The Speaker

Imprisonment The speakers of the two poems, “The Lie” and “So Cruel Prison How Could Betide” both face execution. The only thing they have is to prepare for their death. Yet, each reacts differently. While both prepare for future death, their attitudes towards their execution differs: In Sir Walter Raleigh’s poem, the speaker is prepared to resign himself to leave the world unlike Henry Howard’s speaker who does not accept his fate even though he will be executed, regardless. Both speakers express themselves

at how a wall might affect a particular society. The poem is a conversation between two neighbors on either side of a wall. The main speaker’s conversation shows his views about the purpose of the wall, and it’s effectiveness to either bring people together, or it’s tendency to separate them.      The main speaker’s conversation shows his feelings about the purpose of the wall. His monotonous feeling toward mending the wall shows his

1. The first four lines are metaphors the speaker uses to draw you into the poem wondering who is in the urn. Making the urn as a mystery box. He goes into great detail about the urn, but leaves the final judgment of who was actually cremated in the urn to the listener. The speaker starts the poem off by acting as if the urn is a bride on her wedding day at the alter and the silence you hear as the groom approaches her. Maybe that’s not it, the ashes in the urn is a foster child, silence and slow

In the poem “To Keep Love Blurry,” “Mother” by Craig Morgan Teicher the speaker is a spirit who is already dead and wants to let it clear. On line 2,5, 14 the speaker says “ You wear my death like a birthmark/ But is my death enough to motor all your days/ This is you talking to you--- I’m dead.” This lets us know that the speaker is someone who is already dead a “spirit”. Therefore, Teicher lets us know how he or she feels the fact of being someone's obsess. For example, in line 12 it says “But

clips.”(2) In line four she also continues with “Rubber bands form my hair.”(3) I feel like Piercy’s goal by starting off the poem in this way, was to help emphasize the speakers frustrations toward her job right away. I also feel that by comparing the speakers body parts to office supplies, gives the feeling that the speaker is using a form of sarcasm; which explains how much her job is unwillingly becoming apart of her life. In line five She states “My breasts are wells of mimeograph ink”. In

Introduction The flash fiction selection I chose for my performance is the story Mythologies written by R. L. Futrell. I chose this story initially because of the title, having an interest in most cultures ' mythologies and stories I started to read the story. However, upon reading the story I was drawn in by the world surrounding the text. A single paragraph of context is all that is given about why the story is being told. The rest is dedicated to a boring drive to West Virginia and the trivialities

upon Her,” by George Gascoigne, the speaker is tormented by the feelings that he still has for his lover. Gascoigne reveals the speaker’s sorrow and complexity of emotions through the structure of an English sonnet, visual imagery and dejected diction. “For That He Looked Not upon Her” is written in the form of an English sonnet which helps to illustrate the speaker’s desperation in a conversational tone. The first quatrain develops an idea that the speaker does not wish to look at a specific woman

Allegro” “Hence loathed Melancholy / Of Ceberus and Blackest Midnight born / In stygian cave forlorn” (1 – 3), the speaker opening lines is a calling against Melancholy and praying for its dismissal, thus he invites the Mirth and together they live “in unreproved pleasures free” (40). Mirth invites the speaker into an imaginative world away from the reality that is Melancholy. After the speaker goes with Mirth he begins to go off in a tangent about countryside life stating: “And Milkmaid singeth blithe

that the psalm is told through first-person point of view. The speaker or persona is present throughout the entire psalm, using “I” and “my” to describe his thoughts, feelings, and memories. One instance is in the beginning stanza where he asks himself, “[when] shall I come and behold the face of God?” (Ps. 42.2). Already this tells the reader that this will be a very personal psalm, allowing insight into the speaker’s mind. The speaker is filled with anguish, but also strongly desires God’s presence

David Bottoms’ “Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt,” the speaker uses flexible diction and metaphor to illuminate the sacrifice his father made for him. He continues the metaphor into the present to show that he has finally understood this sacrifice. First the speaker emphasizes the importance of baseball, highlighting the time and sacrifice his father made for him, an unappreciative son. Towards the end of the poem the speaker shows that he has realized his mistake, and creates a metaphor