The Speaker

the mask of money and success who seemingly has everything anyone could wish for. Robinson starts the first stanza with a description of Richard Cory’s appearance and a clear distinction between the two sides, Richard Cory and “we people”. The speaker mentions Richard Cory in the first line without any introduction, which means that everyone should know who Richard Cory was, so the introduction is not needed. Furthermore, whenever Richard would come to downtown, “we people of the pavement” admired

unsuspecting place. The sea that travels in no direction beyond merely “rolling in or moving out” is consulted by the speaker (line 3). The speaker ambles along the shore uncertain of what to do about their misery, searching for answers. They ask “what shall-/ what should I do,” realizing there would be more meaning in actual guidance than merely deciding what they will do (5-6). The speaker is desperate for meaning, wanting more than to be at the shore, miserable. There is dialogue in the poem, however

In the poem, “Where is She?” by Peter Cherches, the speaker focuses on a man who has a feeling of loss after an important woman in his life goes missing. After the woman goes missing, the man begins to think about her so much, that over time, he begins to forget her. The poem describes the man’s loneliness through his memory and imaginations of this woman while he is trying to hold onto every last memory he has of her. Peter Cherches uses words describing images in a man’s imagination to show the

becomes apparent to the reader that the speaker is one of the seven pool players mentioned. The speakers' tone in the poem is very prideful and defiant, but at the same time, it is filled with uncertainty. This poem is a formal verse ballad which uses simple sentences that have a steady meter that gives the poem a jazz like quality to the poem which further emphasizes the speaker's nonchalant attitude and their disdain for the establishment. The speaker contempt for the system is shown in the line

Walt Whitman´s poem “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” uses the theme of time to communicate a sense of Trancendentalist unity. Whitman's Transcendentalist speaker enters the "appearances" and "usual costumes" of the universe of wonders keeping in mind the end goal to find the truth that ties each and all together in one The speaker, as The title already indicates taking a ferry in New York,does not waste any time before presenting the idea that all humans are united in their common experience. The narrator

the dark by an older brother. Although the speaker refers briefly to an outside world — "many times I am taken back / to my parents in that logging camp" (17); "a family of ten" (17); "the dark wood ahead" (18) — the poem focuses on the brother and the protection he provides to his younger sister. The brother is affectionately fashioned into a mother duck, "his hair slicked back, a ducktail" (17), in whose "nest of blankets and pillows" (17) the speaker feels safe and protected. This metaphor extends

blue and having 5 red balls during his show. He also that it took “a sky-blue juggler… to shake our gravity up.”(lines 6-7). By saying this the audience is able to get an insight into the life of the speaker; we are able to see that not a lot of things happen in the speaker's life that make the speaker happy. Moreover, Richard Wilbur shows the reader on of the tricks the juggler is doing. He says, “ Oh, on his toe the table is turning, the broom’s Balancing up on his nose, and the plate whirls. On

this literary device is used to promote the lustful theme yet again. In lines 18-19, “show your heart” is used by the speaker as a metaphor comparing the imaginable consent of the mistress to have sex as a sign of love (Marvell, lines 18-19). Which implies a faster pace maybe as fast as a heartbeat but he slows his promptness when using the word slow. To extend this metaphor the speaker then manipulates his words introducing the word rate, referring to a heart rate. Although rate could also mean cost

Emily Martin Mrs. Rogers L202 Period 2 15 February 2018 The Sting of Society In Yusef Komunyakaa’s “Blackberries,” a youthful speaker seems to be living past the boundaries of city life and exhibits qualities of rural living. The poem tells of the speaker’s adventure of picking blackberries from a thicket and encountering the duality of urban society. Readers of “Blackberries” might at first be puzzled by the speaker’s youthful memory of picking berries, but a closer analysis of the poem allows readers

I: By “mark” the speaker here tells his lover to look at a particular flea. In the next line he just wonders what little thing has he done that has led to his denial by her. At this point the reader is not quite sure as to what has been denied to the speaker. O: “It suck'd me first, and now sucks thee”, And in this flea our two bloods mingled be.”1(Shmoop Editorial Team) I: The flea sucks on the speaker’s flesh first and then sucks on the lady’s implying intermixing of their blood in its body