The Speaker

Audience analysis is important to both the speaker and the audience. It is important to the speaker to analyze the audience before hand, taking into account ethnicity, intelligence level, gender, age, and background. Then the speaker can craft a speech that resonates with the hearts of his or her audience so that the point will get across. Additionally, it is important for the speaker to analyze who the audience will be to ensure he or she will not say something extremely offensive or careless.…

powerful tone that signifies one is conquering and controlling a passive death. The powerful tone is highlighted in the words and syntactic structure featured in the first line two lines. Starting with “Because I could not stop for Death,” puts the speaker in a position of knowledge because they are immediately defining the situation as signified by “because”…

civilization; thus, through the speaker, he is able to emphasize the significance of his ancestor’s contributions to global culture. In order to properly analyze this poem, it is important to define who the speaker is. Clues to the speakers identity can be found in the name of the poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”, the speaker referring to itself as “I”, and the wide range of events and time periods that the “I” has witnessed. These clues suggest that the speaker is not a single person or…

depression and passion. This elegy, which is a song of misery reveals the sorrow, pain, and loneliness the speaker feels while at sea. Though the speaker feels these emotions, he is passionate about what he is doing, and will continue his journey. Interpolations also occur through the end of the story which causes the speaker to change how he views his exile. In the first section, the speaker introduces his emotions through his word choice while on his present adventure. However, he tries to…

conflicts. In the poem by Blake, the speaker of the poem is angry with its “Foe” but the foe doesn’t know of the feelings of the speaker. In the short story by Poe the main character Montresor was furious with Fortunato, the other main character, for reasons that Fortunato is not aware of and same with the reader. The poem and short story are similar because along with the character conflict, the reader isn’t aware of the reasons for the anger of both the speaker of the poem and of the main…

“Still I Rise” the speaker describes being sassy, and what it’s like to be beaten down but get back up. They talk about being confident to whatever it is that’s bring the speaker down. The speaker taunts the pain. In “Still I Rise,” Maya Angelou uses the poetic device of simile to let the readers know that when life knocks you down, you have to get back up. In the poem, Maya Angelou uses the poetic device of simile in the seven quatrains. In the beginning of the poem, the speaker says, “You may…

submitting to the pain of loss and looking around it. The speaker is a person who has undergone many loses and is finding difficulty in accepting their most recent loss. They start by giving the example of losing their door keys, providing the humorous image of looking everywhere for the small items. Then, the losses get more intense. We move onto losing their mother’s watch (worth sentimental value), property, and hopes, yet the speaker seemingly has no qualms with forgoing these things and…

“how metal illness changed human history” because the speaker pointed some things out in his video that I wasn’t aware first. At the beginning of the video the speaker told his audience how his parents took him to Europe at the age of 12. There his parents brought him to a cave where he would see cave paintings for the first time in his life. I personally did not know that chose case paintings were in France or in Spain. Furthermore, the speaker talked about how human evolution changed over the…

and overall a positive example. When a child grows up, he or she will reflect and remember the type of person he was. The speakers in these two poems describe their memories and are reflecting back their father’s actions. In the poems “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden and “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke, the speakers, view their fathers as…

rivulets on face,/ deep, rich furrows,/ each one a legacy.” (lines 7-12) and “but your reality, old man, lives on/ in a mindsoul touched by you…” (lines 46-47). This emphasizes the theme because “reality” refers to the old man’s stories and that the speaker will remember the old man’s past stories and that the old man’s stories will be passed through generations. His spirit and heritage will live on as long…