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…

sestets. Additionally, turns of these sonnets occur at line 9, also known as the beginning of a sestet. In Sonnet 31, the moon appears sad, quiet, and pale. The speaker attribute’s the moon’s mood to that of his own, where he is most likely in love with a woman who does not love him back and therefore thinks of him as foolish. The speaker reveals his own situation of a love struggle by addressing the moon with questions, wondering whether love exists in the heavens as well as if love is only…

inferior race. In the poem, “Blink Your Eyes” by Sekou Sundiata and the novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, discrimination is a recurring societal problem that the main characters face. The main character of “To Kill A Mockingbird” and the speaker of “Blink…

“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality” -Lewis Caroll. However, the speaker of the poem “Ironing Their Clothes” by Julia Alvarez believed that imagination will create a reality. The speaker lacks affection from her family members since their lives are too busy for love. She uses her duty to connect with her father, mother, and sister by replacing them with their clothing. She believes that she can not only express her love for them through this, but also mend all of their…

existence. The speaker says, “the fridge motor turns over / like the engine of a great ship / hauling me out to the spot in the ocean” (13). The speaker is thinking of the fridge in comparison to a ship and the size and power that these vehicles have. Then the speaker says, “that’s just as far from one home as the other” (13). The speaker is now thinking that the size and power of these vehicles is nothing compared to the silences that exist in everyday life. The vehicles that the speaker is…

reside in their homes. The speaker accounts for this claim by reasoning out that this is possible because of the creation of an (online) platform that applies a cautiously designed system of a reputation as the vital factor necessary for enhancing trust between complete strangers. Despite the speaker giving a claim ,reason and support of his argument , in this instance, what is of significance to a target audience is whether the arguments as articulated by the speaker himself require a careful…

nature. In “Grass,” the speaker uses proper nouns to put the poem in perspective. Five proper nouns are used throughout this…

showing again the age of the fish. Because of the appearance of the fish, the readers can sympathize with the speaker and understand why the speaker let the…

In “Juggler” by Richard Wilbur, the speaker and the audience witness the gravity-defying performance of the Juggler. When juggling, the Juggler changes the dull atmosphere to a lively one through his momentary triumph against gravity. The speaker observes that although the performance showed temporary victory against gravity, the Juggler made ordinary objects seem special and entertained the audience by inspiring them. The speaker describes the Juggler’s abilities using images of divine power…

essentially illustrated as the speaker is initially faced with a dilemma: there is a fork in the road, although he can only embark on one path. The poem is essentially an extended metaphor about how any decision that a person makes during a present moment will determine their subsequent prospects. The first stanza begins with the repetition of the word “and” in order to accentuate the difficulty associated with selecting between two alternatives, in this case, which road the speaker should…