The Speaker

Sidewalk Ends” and “Escaping Reality” were composed four decades apart. They involve a speaker who is anticipating his escape from reality. They also involve a speaker’s search for a resolution through symbolism. In addition, they focus on a single theme which is despite your life responsibilities; you should use your imagination to escape when times get difficult. Furthermore, they feature the thoughts of a speaker who refers to himself in the first person perspective. The two poems emphasize a…

heard a Fly buzz- when i died-” you can see the poem focuses on the precious last seconds before death. This poem has four stanzas; each of these consists of these techniques: unusual style of writing, the poet creates images, and definite speaker. The speaker of the poem explains that even though irrelevant, the mind can focus on the strangest things. Dickinson has a more unusual style of writing; throughout many of her works you will notice the unusual capitalization, or even punctuation.…

utterly devastated. In the short story, “Araby,” the speaker comes to the realization that his first love was based on vanity and displays this revelation to the reader by using a bleak and disappointed tone. Throughout the story, “Araby,” the speaker looks back on his childhood crush and discovers, at the end, that his infatuation was based on vanity. As the speaker describes his feelings for Mangan’s sister, readers are given a glimpse…

in the summertime or that during the winter which is being referred to—no matter the timeframe, the physical world enchants the speaker. The audience knows that legitimate alcohol isn’t inebriating the speaker because he claims that even “the Frankfort Berries/[cannot] Yield such … Alcohol” (Dickinson 84). Instead of wasting their time at local inns or bars, the speaker indulges in the “molten Blue” color of the sky; they waste their days basking in the sky, getting drunk off the favors of…

madness and its effects on individuals who are emotionally and mentally weak. The poem depicts the speaker in his room brooding over the loss of “the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore” (Poe 10). As he is brooding, he encounters a raven that is tapping his door. Amused by the raven, he would ask the raven questions only to have it reply a single answer: “Nevermore” (Poe 48). As the speaker continues to ask questions, the questions take a turn for the worse. He starts to think…

the piece is the experience that the speaker has during his time in the south, from attending the “big meeting” to witnessing a lynching. Both of those events tie into his continued debate over which race he should identify with. The author uses the narrative structure and a straightforward tone as well as contrasting events to show how the speaker is working…

little bit to the point that he knows exactly what he wants and has the ability to cheat and lie. In the fourth stanza, the lover is depicted as having acknowledged his power over the speaker in that he knows he is the cause of the speaker’s wailing, yet triumphs in it. At the end of the poem in the fifth stanza, the speaker has realized that directly seeking out love will only end up harming one’s…

leads to more saving. In the case of D.H. Lawrence's rendition of his own poem Piano, less writing leads to a more centralized idea, and therefore a greater emphasis of the message conveyed. While perfection is never guaranteed, Lawrence and the speaker use time and alterations to clarify the meaning behind Piano. Therefore, the revision of Piano is stronger than the original due to its conciseness, consistent mood, and overall greater emotional pull on the reader. While the first version of…

When reading a speech the reader uses their own accent or does not put emphasis on words that the speaker may want the reader to know. For example in Barbara Jordan’s “Keynote Speech to the Democratic National Convention, 1976” Jordan says “We are attempting to fulfill our national purpose, to create and sustain a society in which all of us are equal…

politeness strategies, the speaker conveys that they are co-operators with the addressee and that they have a common ground. The scope of strategies is wider than with negative politeness. While negative politeness strategies are used to redress a particular threat posed by the utterance, positive politeness involves such strategies as compliments or jokes and can be used more freely in the conversation without having to mitigate a specific face threat. When the speaker´s positive face is…