the fire of love is dead, and Hardy stands, as the speaker does in the last poem of the sequence, over the burnt circle of charred sticks, and thinks of past happiness and present grief, honest and uncomforted.

When the object of study happens to be some type of discourse ( a speech, a poem, a joke, a newspaper article ), the aim of rhetorical analysis is not simply to describe the claims and arguments advanced within the disourse, but ( more important ) to identify the specific semiotic strategies employed by the speaker to accomplish specific persuasive goals.

In the biblical poem Song of Solomon, the male speaker compares his beloved to many forms of spices.

Milton's famous sonnet, " Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint ," alludes to the myth, with the speaker of the poem dreaming of his dead wife being brought to him " like Alcestis ".

* Elektra ( Laodice ) is the unnamed protagonist and speaker in Yannis Ritsos's long poem Beneath the Shadow of the Mountain.

Also, Robert Browning uses the term " Tertium Quid " in his long narrative poem " The Ring and the Book " to describe a speaker with a third point of view who has a different, more balanced, opinion on the 1698 Roman murder case his poem discusses, different from the opinions of " Half Rome " and " The Other Half Rome " who strongly sympathize with, or strongly do not sympathize with, the accused.

In Michelle Cliff's poem " The Garden ", the speaker wears a t-shirt that reads " Xantippe.

The speaker of the poem, who is the titled shepherd, draws on the idealization of urban material pleasures to win over his love rather than resorting to the simplified pleasures of pastoral ideology.

Reflecting the traditional notion that the poem was written during Arnold's honeymoon ( see composition section ), one critic notes that " the speaker might be talking to his bride ".

Included was the poem " Facing It ," in which the speaker of the poems visits the Vietnam Veterans ' Memorial in Washington D. C.

Jannice Thaddeus suggests that the speaker of the poem, like other figures in Smith's works, changes from male to female as part of a theme of androgyny that exists in many of the poems found in Selected Poems.

The speaker of the poem describes the gruesome effects of the gas on the man and concludes, despite Horace's pronouncement, that were one to see firsthand the reality of war, one might not repeat mendacious platitudes about the nature of war.

The speaker of the poem addresses a woman who has been slow to respond to his sexual advances.

In his poem, the speaker, lying on the ground at sunset, feels " the rising of the night ".

In the last few lines of the poem, Porphyria is manipulated in much the same way as the speaker was in the first few lines of the poem.

The bird also features, however, in The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point, a poem by the English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, in which the outcast speaker asks: " Could the whip-poor-will or the cat of the glen / Look into my eyes and be bold?

The poem describes the annual awakening of the vegetable and animal world through the " benign post-Lucretian " goddess, which contrasts with the tragic isolation of the silent " I " of the poet / speaker against the desolate background of a ruined city, a vision that prompts Andrea Cuccchiarelli to note the resemblance of the poem's construction to the cruelty of a dream.

The poem is archetypal of Lenau's style and culminates with the speaker dreaming of death as a final escape from emptiness.

While there is no such thing as a " typical " Language poem, certain aspects of the writing of language poets became heavily identified with this group: writing that actively challenged the " natural " presence of a speaker behind the text ; writing that emphasized disjunction and the materiality of the signifier ; and prose poetry, especially in longer forms than had previously been favored by English language writers, and other nontraditional and usually nonnarrative forms.

I am uneasy, however, about his final reference to ' the world-view ...' For the poem as a whole is equally an utterance by a dramatically presented speaker, and none of its statements is proffered for our endorsement as a philosophical generalization of unlimited scope.

The poem could be written as well in the hope that the speaker would be able to see his dying father.

In Edgar Allan Poe's poem " The Raven ," the speaker asks the spectral bird: " Is there balm in Gilead?

The poem concludes with the frustration of the speaker with his dog, expressed as the speaker states: “ In this respect you, unworthy companion of my sad life, resemble the public, to whom one must never present the delicate scents that only exasperate them, but instead give them only dung, chosen with care ” ( Mackenzie 14 ).

That is, to the speaker of Kwak ' wala, the sentence does not contain the " words " ' him-the-otter ' or ' with-his-club ' Instead, the markers-i-da (< span style =" font-variant: small-caps ; text-transform: lowercase "> PIVOT </ span >-' the '), referring to man, attaches not to bəgwanəma (' man '), but instead to the " verb "; the markers-χ-a (< span style =" font-variant: small-caps ; text-transform: lowercase "> ACCUSATIVE </ span >-' the '), referring to otter, attach to bəgwanəma instead of to q ' asa (' otter '), etc.

Typically, the banquet will include a speech from the parents, the best man, the maid of honor, and the guest speaker.

" But such sentences manifest a linguistic problem distinct from that posed by meaningful but ungrammatical ( non )- sentences such as " man the bit sandwich the ," the meaning of which is fairly clear, but no native speaker would accept as well formed.

Among them was Theramenes ; Thucydides refers to him as " one of the leaders of the party that put down the democracy — an able speaker and a man with ideas.

He was a man of finished education, an engaging public speaker, and a man of strong parts.

The underlying implication was that the addressed was a fur, meaning " thief ", although if challenged, the speaker could always claim he simply meant vir, that is, " man ".

Robert was bequeathed the Estates when he married the daughter of William Conolly, a wealthy self-made man and speaker of the Irish Parliament.

At the 50th jubilee dinner of the Commonwealth Parliament, a speaker paid tribute to him as a man " who sat in every Parliament since Federation – and every party too ".

At these meetings, a frequent speaker, Abbé Guillaume Raynal, emphasised the " rights of man ".

A large, slow-speaking man who always read from a prepared text, he impressed his listeners as being more sincere than a glib, extemporaneous speaker.

His father, John Ingersoll, was a Congregationalist minister and a man of mark in his time, a deep thinker, a logical and eloquent speaker, broad minded and generously tolerant of the views of others.

# Tsetsaut ( an Athabaskan language ): last fluent speaker was elderly man recorded in ( 1894 )

Grimond proved to be a man of considerable personal charm and intelligence, with substantial gifts as public speaker and as author.

" He was not a man of many words ," says Clarendon, " and rarely began the discourse or made the first entrance upon any business that was assumed, but a very weighty speaker, and after he had heard a full debate and observed how the House was likely to be inclined, took up the argument and shortly and clearly and craftily so stated it that he commonly conducted it to the conclusion he desired ; and if he found he could not do that, he never was without the dexterity to divert the debate to another time, and to prevent the determining anything in the negative which might prove inconvenient in the future " ( Hist.

With his death, the nation lost a man described by José Martí as " a powerful genius, a strategist, a speaker, a true statesman, perhaps the only one Central America has ever produced ".

Hearing his name being shouted, Rip discovers that the speaker is a man dressed in antiquated Dutch clothing, carrying a keg up the mountain, who requires Rip's help.

The coffin's footboard contains an Atenist prayer that was originally intended for a woman, but was later revised to a refer to a man – with enough grammatical errors to betray the gender of the original speaker.

Weymouth was a man of considerable ability, especially as a speaker.

Ironically and hypocritically, Pol Pot himself was a university-educated man ( albeit a drop-out ) with a taste for French literature and was also a fluent French speaker.

As a popular speaker, he is not inferior to any man in the House.

A man of learning in the law, science, and literature, Rose could read German and speak French fluently ; he was also a noted public speaker.