Poem The Speaker example essay topic

In the poem, The Tyger, the speaker makes effective use of the literary terms rhyme, rhythm and meter. Rhyme is the repetition of the same stressed vowel sounds and any succeeding sounds in two or more words. The type of rhyme used is end rhyme because it occurs at the ends of lines. Rhythm in poetry means the flow of sound produced by language. Throughout this poem, one can sense something repeating in the rhythm.

This pattern of rhythm in a poem is called meter. Meter is a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that gives a line of poetry a predictable rhythm. Meter gives form to what we hear in a poem by telling us what to expect the rhythm to do from line to line. This rhythm gives the poem a musical quality and it helps to convey the meaning.

The speaker asks a basic question in this poem. "What immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?" In this context, symmetry means "well-proportioned form". Basically, the speaker is wondering what kind of unreal being would dare to make such a creature that is proportioned so well. He has never seen an animal with such a great physique. He is amazed at the tiger's almost perfect outward appearance.

One might infer that the speaker's attitude toward the tiger is one of fear, excitement and awe. He shows excitement by exclaiming "Tyger! Tyger!" In line 20 the speaker asks a question. "Did he who made the Lamb make thee?" One can infer that the speaker is wondering if the same immortal being that made the terrible and dreadful tiger could make such a gentle and mild creature as a lamb.

He makes reference to another one of his poems titled The Lamb, in which he asks two questions. Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee? In that poem the speaker answers the questions that he asked, but in The Tyger the speaker asks a lot of rhetorical questions. His intent is to make the reader think.

In the poem, Eve's Apology, written by A emilia Lawyer, the speaker uses argument to appeal to the reader's emotions. Argument is a type of persuasive writing in which logic or reason is used to try to influence the reader's ideas or actions. In an argument, a writer states an opinion and supports that opinion by using carefully presented facts and reasoning. In this poem the speaker makes a powerful argument for the defense of Eve's actions in the Garden of Eden. The speaker places most of the blame on Adam for eating fruit from the tree of knowledge, while Eve was the first to eat from the forbidden tree, and the one that gave the fruit to Adam for him to eat.

They both had been warned by God that if they ate from the tree that they would be punished. God punished them by banishing them from the Garden and by causing their lives to be full of sorrow. In lines 17-18 the speaker appeals to the reader's emotions by saying that Adam laid the fault on Eve and that (poor women) would be forced to endure it all. One can tell that the speaker feels like women are mistreated and are not treated the same way as men. Also, in the last stanza the speaker appeals to the reader's emotions. The speaker says that Eve's only fault was too much love and that her abundance of love is what caused her to give the "present" to her dear, Adam.

According to the speaker, Eve wanted Adam to experience what she had tasted so that his knowledge would become clearer. The speaker criticizes Adam for not condemning Eve for her weakness. The speaker ends the poem with a simile to show the source of men's knowledge. She says that men will boast of knowledge, which Adam took from Eve, as from a learned book.

In the title of this poem the word apology does not mean that Eve is sorry for her actions or is accepting the blame for them. Apology refers to a defense or justification of Eve's actions. The reader gives defense for Eve throughout this whole poem.