we go along the poem. The manner in which the speaker initially views the filling station with disgust is clearly shown in the opening stanza of the poem. However‚ this changes as we go along the poem. The speaker becomes less judgmental and more objective. She initially finds only disorder in the filling station; however‚ as we go along the poem‚ she realizes that the order outweighs the disorder. Hence‚ I will show how the personality of the speaker changes as the poem progresses‚ and how his viewpoint
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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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Miguel J. Merriweather Phyllis Steward English 2003- World Literature I Diagnostic Essay August 29‚ 2011 The overall attitude I receive from the poem is that the speaker is having a moment to retrospect to the father. Reliving the times where the father would come home from a bar after a long day’s work to a child‚ staying up past normal bedtime anticipating his/her father’s return‚ eager to engage in good nature fun before both retired off to bed. The first stanza demonstrates the excitement
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Whenever it is time to prepare for a speech in class the first thing I think about is how I can connect with the audience. I do this first because I feel that any audience member should feel a connection between them and the speaker whether or not they agree or disagree with the speaker. And the way I display this connection with the audience is through the types of immediacy such as verbal immediacy‚ nonverbal immediacy‚ technological influences on immediacy‚ and cultural influences on immediacy. In
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In Yusef Komunyakaa’s “Facing It‚” the speaker encounters his grief at the Vietnam Memorial‚ undergoing confusing emotions from his experience of grief and loss at the war‚ but later realizes there is joy and harmony in living‚ appreciating the value of his own life [PrPP]. The first half of the poem demonstrates the speaker’s despair and confusion by visiting and reflecting on the wall from the memorial‚ the wall visually and physically representing the loss of his comrades. The poem opens with
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In the poem the speaker is insisting that he and his comrades are being attacked and they know that they are not going to make it out alive. Since the speaker and his allies know that their demise is definite‚ they want to die fighting with honor and like men. Mckay uses a variety of literary forms when writing this poem. Three of his literary devices he used in “ If we must die” are theme‚ imagery and form. The themes of “ If We Must Die” is honor‚ nobility and bravery. The speaker knows that he and
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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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Childs life‚ where one is confronted with leaving their home‚ their country‚ to live somewhere else unknown. In ’Originally’‚ which is divided into three parts‚ one follows the experiences of a speaker‚ who seems to have been forced to leave his or hers home‚ change and crisis being endured‚ and how the speaker in the end effect‚ slowly‚ adapts. The Poem though seemingly talks about this child leaving its home and changing‚ the Poem also shows how People all there lives change‚ starting by growing up
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helpful step is to becoming a better speaker is to raise the pitch of the voice just a little every now and then being careful not to yell. Which in turn allows the speech to sound sort of like a debate to some extent‚ especially id it is on something the speaker really would care about and that is very important as well. Another tip would be to study some great speakers such as Abraham Lincoln‚ John F Kennedy‚ or Winston Churchill just to list a few. These speakers were amongst the best most well-known
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physical appearance than to what they are saying. Perhaps you simply don’t like the speaker - you may mentally argue with the speaker and be fast to criticise‚ either verbally or in your head. You are not interested in the topic/issue being discussed and become bored. Not focusing and being easily distracted‚ fiddling with your hair‚ fingers‚ a pen etc. or gazing out of the window or focusing on objects other than the speaker. Feeling unwell or tired‚ hungry‚ thirsty or needing to use the toilet. Identifying
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