The Speaker

In the poem “The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry, the speaker is affected by nature in a positive, inspiring way. The speaker is very anxious about his future and what the future will be for his children, so he goes down to a small lake. It is here where he relaxes, and admires the beauty of nature. This is shown by the movement and enjambment that is used in this poem. At first, the speaker is very worried, as “despair for the world grow[ing] in me” (2). His concern is shown, as for the…

Dylan Thomas’s 1951 poem “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” explores the inevitable mortality that plagues mankind. Throughout the villanelle structure, the speaker leads the reader through his pleas of fighting against “that good night,” while the repeated refrains in alternating stanzas help to reinforce the ideas of not going “gentle” and “raging against” the dying light, instituting the idea that death is not something to succumb to. Not only does the poem explore how to face the…

the poem we are already situated in media res; we sense already immersed in the middle of an important event that is taking place between the speaker of the poem and the wind. We can sense that the speaker of the Ode has an unusual fixation on the wind, and we are intrigued to discover the reasons why this fixation for the wind is so meaningful for the speaker. Without realizing it, we have become part of this experience because we are actively processing in our minds, by imagining, what is…

divided into five three-line stanzas and a sixth stanza with four lines which is written in a very specific form “the villanelle” and depicts a speaker who is really emotional about his father. One of the things that concerns him most is that his father should embrace life to the very end although he knows that death is something no one can avoid. The speaker on the other hand argues for the stillness that death provides, which this poem tries to show by imploring resistance in the face of…

The poem “I will put Chaos into fourteen lines” by Edna St. Vincent Millay portrays the speaker as someone who is trying to make order out of chaos in her life by effectively using personification, an assertive tone, and caesura to make her point. The speaker uses capitalization when referring to Chaos as if he is a human being that she knows but seems to be upset with or frustrated at. She wants to put him into “fourteen lines and keep him there” (lines 1,2) as if she believes he is the cause…

safe, keep the speakers safe, and always give respect towards the speaker even if the topic is negative.…

The reader is able to infer from the word “again” that this act has happened before. The speaker, which in this case is the spectator of this tragic event, implies the hypocrisy of the woman beating the child. The woman claims that she is right and the boy is wrong, yet she is beating the young boy, which is a wrongful act. The second stanza uses an implicit metaphor to describe the boy and the woman. The speaker says, “Wildly he crashes through elephant ears, pleads in dusty zinnias,while she…

Canyon. In Robert Frost’s poem, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, “Stopping by Woods” is a gratuitous action, a grace note, and imaginative possibility” (Ingebretsen 2). Nature can certainly be described as the “siren of the sea”, alluring the speaker to become corrupted by nature’s mysterious trait. Just as the siren lures ships to her rocky coast to bring about their untimely demise, nature captures mankind’s essence to potentially bring…

mentally or emotionally. In Sherman Alexie’s “Capital Punishment,” the speaker spends his or her time going through the motions of their job while their mind is elsewhere, namely, on a prisoner with an imminent death sentence. It cannot be assumed that the speaker is the poet, because there is a lack of sufficient evidence to account for this claim; however, certain facts may lead readers to presume that it is the case. The speaker in “Capital Punishment” is a cook at a jail in which the death…

It is important to focus your attention on the speaker and the topic because if you don’t, you will allow yourself to become distracted. In active listening, focusing on the speaker and topic will help improve communication in the organization. I would avoid any disturbances when focusing on the speaker and topic whether it’s becoming distracted by my own thoughts, another listener, or from any technical devices such as phones and other gadgets. It’s important to set aside your own…