker ponders nature’s power to create life; personifying the sun as godlike or as an omniscient and all-knowing being. The poem begins…