The Speaker

In the poem, “How Beastly the Bourgeois is” written by D.H. Lawrence. The author uses a speaker who describes his disgust of the Bourgeois (the character) in the poem. Lawrence has the speaker use figurative language and rhetorical devices to express the disgust the speaker has of Bourgeois. Lawrence uses repetition, scientific diction, rhetorical questions, simile, defamiliarization, anaphora and a conceit to show the disgust towards the character in the poem. The ways the author uses literary works

adoration that the speaker experiences. Throughout their typical call home, the speaker’s thoughts increasingly grow out of context, especially in regards to their father’s mortality. After contemplating this mortality to a great extent, the speaker recognizes the eventual impact that their father’s impending death will have on them. An unexpected focus on their father’s mortality leads the speaker to experience intense love for their father during a seemingly casual phone call. As the speaker casually calls

on marriage commitment by a presentation of the past, present, and future of a relationship. Incorporating syntactic devices and comparison, the speaker describes the nature of their changing relationship in different stages. Starting as strangers, the man and the speaker grows closer as the poem progresses described by image patterns; however, the speaker ends in fear of the future of their relationship through tone and alliteration. The progress of the relationship has a sense of uncertainty, explaining

in this house has long been over,” (22-25). The speaker is questioning why they are in this illusion, this time of grief and are questioning whether it is a trap or blessing. This is answered in the later line “as I sit at this morning table alone and happy,” (30). The speaker at this point comes to term with their loss, most likely the loss of their family, and are happy. The last lines of the poem are very interesting, as they present the speaker to be a sort of ghost, “holding my cindery, non-existent

partner’s lovers. Both female characters choose revenge and violence as a way to retaliate and show their strength. In Medusa, the poetic speaker is shown to go through monstrous transformations, caused by jealousy, which motivates her strive for revenge. Duffy portrays jealousy as being transformative and will lead to self-loathing. In The Laboratory, the poetic speaker is shown to have an obsession with poison and killing her love-rivals. Browning shows jealousy as a powerful emotion which can lead to

can die is to welcome pain. The poem, “The Vacuum” focuses on the private aspect of life where one spouse dies leaving the other alone after many years. The speaker in the poem is battling grief and cannot bring himself to use the vacuum cleaner because his late wife used to take pride in a clean house. The composition implies that the speaker no longer cares about life now that his wife has died. The first few lines of the poem heavily foreshadow death, but do not directly address the event that

experiences on the racial stereotype. This literary piece creates an emotional topic between the speaker and the audience which allows people who oppose to understand the struggles that immigrants go through. Baca emphasizes and verbally illustrates the irrational accusations directed at aliens using mockery to battle with the truth towards their ideology and to connect with his audience deeply. Initially, the speaker appears as someone who has

In the poem One Art, the speaker reflects over the many material things that she has lost in the past, like her mother’s watch, and even bigger things like houses. By the end of the poem she ends up confronting and reflecting over the loss of her loved one, which in turn shows a more intense side of loss for her and how she as a person deals with it. Elizabeth Bishop uses repetition, and her own interjections to help convey her belief that loss is an everyday part of life, but it is how you deal

in the poem Midsummer, the speaker mentions a time in which he and another young boy visit an old woman storyteller in his youth. The use of imagery, comparison, and symbolization help to convey the significance of the speaker's experience to the reader and how it shaped him. The speaker's use of imagery also illuminates a certain viewpoint onto the poem that reveals the personal connotations that the visits hold. With the abundance of nature symbolization, the speaker relays the otherworldly, and

In the poem “Richard Cory,” by Edwin Arlington Robinson, the speaker, who is a collective group of impoverished townspeople, recounts the ironic tale of a sophisticated yet secretly unhappy gentleman named Richard Cory. As they describe Richard Cory through simple yet dignified imagery supported with repetitive diction, the townspeople learn that appearances can be deceiving when the wealthy socialite commits suicide. While the speaker observes Richard Cory with a tone of admiration through extensive