PPT-Speaker vs. Poet

The Speaker One of the most difficult concepts in the study of poetry is that of the speaker The speaker is roughly equivalent to the narrator of fictional works It is a character or psychological persona that the poet constructs to deliver the words of the poem . Ms. Amber Huntington. Adapted from . Introduction to the Poem, Revised Second Edition. Robert W. Boynton and Maynard Mack. Every Poem Has a Speaker. The most important single factor in a poem considered as a dramatic situation is its speaker. What is a Conscientious Objector?. This is a person who is strongly against war and fighting and who refuses to fight on the grounds of freedom of thought, conscience, or religion. . I hear him leading his horse out of the stall; I hear. By Frances . Cornford. I used to think that grown-up people chose. To have stiff backs and wrinkles round their nose,. And veins like small fat snakes on either hand,. On purpose to be grand.. Till through the banisters I watched one day. TP-CASTT. T is for Title. While it’s generally true that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, it is perfectly okay to judge a poem by its title! Take a look at the title and try to predict what the poem might be about. Remember, the poet chose that title for a reason—so what IS that reason??. Carol Ann Duffy. Objectives. To explore how Duffy describes imagination and day dreaming through language and structure. Starter. What do you day dream of?. Why do we day dream?. What does this image make us think of?. Carol Ann Duffy. Objectives. To understand why the speaker does the things he does. To be able to comment on the use of language and structure in the poem. Glossary. Repetition – repeating a word or a phrase more than once for an effect. draws, the more the poet talks about speed and sampling error. The more the user draws curves, the more the poet writes about quantization and estimation. The longer a user pauses between strokes th By . William Blake. 1757-1827. The Garden of Love. What do we understand from the title of the poem?. I went to the Garden of Love,.. And saw what I never had seen;. A Chapel was built in the midst,. ’. Dramatic Monologue. Dramatic monologue. refers to a type of poetry. . These . poems are . dramatic. in the sense that they have a theatrical quality; that is, the poem is meant to be read to an audience. . – What they are about.. 2. The. ideas . in the poems – what the . . poet is saying.. 3. The . mood and atmosphere . of . . the poem.. 4. How they are written – . . . stylistic. choices.. .. To . understand the multiple meanings of a poem, readers must examine its words and phrasing from the perspectives of rhythm, sound, images, obvious meaning, and implied meaning. .. Readers . then need to organize responses to the verse into a logical, point-by-point explanation. Norman . MacCaig. divided his time mainly between Edinburgh, . where he lived and worked, and the north-west Highlands, where . he had relations and friends. . This poem depicts the startling encounter he had with a basking . Literary Devices. Exact Rhyme: two or more words have identical sounds in their final stressed syllables. One/Begun. Slant rhyme: a close, but not exact rhyming sound, meant to disturb the reader’s ear and draw emphasis. ENGLISH. BON SECOURS COLLEGE FOR WOMEN – THANJAVUR.. INTRODUCTION - LYCIDAS. Milton's elegy '. Lycidas. ' is also known as monody which is in the form of a pastoral elegy written in 1637 to lament the accidental death, by drowning of Milton’s friend Edward King who was a promising young man of great intelligence. The elegy takes its name from the .