it is evident that the speaker has experienced much loss. Through diction‚ syntax‚ and verse form‚ the relation between the speaker’s attitudes toward loss in lines 1-15 and lines 16-19 can be clearly seen as the poem progresses from the different losses of things‚ places‚ and lastly “you‚” her lover (16). Both attitudes admit that “the art of losing” can be mastered‚ however‚ they have different ideas on whether a loss is disastrous or not. In lines 1-15‚ the speaker portrays a nonchalant attitude
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moment‚ etc. Furthermore‚ she uses words as her lens to “snapshot the face / Of the unwilling travelers‚” exhorting readers to bring out their camera to document the atrocities they see. (Implying that each person determines his or her medium‚ the speaker reflects that words are her camera.) By doing so‚ all beings bear witness to the experiences that heretofore had not been captured. Using poetry as her lens‚ Finney’s scathing commentary about the emasculation of the spirit propels readers to dismantle
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3.2 Medbh McGuckian’s “Eavesdropper” The poem “Eavesdropper” by Medbh McGuckian presents exactly this issue to the reader. The speaker in the poem addresses her pubescent younger self (Schrage-Früh‚ “Eavesdropper” 144): That year it was something to do with your hands: To play about with rings‚ to harness rhythm In staging bleach or henna on the hair‚ Or shackling‚ unshackling the breasts. (McGuckian 15) In the first stanza the author remembers how her puberty started‚ and she experimented with
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speaker’s imagination with reality. Like Marlow‚ materialism is evident in Ondaatje’s text to establish dedication to his lover. Both poems discuss love on different levels and use materialism in distinct manner to express love. Marlowe’s speaker is extending an affectionate invitation to a woman. He says‚ “Come live with me and be my love / And we will all the pleasures prove (1-2). He expresses his desire to luxuriate in the pleasures of the present. He further elaborates his proposal
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to understand the significance of spring before the speaker explains it. The speaker sets the scene and allows it to transform throughout the poem through the use of concrete imagery. From the first line “the gingko bones shiver a bit‚ dream of full bloom” to “the coat of green slowly fill the wiry limb” readers can clearly tell that poet is trying to convey that the season is changing from winter to Spring. This is significant to the speaker because this year he gets to slow down and watch the
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represents a memory and makes it seem more personal. The speaker is looking back on memories based on the conflict with her daughter and how her daughter is constantly trying to pull away from her. “I can remember you” clearly tells the reader that the speaker is thinking back to an earlier time in relationship and this builds up the foundation of what the poem is going to be about. The memory is noticeably very meaningful towards the speaker as she remembers the minor details such as “window watching”
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The tone of each poem differed amongst each other. “To the Virgins‚ to Make Much of Time” has a pessimistic tone. The speaker is giving advice to all young women‚ but he also conveys his opinion about a declining quality of life; “But being spent‚ the worse‚ and worst/ Times still succeed the former.” He states that as time passes‚ life becomes worse than it was before. The images of the poem also help to create this tone‚ such as the image of the dying flower‚ on lines 3 and
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condition that affects Gornick. The message of this essay is to point that the speaker of the story did not asset with a person that will meet her same identical characteristics on the way she expressed herself to others. Gornick’s anxiety on obtaining more than what she already possessed assembled her to confront with obstacles that cruelly made her despair herself from delusions. For example‚ in the essay the speaker quotes‚ “Either way‚ my friends and I saw ourselves as variations of one or the
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However‚ we the negative team believe that this statement if false. Today as first speaker‚ I will be talking to you about the evolvement of manners. How life is not as formal as it used to be which has resulted in today’s society to be more laid back. We’ve developed a different idea about how we should behave and how we’re finding some manners aren’t that relevant to our society anymore. Our second speaker Kane will be talking about how criticizing younger people’s manners is an ongoing cycle
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with the Night”. In his poem‚ one solitary speaker walks away from civilization beyond the “furthest city light” (l. 3). In this case‚ absolute darkness parallels solitude in the sense that lights represent company. Because of the speaker’s loneliness‚ the poem’s tone possesses a bleak‚ somber quality mirrored in adjectives like‚ “saddest” and “unearthly”. The speaker purposely excludes himself from the company of others‚ while Dickinson’s speaker uses the presence of others as a learning experience
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