Speaker for the Dead

athlete who surprisingly died at a youthful age before all of his life’s expectations had been fulfilled. The speaker seems to consider the athlete’s death as a positive phenomenon for the athlete. The speaker uses several figurative languages to make the poem more personal, so that readers can feel engaged. The poem appears to be about “Pride and the unexpectedness of death” – the speaker believes that it was better for the athlete to die young with pride and honor than to undergo the…

external conflict. First, the speaker struggles to mentally make amends with the woman who has broken his heart. Secondly, it is unveiled in the first line that the speaker has been hurt by an external force, a female, whom he wants her to suffer the consequences for her wrongdoings. The speaker refers to the woman as a “murd’ress” in the first line (“When by thy scorn, O’ murd’ress, I am dead (1))” even though she has not physically killed him or anyone. The speaker struggles to move on from…

of the Canadian Rockies region. The poem’s speaker empathizes with the horses’ unfortunate deaths at the hands of the hunters. The overall tone of the poem is solemn with undertones of regret for the unnecessary deaths of the horses. In the poem, “Wild Horses,” Lane effectively employs poetic structure and style to establish a commentary that focuses on the relation between the predatory hunters and their prey - the horses. In “Wild Horses,” the speaker begins with a scene of the horses with…

Plath’s first known typewritten draft of “Stings,” in Stings: Original Drafts of the Poem in Facsimile, there is a powerful negativity towards men. The speaker of the poem refers to men as “stingless dead men,” (65)…

Elephants and human beings can be family or at least that is what “To a dead elephant” by David Livingstone suggests. It explores the familial relationship between a young boy and an elephant, as they grow up together. After many years together, the elephant dies and as a result the boy, now a grown man writes a poem attributed to his friend. Consequently, the poem or eulogy conveys a very important ecological message that animals and humans can co – exist peacefully. Before his death in 1996,…

are several future events that the author foreshadows from the story Beowulf. When he says “A slave has stolen a jeweled chalice and so provoked a dragon; yet more than the threat of retribution is at stake” (The Lament of the Last Survivor).The speaker is alluding to the same dragon that later kills Beowulf. In this quote the author also discusses himself as being a man, who is the last of an ancient race of people committing the treasures that…

Edgar Allan Poe is known as one of America’s most famous poets. His poems were typically based on chilling imagery such as death, decay, supernatural powers and worldly evil, and looking into Edgar’s life, one could say that he wrote his poems based on his own life experiences. For instance, the fact that he lost most of the females close to his heart, are reflected in most of his poems, mainly by the death of a beautiful maiden. A short biography on Poe talked a little about a part of Poe’s…

humanity and the nature. The poem uses a conversational style to express the theme. It is a short poem which consists eighteen lines only, separated into four quatrains with one closing couplet. While the title literally and directly tells us the speaker of this poem is travelling through the dark, we are able to understand the situation…

principles, only then can one see the chain of events that can occur as a result of a single action. It can be said that “Traveling Through the Dark” is a text that examines and reflects upon the balance between life and death, which in turn allows the speaker to argue for the importance of acting with integrity in situations posing moral dilemmas. In…

ethos, pathos, and logos, it is obvious that Brutus is the more persuasive speaker. Both Brutus and Antony used ethos trying to persuade the crowd who the best persuasive speaker is at the funeral speech. One example from Brutus is, "Believe me for mine honor and have respect to mine honor that you may believe." He is trying to make them to respect him and believe him so that he will be proven to be the best persuasive speaker. One example from Antony is, "Ambition should be made of sterner…