Speaker recognition

Death’s Constant Reminder This Way to The Gas Ladies, and Gentleman, by Tadeusz Borowski, takes place in a Jewish centration camp, where prisoners partook in unloading trains of people who are sent to the gas chambers to be killed. Throughout the story, the author depicts the reoccurring theme of death. The presence of an unbearable heat, the lack of water and the narrator’s encounters in the camp all portray the theme of death. One of the most potent symbols in the story is the heat. Within…

“Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word. The groups change more swiftly, swell with new arrivals, dissolve and form in the same breath; already there are wanderers, confident girls who weave here and there among the stouter and more stable, become for a sharp, joyous moment the centre of a group, and then, excited with triumph, glide on through the sea-change of faces” (41) The connotation of alcohol flowing thorough the party from words such…

the poem “The Bachelor Watches ‘The Bachelor,’” the poet Jacob Saenz uses unparalleled imagery and alternating tones to push the point that the speaker is jealous of “The Bachelor”, and that he wants his life to have purpose like the bachelor’s. He wants to change his life, and give it purpose and he sees finding love as giving his life purpose. The speaker is himself a bachelor, implying that he is single or, in other words, all alone. He watches ABC’s “The Bachelor” every night it airs on his…

In this selection from a conversation between Dmitri and Pyotr Ilyich, the dominant speaker, Dmitri, expressed complex and contradictory emotions than speak to his conflicted state of mind. In the first portion of his speech, the rapid pace of topic change, the jumpy, rushed tone, and sheer abundance of exclamation marks reflect Dmitri’s excited yet somewhat muddled state of mind. This reveals that the nonchalant exclamation “The pistols are nonsense too! Drink and stop imagining things,” is not…

In the poem “Fog” by Carl Sandburg the theme is life moves faster than you expect. One example in the poem is very small and fast. the poem then ends on “and then moves on.” This looks like it’s showing life is short, and it then moves on. Another example showing the theme of the poem is life moves faster than you expect is it says fog comes on little cats feet. This is showing life is small and a quick just like little cat’s feet and it walking. A final example to support the theme stated above…

speaker's life. The speaker states that before their death, the room was so unbearably silent that the only noise heard was the sound of a fly buzzing, “I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - / The Stillness in the Room / Was like the Stillness in the Air - / Between the Heaves of Storm - /.” The reader can then conclude that the speaker was in a room with loved ones who had cried until they couldn’t anymore, “The Eyes around - had wrung them dry - / And Breaths were gathering firm /.” The speaker…

This is apparent in Humanimal by Bhanu Kapil, in which the speaker’s experience in India focuses on the citizens of India, and their obsession with her ethnicity. At one moment in the collection, the speaker is persistently asked by a police escort, “Are you Indian?... Madam, are you France? Are you American? I think you are born in a different country” (Kapil 18). The question of ethnicity is reiterated several times because people find it important…

In life, the greatest struggles are what motivates people the most. Despite the violence and discrimination that the speakers faced, they were able to find a moment of understanding within their lives. These two poems work together to help describe that no matter the hardships people face, people can still succeed. Within the poem, “I Go Back to May 1937”, the speaker goes back to the time when her parents were in college. She begins by describing what she sees, her father walking out from…

THE RAINES LAW ROOM, 1:30 AM. There is a light rain settling upon the city, Sebastien is absent. “Love’s an idea, not a feeling. Don’t be so foolish, Ralph.” A drunk and miserable Corinthian spouts, a glass sitting loosely in her right and a cigarette clutched tight between her left hand fingers. “We feel some sort of fictitious… admiration, whereas our mind translates this into some over idealized bullshit…” She pauses. “I-I don’t know where I was going with this.” Ralph sighs, shaking his…

There are many things that can make up a person. From their age, nationality, gender, personality, and personal beliefs, everyone is different in some way. In the poem, “The Secretary Chant,” written by Marge Piercy, the speaker is slowly being dehumanized as each of her body parts are referred to common office supplies. In 1970, the time that the poem was written, Marge Piercy was a secretary who worked long shifts and was constantly mistreated for the fact that she had the jo Piercy’s use of…