Talking: Ways Of Talking
A. Ways of Talking
1. Briefly explain the speaker's attitude towards grief in stanza 1 and 2.
a. The speaker, and who ever else is included in the “we”, discusses how they also enjoyed talking about grief and actively grieving. Grief was a feeling that was often expressed by the speaker(s) or shown in the world around them. In the first and second stanza, the speaker(s) talked about grief and grieved whether or not there was actually something to be express grief on.
2. How does that change in stanza 3?
a. In stanza 3, the speaker(s) decided to stop talking about and expressing grief, not in a way that makes them suppress their feelings, but because there wasn’t anything to be sad about anymore. Grief became a fleeting feeling for the speaker(s)
1. Briefly explain the speaker's attitude towards grief in stanza 1 and 2.
a. The speaker, and who ever else is included in the “we”, discusses how they also enjoyed talking about grief and actively grieving. Grief was a feeling that was often expressed by the speaker(s) or shown in the world around them. In the first and second stanza, the speaker(s) talked about grief and grieved whether or not there was actually something to be express grief on.
2. How does that change in stanza 3?
a. In stanza 3, the speaker(s) decided to stop talking about and expressing grief, not in a way that makes them suppress their feelings, but because there wasn’t anything to be sad about anymore. Grief became a fleeting feeling for the speaker(s)