The Speaker

all the speaker thinks of is grief, since the death of his lovely wife Lenore. The word choice that was chosen also has an effect on the ominous mood because when the speaker is frantically running around to see where the mysterious noise was coming from, all of the words were describing the sound and the speaker’s fear. Poe’s use of words helps us visualize what exactly is going on. The main character states,“Once upon a midnight dreary, I…

Emily Dickinson chooses the later when she wrote the story that would later be titled “Because I could not stop for Death”, a story that depicts the journey that Death takes the speaker on towards the afterlife and immortality. From the very first line of the poem, readers understand that the poem is about death. The speaker notes how though she could not stop for Death, “He kindly stopped for me” (2). Death is not generally characterized as kind, usually people associate him with coldness and…

“Woodchucks” by Maxine Kumin, the two writers establish scenes in which the speakers face the death of animals but capture their speakers’ opinions on animal lives from different perspectives. While the gloomy and serious tone in Stafford’s work stands a stark contrast with the light-hearted one in the “Woodchucks” as the speakers’ inner feelings differ, the two poems incorporate the usage of personification to highlight the speakers’ conflicts, in which their relationships with animals are…

Passionate Shepherd to His Love” the speaker, an uneducated shepherd, promises his love things that he could never actually give his love. In the…

In Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 116” the speaker gives the reader a set of guidelines on what love is and what love is not. Quatrain 1 and 3 focuses on what love is not, except for the last line of quatrain 3 which tells us what love is. In quatrain 1, the speaker uses wordplay and an enjambment to explain that real love does not change under any circumstance. In quatrain 3 the speaker explains what love is not through the personification of time. Love is not at the mercy of time, it is not “Time’s…

these first sentences of the poem, the speaker challenges Death and discredits its reputation as an all-powerful phase of life by using rhetoric. Death is personified so that the speaker can talk to it, and not about it, causing a direct connection between Death and the speaker. The speaker calls out and commands, “Death be not proud” (1). He uses imperative sentence class to tell Death that he should not be proud for who he is and what he does. The speaker then goes into, “though some have…

chosen from Hard Times by Charles Dickens is about a speaker sharing his view of an educational system that runs solely on teaching facts to students. Since the speaker is sharing his view with the schoolmaster and a third grown person, he speaks in a formal language. However, his formality and character makes him the target of the satirical passage as shown in the second paragraph of the excerpt where the narrator provides a description of the speaker. By referring to the speaker’s “square wall…

The poem "Annabel Lee", by Edgar Allan Poe, shows the speaker's way of coping with the death of his beloved, which is displayed as obsession towards her and his judgment of the holy as guilty. The speaker justifies his obsessed love to Annabel Lee as stronger than any extraordinary force, and presents the holy as disgraced and malice for trying to separate them. First, the repetition of words, phrases and sounds emphasizes the speaker's obsession towards Annabel Lee. Her name is mentioned seven…

the speaker. Was it appropriate? Why or why not? The speaker was wearing a button down shirt with a tie and a pair of slacks. It was appropriate because it was professional and matched the occasion. 2. Were the presentational aids used effectively? Discuss the aid or aids used. Did the speaker and his/her aid(s) comply with the guidelines for proper use of presentational aids? The presentation aids were used effectively and achieved the purpose of reinforcing the presentation. The speaker…

Frieda” is about the speaker’s Aunt and the recollection of her life as she lies on her death bed. The poem takes place as the speaker and his daughter visit the dying woman. The first part recalls memories of Aunt Frieda in the past, while the second part addresses the lessons the speaker and his daughter have learned from her. During the act of undressing Aunt Frieda, the speaker begins to become emotional and remembers the past with her. The poem uses the unique aspects of how she undressed…