Fires of Destruction (word count: 1‚245) In the poem “Nighttime Fires” the speaker of the poem is remembering the speaker father’s wild obsession with burning houses at night and how the speaker had to go with the father to these burning houses with the family. The father is a casualty of the rough economy and this anger toward his bad luck is the reason he loves seeing these macabre scenes. The speaker in “Nighttime Fires” vividly illustrates the lasting impression that the fires and his father’s
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personification‚ and colorful imagery develops a speaker and a character that demonstrates affection for the quilt’s qualities and reveals a more complex underlying message about the quilt’s impact on how the speaker perceives her life and family. The author employs imagery throughout the poem by pairing vivid colors with other characters and figures to contribute to a more complex meaning. This visual imagery is found in line 3 when the speaker described
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Mat Noh Group Members: Koo Chi Haw 205634 Thong Hsien Jin 205770 Mohammad Azlan bin Annual 206955 Muhammad Noorhafizi bin Noor Azay 207278 Title: How State budgets are breaking US schools In the beginning of the speech‚ the speaker did gained the attention and interest of the audience by relating the topic to the audience and stating the importance of the topic and relating the topic to the audience. He mentioned that “And these budgets are the key for our future; they’re the
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engage the visitor’s interest. C lack artistic originality. 2 Extract Three You hear a woman talking on the radio about her favourite piece of music. 5 How does the speaker say she feels when listening to her favourite piece of music? A B nostalgic C 6 engrossed inspired The speaker believes that critics of her favourite music are wrong to A doubt the level of its popularity. B disregard the composer’s skills. C underrate it for its wide appeal
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escape pain‚ the speaker uses aposiopesis: an abrupt silent. Throughout the entire poem‚ we are not told what was the conversation between the victim and the rapists about. Further‚ the speaker is reluctant to address the subject. Thus‚ deviating to narrative time. Purposely‚ the silence effaces the gruesome details for us to imagine it. Leaving a gap between the narration that ignites the reader’s imagination to the utmost level. By comparing herself with a child‚ the speaker alludes to an archetypal
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Speaker in poetry Christen Borgersrode I chose to write about “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden. This poem was a touching memory as the speaker looked back on how he never thanked his father for all he did on those chilly Sunday mornings. In lines one through five the speaker talks about how the father would always get up in the early morning‚ in the “blueblack cold”‚ and get a fire started to warm the house after working hard that previous week. This shows that the father worked hard
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In “The Juggler” by Richard Wilbur‚ the speaker employs detailed imagery and a praising tone in order to express the speaker’s admiration towards multitaskers and his criticism for the lack of recognition they recieve. The speaker admires the juggler’s talent of controlling multiple objects at once‚ and does so through imagery appealing to sight. While juggling‚ the juggler manages to perform and complete the act without dropping a single ball. The speaker compares the balls to heaven and describes
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poem‚ "Out-Out" by Robert Frost; the speaker has a somber‚ serious‚ regretful attitude‚ an ironic tone‚ and a vivid descriptive voice towards the events occurring throughout the poem. He (the speaker) is shown as a witness to the story that takes place. Frost uses this dramatic take on a chain of events to guide you through a series of emotions as the poem develops. The first thing I noticed in reading the poem was the calm and serene atmosphere that the speaker was describing. "The buzz saw snarled
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Coleridge finds this ultimate joyfulness watching nature as well. He writes of a man watching nature do its daily chores‚ bees buzzing around‚ Birds flapping their wings. While watching nature for a split second the speaker sees a glimpse of ultimate joyfulness. The speaker finds nature to be so beautiful that he actually questions what beauty is. Wordsworth appreciates the beauty of nature so much that when he is feeling lonely he instantly is uplifted when he remembers the majestic daffodils
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explore the sense of belonging by his speaker in different ways. We experience through “The Widower in the Country” a loss of a sense of belonging caused by the death of the speaker’s wife. In “The Away-Bound Train” the speaker describes the rural landscape in his poetry‚ and his sense of belonging to it. Les Murray in “The Widower in the Country” uses descriptive imagery and emotive language to highlight the loss of belonging. The depression of the speaker by having no real direction in life
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