What’s That Smell in the Kitchen? The speaker in this poem is talking to an audience. From reading‚ this poem is about women wanting respect which can be inferred that the speaker may be a female. The setting is around the time of 1982 in the household of a woman who are angry and unhappy. Line 10 says anger sputters in her brainpan‚ that they are really angry. Another part of the poem goes off to say‚ “If she wants to grill anything‚ it’s her husband spitted over a slow fire‚” showing that in
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his fellow African-Americans‚ who are being mistreated by the white slave owners. The speaker tells his people not to go easily‚ but rather fight as long as possible and don’t ever give up before they are killed. The poet believes that the worst things that these people can do is giving up and stop trying; he wants them to fight until the very end of their lives. Right from the beginning of the poem the speaker reiterates the title of the poem and the message that he is trying to convey. “If we
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In the poem by Richard Wilbur poetic elements are present. The tone shift from negative to positive shows us how the speaker feels toward to juggler‚ which is that he brings happiness to people. The figurative language shows how the juggler performs and the vivid imagery shows how skilled he is. The speaker’s tone starts off with being negative. It says “a ball will bounce‚ but less and less” this gives off a negative connotation. The ball may represent happiness. The happiness will occur but slowly
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process‚ rather than a sad and permanent ending. Lee elegantly uses metaphor to describe the painful final seconds of a homicide victim’s life as part of a larger progression. As Stephen‚ presumably a friend of the poem’s speaker‚ bleeds to death following a violent attack‚ the speaker compares Stephen’s humanity with a crowd quickly departing an auditorium‚ “the day Stephen was murdered / everything that made us love him rushed from his knife wounds /as though his chest were an auditorium / his life
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light that the verb’keep’ also has its own negative connotations as in the illegitimate "keep". Therefore it also indicates the deed of holding a person "illegally". The notion that the parents were obdurate on restraining the speaker from such company‚ implies that the speaker desired to befriend them. He portrays the children for the most part with the adjective"rough". That is‚ they come across as ’rough’ both in appearance and attitude. The gist of the title verges on the fact that had these children
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The poem can be viewed as a sensational verse or emotional monolog. Each spring‚ the speaker in the lyric‚ probably the writer himself and his neighbor‚ an old New England rancher stroll along the stone divider between their individual properties to survey and repair the harm done to the divider consistently‚ apparently by cruel climate and seekers. Every rancher gets the stones that have tumbled to his side and places them back on the divider yet being of uneven shapes and sizes‚ they don’t stay
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The theme of distance is introduced in the opening line. When the speaker informs the reader‚ “Tonight I can write the saddest lines‚” he suggests that he could not previously. We later learn that his overwhelming sorrow over a lost lover has prevented him from writing about their relationship and its demise. The speaker’s constant juxtaposition of past and present illustrate his inability to come to terms with his present isolated state. Neruda’s language here‚ as in the rest of the poem‚ is simple
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the sea on a rented old boat‚ what was found was not what was intentionally searched for. In looking for sustenance or to fill an internal void with confidence‚ the speaker finds themself humbled in a moment of catharsis by the understanding of mortality and the possibilities within it. When first engaging with a caught fish‚ the speaker describes the fish as having a “grunting weight‚ / battered and venerable” (8). This description depicts a specific tone of respect for the longevity of the fish along
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creates in the lives of two people: the speaker and her friend on the other side of the Pacific. The speaker day dreams about what would happen if they were together‚ then ends on the bittersweet note that despite the distance between them‚ they still neighbour the same ocean. The first stanzas shows the distance between the two people. The speaker states she comes from an "opposite country"‚ meaning they are as fundamentally different as possible. The speaker illustrates this by showing that simple
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the feelings one may have toward loss. The speaker begins with a declaration that “the art of losing isn’t hard to master” (1)‚ and repeats it several more times throughout the poem. She speaks in a casual and easy to understand tone‚ despite its perplexing verse form (known as the villanelle). The speaker starts with the loss of ordinary‚ everyday things and gradually moves to the bigger things‚ such as the loss of her significant other. While the speaker claims that losing is something she has long
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