The Speaker

took those fun things away from him. The speaker of the poem is a man, looking back on his youthful life, remembering all the details he did not care about when he was a child. The setting of this poem is on a farm with a beautiful countryside. Stanza one talks about how the speaker, a boy, who is young and carefree at one point and describes all of these beautiful things that could relate to happiness. Line one explains to the audience that the speaker was a young and carefree boy. Line two…

Latin phrase for “Seize the day”. Both speakers use the ideals of carpe diem to persuade the auditor to live in the moment. They do this by saying that the auditor is young and beautiful and that they are meant to be. Although both speakers try their best to persuade the auditor to have sex with them, the speaker in “To his coy mistress” impresses the auditor the best. In “To his coy mistress”, Marvell says “Now therefore, while the youthful hue” (33), the speaker in the poem is trying to talk…

“But the Raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only that one word… nevermore.” (55,60) In the poem “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe, the speaker is mourning the loss of his dearly beloved wife Lenore whom he adored. “Sainted maiden whom the angels named Lenore… rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore” (94,95). He is solemnly sitting in his dreary chambers overcome with loss, when a raven appears, flies into his chambers, and lands above his chamber door. He begins to ask the…

eliminate his adversaries and other revisionists. Li-Young Lee infuses this past by including himself as the speaker who narrates his childhood. While the speaker recalls his childhood with images of fear, oppression, and pain, he also remembers it as a period of hope and innocence. The first stanza focuses on the theme of fear. Beginning and ending with an ominous series of apostrophes, the speaker provides a seemingly negative view…

quarter.The first thing I learned was, if you fidget with something the speaker will get distracted, The second thing I learned was, if the speaker is messing with the podium then the listeners will probably get distracted, The last thing I learned was, the first word is the hardest part of the speech. Point one, if you fidget with something the speaker will get distracted. If you're fidgeting with something, then the speaker will probably look at you and get distracted. If you are messing…

are several future events that the author foreshadows from the story Beowulf. When he says “A slave has stolen a jeweled chalice and so provoked a dragon; yet more than the threat of retribution is at stake” (The Lament of the Last Survivor).The speaker is alluding to the same dragon that later kills Beowulf. In this quote the author also discusses himself as being a man, who is the last of an ancient race of people committing the treasures that…

A fork in the road lies ahead of the speaker as he contemplates on which one is the better path. Incapable to see what lies ahead, he opts for the better looking and less worn out one, but soon contradict himself saying that both ways look equally fair. Thinking about one road, he takes the other telling himself that one-day he will return to try again, although it is very unlikely. The speaker anticipates his future with a sigh saying that he took the one less travelled by road making all the…

Flea’ ‘The Flea’ is a satirical love poem by medieval poet John Donne. In the poem, the speaker uses the flea as an example in attempts to persuade his lover into having intercourse with him. While the poem is humorous and satirical in nature, the poem is also one that is both erotic and uses some important literary devices and reflects upon the experience of love and romance in medieval Europe. The speaker in his attempts to persuade his lover to have pre-marital sex with him, sees a flea that…

Charlemagne once said, “To have another language is to have a second soul” (BrainyQuote). As a native Spanish speaker, I find this statement to be true since I think about objects different than an English native speaker would. For example, when thinking about objects Spanish speakers tend to associate objects with genders while English speakers do not. The topic of language and how people think has been studied by a few Linguists, Psychologists, and Neuroscientists. Research and studies have…

scenic image of the world around the speaker during the time of his solitude. During his time alone, the speaker reflects about his childhood and the aspiration he has for the infant child sleeping in the cottage. The importance of solitude demonstrated in “Frost at Midnight” by the feelings the speaker has, the time intervals from present to past, and the speaker’s self-reflection during his time alone. All these specific purposes are to show how the speaker moves from being uncomfortable with…