The Speaker

metaphor for grief over the speaker's wife, but I also believe that the raven was real at some point in this speakers life. This particular raven maybe flew past the window and this delusional speaker himself saw it, because who would randomly think of a raven. At this time in this speakers life, he was beyond depressed maybe even going crazy, because the love of his life Lenore had passed. The speaker believed someone was knocking on his door, but when he went to look and see who the visitor…

and replies, “nevermore” to whatever the speaker says. The bereaved speaker immerses in the concept of mortality after Lenore’s death; the speaker asks, “Is there- is there balm in Gilead? –tell me- tell me, I implore!” (CIT). The biblical allusion to ‘balm in Gilead’ suggests the speaker’s desperate desire for a relief from his pain. To no surprise, the raven quotes “nevermore”, implying the perpetuation of his grief. This refrain continues, and the speaker becomes infuriated with the…

The speakers in Hughes’s poems relate and embody the themes and symbols of the poems, and with his writing style, makes Hughes’s poems unique to the discussion of major themes that allow for a new perspective. The speakers in Hughes’s poems reflect the people effected by the themes—one of the biggest being dreams. Many of his speakers remain nameless and anonymous and clues are only given in text of their identities to…

down for his poem. Hughes is most likely the speaker in this poem giving the view of an entire group, which would be the colored student population. The poem starts off by sharing an assignment the instructor gave the speaker for their class. The instructor informs the class that if they let their literary work come out off them than it will be true. The speaker in this poem wonders if this advice could really be true. The twenty-two year old speaker, gives his birthplace, Winston Salem,…

Nightingale" is a well-known writing in which the speaker relates his emotions and his happiness to that of a Nightingale. This poem is one where the speaker is sharing his experience with the reader, rather than just recalling his experience, creating more of a personal feel. Through the author's constant use of diction, imagery, and tone, we get a clear representation of what the speaker is going through and how he feels. In the first stanza, the speaker reveals his ambivalent emotions, the…

through the use of symbolism, imagery, and point of view. When the speaker says “I hated the fact that they planned me,” (line 1), this shows us that the speaker finds her conception as an emotionless, meaningless event. In this poem, you will see the speakers attitude changing from hatred, then to doubt, and then to gratitude for her mother having planned her conception. In the first stanza of “The Planned Child” Olds’ makes the speakers point of view of hatred towards her mother for the way…

is also ironic. Those who would tell the speaker that he has wasted his life are people who are unable to see the true value in the speaker 's way of life and because they do not see the meaning, they say there is none. Because they are incapable of seeing meaning and value where there surely is much of both, their whole being is blind and deaf to so much of life and they truly do waste their lives by not living and thinking fully; absolutely. As the speaker reclines in the hammock, they are…

the speaker, who harbors love and does not reveal it due to the denial of his lover, declares “Sweet is the death that taketh end by love”. The speaker, who suffers through the inability to display his love, makes this observation while love resides in his heart. This observation reveals the secrecy of courtly love in the sonnet. The love precipitates the speaker’s suffering through revealing himself to the lover, but then retreating to the speaker’s heart. Through this revelation, the speaker…

The speaker describes the appearance of Eros with very broken and worn down imagistic diction such as “thug”, “broken”, “boxer lips”, and “patchy wings askew”, unlike the poem by Bridges, who uses more idolizing and pure diction to describe Eros. Eros then answers the speaker’s question. Like the first poem, this poem is also written in first person point of view. However, it is in an informal conversation with Eros, who is brought down to the level and status of the speaker as the speaker also…

provide insight into the slow toll that time takes on the pondering mind of the speaker. One such use of this method occurs…