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who is capable of bending reality, while also revealing the speaker’s belief that simple, trivial tasks can be a liberating break from their mundane lives. To begin, the speaker describes and exaggerates the effect the juggling has on the audience by saying “To shake our gravity up” (Wilbur 7). Through this phrase, the speaker is implying that the juggler appears to have immense power to be able to shake the audience. This reveals just how entertaining the juggler can be as he can easily…

Is the use of a hand worth the loss of a life? In the poem “Out, Out--” by Robert Frost the speaker tells of a boy who uses a saw to cut stove length sticks of wood for a living. The boy ran his hand into a saw and instead of taking precautions to save his life he demanded that his hand be saved. As a result of these demands the boy not only loses his hand but also dies. Frost uses key imagery, foreshadowing, diction, and irony, to show that in certain circumstances holding onto something can…

in nature and reconnect with his primal self. The setting follows the speaker in pursuit of a bear in the wild during the winter. He is acting as a hunter and his obsession with the bear develops the elaborate overarching metaphor…

In “A Noiseless Patient Spider”, the speaker watches a spider, which is on a small rock jutting from the ground. The spider begins to spin its web so it can explore the world around it and build its home. It does this repeatedly and effortlessly until the finish. The speaker, then, makes comparisons between the spider and his soul—how, like the spider, his soul is “surrounded” and “detached”. In this poem, the themes—the quest for enlightenment, the courage to travel alone, and perseverance—and…

Last week, I attend Grace College chapel. In order further my communication skills I analyzed the audience and speaker at this chapel. Caleb Yoder was speaking. The first thing I analyzed was the demographic factors of the audience. Chapel is made up college students typically from the age seventeen to twenty-four. The school is made up of about sixty-five percent female and thirty-five male. Grace College is a christian school that has its roots in the Grace Brethren denomination; however, the…

Hindus, which translated to “The world is sound”. Julian then goes on to mention a statistic on how everything around us is vibrating. I think this is a good hook in the way it grabs the viewer’s attention and gives a clear explanation on what the speaker is going to talk about. 25. He starts off by saying how listening is an active skill and that how hearing is a passive skill. So basically, you hear all the time, even when you are sleeping, and you only listen when you actively want to e.g.…

” the speaker addresses the subject of desire through a series of poetic devices. The speaker believes that desire leads to foolishness. But if one desires to eliminate desire, then that desire is virtuous, not foolish. Sidney utilizes figurative language, repetition and anaphora throughout the poem to express his complex thoughts on desire. At the start of the poem, Sidney uses the visual metaphors to describe his view of what desire is. The first line of the poem depicts how the speaker…

Noiseless Patient Spider,” Walt Whitman describes a spider working on its web. The spider is on the most precise and craftiest part of laying down the first line. The spider is trying to get the little strings it’s shooting out to stick to something. The speaker turns a simple, carefully chosen image into a metaphor for the human soul. He fills the poem with his curiosity, excitement, and love for the world. The image of the patient and diligent spider drives the poem. In line 1, we are given…

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…

or physical connection to the speaker. Donne for the most part spends the greater part of the ballad participating in a contention to charm her yet from time to time with a resolution. In his later verse, the woman tended to is a perfect lady who cherishes the speaker with a profound love mixed together with physical energy. In these cases, we for the most part can take his own significant other as the model for the darling. The poet himself: The writer or speaker of Donne's verse is…