The Speaker

bold move when it strictly focuses on the glorification of himself. Whitman’s use of arrogant diction helps convey a condescending tone that suggests the speaker is superior to others. However, this egotistical belief is complicated in his poem when his use of inclusive diction invokes a friendly welcoming environment. Through his Speaker, Whitman uses these shifts of diction to present contradictions which allow the reader to encounter multiple emotions. At the same time, his use of free verse

for the speech was 28 August 1963. The speaker was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The audience were a massive group of civil rights marchers approximately two hundred fifty thousand. The topic the speaker addressed was for an end to racism in the United States, and economic and civil rights. I had minimum knowledge that it would be about addressing the end to discrimination of the negroes. Yes, the speaker was introduced as a great man of this nation. The speaker had a couple qualifications for speaking

both that which is restricted and that which restricts, are allowed simultaneous freedom of movement. This is an exemplary idea for a time when many restraints in America, socially and physically, were being defied. Further in the poem, the speaker tells of the mending of the wall with, "And on a day we meet to walk the line/And set the wall between us once again/We keep the wall between us as we go/To

epigram, the speaker witnesses a beautiful lady. We notice that the last epigram takes place within nature as the other two did. The speaker states, “At last so faire a Ladie did I spie, / That in thinking on hir I burne and quake” (Spenser 1-2). As we are coming towards the last of epigrams to be analyzed in a Theatre for Worldlings, we come to recognize that the speaker has been heartbroken twice in the previous epigrams. However, once he or she sees a “Ladie” we understand that the speaker is possibly

the feeling that the speaker is in the right, especially when he says, “the case we had against them was airtight.” However, the use of the oxymoron “airtight” also raises the question if the speaker is truly in the right. In the third stanza, the speaker uses another oxymoron which has the same effect as the

To elaborate, passive listening is only for adjournment the judgement and only listening. The benefit of passive listening is it will enable in expanding the ideas of the speaker in the appearance of other people who are perceived yet does not appraise (Yap Khiam Hong and Massila Hamzah, 2010). Passive listener as can be seen in school, whereas the teacher teaching in the front and the student will just listen to what the

emotion present in the poem can be felt immediately as the speaker describes the nature of the woman’s death. The speaker is clearly close to the dying woman, and is impacted by her deteriorating health as he/she describes how this situation alters his/her outlook of the world in lines two through four. Not only do these lines illustrate how the speaker is affected by the death of the woman, but the lines 19 and 20 also show this as the speaker says how his/her soul is “too jostled… to speak at length

serious, the speaker resolute to do his job as quarterback. Football terminology is evident and differentiates the solemness of the first two lines from the altered tone in the next section of the poem. The shift takes place with a hasty 'what the hell is this?' (Line 3), invoking a completely different view from the speaker. Although, there is still a sliver of the previous tone in the au courant one, the author meant for the new tone to be amusing in the mix-up with equipment and the speakers comparison

The speaker is talking about someone as if they met in an "old ancient inn" (2). He speaks of how they "should have sat" (3) as if he regrets what he might have done in the past; he would have approached the situation differently by drinking "nipperkin" (4). The guilt that shrouds the narrator is apparent as he imagines a life for the man. The speaker is now on the battlefield as "infantry" (5) what could be assumed as in the trenches as he stares "face to face" (6) at the man who could have been

Kowsalya Ganesan (14) Class: 207 Write-Up Once A Friend This poem is about losing a friend. Without her friend, the speaker is deprived of happiness. Even when the speaker laughs or smiles, it is faked. The speaker was affected so much that breathing became a burden. Initially, they were elated but soon, it turned into a path with a bitter end. “Kiss of death” is a phrase, which refers to something that causes failure