Speaker recognition

In "words are birds" Francisco X. Alarcón uses many metaphors comparing words to birds to suggest that words, although many and vastly different, all fall under one category and unite us all. The poem begins by giving the reader an overview of how words and birds are related: "words / are birds / that arrive / with books / and spring" (1-5). The correlation between words and books is obvious, as they are often put together, but the author is comparing words to spring as well to show that we use…

This poem describes how when he goes to sleep, the speaker begins a “war” and he also begins to have nightmares. All “visions of light” begin to disappear, this could be all the things that make him feel safe begin to go away when he goes to sleep. He also states that he is “shribling with fear” meaning that these nightmares that he has are truly terrifying. He continues to state that no one will hear him scream meaning no one will come help him. He also says that god is near but “the devil is…

In his poem, “Richard Cory” Edwin uses irony to show how we are to a man like him. Maintaining the idea that this man had everything going for him and was a well to do man. From the outside, the men working saw this man everyday, gazing at what a man should look like. Charles Burkhart gives criticism that show his contrast and his own ideas and claims about the man. In Richard Cory, author’s creates irony by using imagery, diction, and contrast to show the true description of the man and…

"I, I, I received blows on my face and my body! All of those deaths! The long procession to the cemetery! Dad! And mom! And the terrible spectacle of Margaret! I was so swollen that could not lay her in the coffin! we had to burn it as if it were trash! you just came back in time for the funeral. And funerals are beautiful compared to the deaths. they are silent, but deaths are not always so. sometimes your breathing is hoarse, sometimes tartajosa, sometimes they shout to one: Do not let me go…

Birdbath” by Gail Kredenser Mack, a speaker, presumably a woman is watching and observing a cardinal that is in a birdbath. However, beyond the literal cardinal watching, is a speaker who has significantly changed her view on life, especially towards her job, and has realized how another person, in the case a cardinal, has affected her, all because of something simple such as a cardinal playing in a birdbath. Mack employs diction and imagery to convey how the speaker taking a respite from her…

others stand up for one’s personal interest, one must also defend others. Ogden’s poem was written in 1951, in response to a quote by Martin Niemoller, “First they came… No one left to speak out for me.” To help aid his ideal, Ogden creates a nameless speaker who is focused on self-preservation at the expense of other’s, which leads to his ultimate demise. To foreshadow the speaker’s willingness to turn a blind eye…

natural which is infinite” (1095) the voice goes on to talk of its spiritual awakening, and how he is experiencing life almost as a new person expressed in the line “i who have died am alive again today” (1095), the whole poem is a reflection of the speakers…

loud. The poem had a strong hook as I imagined the student “with blue hair and a tongued stud…” (1). I automatically assumed the speaker was a rebellious teenager who is privileged. I chuckled slightly when the author mentioned the words “full of shit” (5). I am not used to poets expressing themselves with swear words. I raised my eyebrows curiously when the speaker mentioned his father gushed “not blood but money…” (14). In addition, I rested my neck on my left hand to carefully understand…

Loneliness slowly attacks the speaker at the end of stanza six which the speaker contrasts a bright and songless day which may represent optimism, but the difficulty to move on. Atwood uses a lot of words that are related to fire. As suggested in the previous paragraphs, the fire might be a destructive force…

At the beginning of the poem “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden, the speaker introduces cold and uncomfortable images to relay the tone of the poem: Regret for not respecting his father. Hayden uses “blueback cold” in the second line, presenting a tone of sadness and loneliness throughout the house that the speaker and his family like in. The word “blueblack” is such an uncommon word that it carries an extremely negative feeling, exemplifying the cold feeling of distance throughout the…