Speaker

Marge Piercy’s, The Secretary Chant, describes a woman feeling dehumanized by her job to the point where it consumes her and she becomes the lifeless, inanimate objects she works with. Piercy expresses the secretary’s emotions across in a somewhat humorous way using metaphors, onomatopoeia, and repetition. The whole poem is an extended metaphor comparing a secretary to the office supplies surrounding her. Her role as a human is belittled and she is reduced to functionaries, not seeing herself…

The song, “Be My Escape”, by Relient K, uses one main poetic device to convey the story that the speaker is telling: metaphor. Throughout the poem, the speaker illustrates that they are locked inside a house. We are told that they know how to get out, because they know who has the key, however they are afraid of what lies beyond their safe walls out in the world. They initially think that they know what is best for themselves. Eventually they come to the conclusion that they must take the chance…

1. “I heard a Fly buzz”¾ Speaker: the author, Tone: very calm but also serious, Figurative Language: "The Stillness in the Room Was like the Stillness in the Air – ," (2-3) this is a simile and some symbolism being used. "I heard a Fly buzz" by Emily Dickinson, indulges readers by using different forms of figurative language. Also, by making it seem like she is writing this while on her death bed. As Dickinson stated in the poem, "I heard a Fly buzz – when I died –," (1) this can be inferred…

This one is a Metaphysical poetry. It deals with new actuality. By new actuality meaning the new findings in 19th century. This Piece instead of metaphysics deals with actuality, for there are no references and abstractions. The unknown anonymous speaker in the poem is a lover who scrutinizes the very aspect of love. He starts the poem by implying that the love he holds is “rare” and “strange” because it was “begotten by Despair, Upon Impossibility.” He continues by saying that for him only…

of the poem shifts from hopeless to nearly nihilistic, as the final image is of the speaker watching love and fame leave him and become nothing. Part of this rejection in meaning stems from the way Keats presents death in this specific poem. How the speaker feels about death in “When I have Fears” differs greatly from, “Ode to a Nightingale.” Instead of the speaker being “half in love with easeful Death” the speaker resents death as it means the end of his sizable ambitions. However, while there…

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…

experiences; we could assume that the speaker of the poem is actually her. The speaker is reminiscing on many of the things that she has been in the past, for example, a witch and a caretaker. The poem seems to highlight the speaker’s personal experiences and attitudes, which gives the poem a significant and friendly tone. The readers do not know much about the speaker except that she is…

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…

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…

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…