wanted the American public to know that he had their best interest at heart and that he would live by that code. He referred to the constitution. Was the speaker fully prepared? How do you know? Yes‚ he was well prepared. He made very good contact with the audience. His speech was fluent and every point flowed well into each other. Was the speaker honest in what was said? How do you know? Yes. He had knowledge. He knew the law and
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that faith will guide you down your path. The beginning starts by depicting the tone and its word refrain. The speaker highlights some quixotic ideas in their current behavior. The tone is both capricious and visionary because the speaker imagines setting out down the path without any concrete ideas of what lies ahead. In the line‚ “My eyes—I rest my mind on them” it shows that the speaker is visionary because they rely on faith; their views aren’t realistic‚ there unpredictable and imaginative. In
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In Elizabeth Bishop’s two poems The Fish and The Moose the speakers detail an encounter with two very different animals‚ due to circumstances that could be considered mundane. However‚ due to Bishop’s masterful use of descriptive and careful imagery‚ these chance meetings are elevated and transformed into poetic experiences. The Fish and The Moose additionally achieve a level of surreality through their imagery‚ one by paying careful attention to the animal itself‚ and the other commits to developing
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most people have experienced this feeling before‚ the feelings of being seen‚ but not truly “seen.” As if every part of their being‚ their roots‚ their culture‚ and history meant nothing and holds no value to anyone but themselves‚ just as the speaker is raised in a bi-lingual‚ bi-culture atmosphere although most of us may be forgotten throughout our lifetime from daily encounters or short terms relationships; semester long classmates and professors‚ the poem “Persimmons” by Li-Young Lee
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When I first read this poem‚ I thought the speaker was showing sympathy by saying “war is kind” to people who had lost loved ones in the war‚ or that “war is kind” because it eventually makes peace. But then I realized‚ the more that I think about war and how it is not at all kind makes me believe the speaker in this poem is being sarcastic when he says that “war is kind”. I still believe that he was showing sympathy in a paradoxical way. Society tends to overlook how bad war really is and how gruesome
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participated in the protest on the 16th‚. “thoughts” suggests that the poem is reflective. Body tomorrow i travel on a road that winds to the top of the hill In lines 1 and 2 the speaker expects to encounter a difficult and unpredictable path ahead of him‚ it is a metaphor for life. “i” suggests that the speaker feels that he is insignificant when compared with his comrades in the protest. “winds” suggests the unforeseeable future. The path ahead of the young man is not straight-forward but
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however; the speaker or narrator in each poem has the power over the subject of the poem. In Tennyson‚ the speaker merely commentates on the event itself with hindsight and takes it upon himself to decide what honour is and distributes it to the soldiers. Kipling’s speaker‚ in similar fashion‚ dictates what honour is and therefore holds the power over his son and also the reader. They do contrast however in so far as Tennyson commends the actions of the light brigade whereas Kipling’s speaker is telling
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Frost also demonstrates how men never exist alone when surrounded by nature. In “The Tuft of Flowers”‚ the speaker thinks he works alone. Then frost writes‚ “But as I said it‚ swift there passed me by on noiseless wing a ‘wildred butterfly” (18). The Butterfly becomes the speaker’s morning companion‚ and its’ flight leads the speaker to the flowers. He serves to help lead the man to realize that life and beauty unite all things. Frost writes‚ “
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towards maturity. The theme is maturity and it is developed by the repetitive quote “I was fifteen”(5). The theme is developed to present maturity. At the beginning of the poem the speaker-a young teen-is at a bridge. “Sought of the bridge on Seventeenth I found‚ back of the willows one summer day”(1-2). The speaker opens the poem with this statement because it symbolizes a bridge. On one side of the bridge was a young teenager who wants to live‚ but crossing it meant crossing into maturity. The
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character starts to have difficulties in letting go of his past and this interferes with his decision. This character brings on the all too familiar problem that everyone experiences whilst dealing with change. There is always a catalyst for change. The speaker of the poem begins by listing specific things that cause unhappiness and thus a need for change. The line "novels interrupted by the din of the tunnels" depict how the persona strives to appreciate literature but the "dim of the tunnels" or their
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