...Jan M. Padios Jan M. Padios is an assistant professor of American studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is currently working on an ethnography of customer service call centers in the Philippines. Chow Rey , Not Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging...

... that gives shape to illness and loss is Alan Chong Lau's “my ship does not need a helmsman.” It adopts the metaphor of journey to speak about the course of an illness and the prospect of death. The speaker is dying far from home. In short lines the poem creates discontinuities even as it opens long vistas...

... the speech of the other, and as such, it is like Judith Butler’s rhetorical “scene of address” in which a listener judges the speaker as a recognizable member of society, or not. The ranter’s language moves outside the domain of speakability, risking misunderstanding in order to confront the limitations...

... the labor of the automata (116-17). Burke's modernist hope for the dole is echoed in an ironically diminished form in Ashbery's "Soonest Mended," the speaker of which—a mildly bohemian member of a generation that never "graduates from college" and will not "grow up"—has been reduced to "learning...

... a direct effect upon Dickinson’s sense of the possibilities for formal flexibility in short- lined verse, and her construction of dramatic speakers either manifesting qualities of the ballad speaker in being innocently wise or in self- consciously envying such a state in another person...

... poet and voice are considered as one), or speaker (in dramatic or hybrid lyrical-dramatic forms where poet and character are assumed to differ). It is common in romanticism's reflective tradition for either a persona or a speaker to be largely preoccupied with their own thoughts. When...

... of the workers, an insistence couched not in “amounts” but in an “evenness” the speaker alone recognizes: Workmen and workwomen! Were all educations practical and ornamental well display’d out of me, what would it amount to? Were I as the head teacher, charitable...

... feature moments of convening, where assorted characters in rural environs (shepherds or their equivalents) converse; some of these poems, in turn, along with a number of his lyrics, feature moments of repose, with only a solitary speaker. These pastoral modes engage such themes as community, dis...

... the circumstances of their creation. What, according to her, makes a poem a testimony is the existential situation in which the author was at the time of its creation—regardless of what the poem is about, who its speaker is, and to whom it is addressed. Hence, her anthology includes poems that read as eyewitness...

... final year back to blame of Gonne for her political beliefs and actions and her unrequited love. Bernard Levine asserts that the speaker in the "Helen poems" "looks to the figure of Helen to resolve his quarrel with country and countrymen" (84). In doing so, though, we will see that Yeats...

... "fearfully and wonderously" (139.14 and following), the speaker suddenly changes the subject: "Oh that thou would- est slay, O God, the wicked & bloody men, to whom I say, Depart ye from me" (139:19)—as if, quips C. S. Lewis, "it were surprising that such a simple remedy for human ills had...

... of Feinman’s “Relic” with Sonnet 49, a closer examination of Shakespeare’s poem may provide a useful 204 GENRE framework for understanding Feinman’s. Shakespeare’s almost impossibly slip- pery speaker seems at first to perform a thorough self- abjection, confessing his own...

... eucharistic controversies by Kimberly Johnson, Sophie Read, Ryan Netzley, and others, Prakas argues that the “metaphorical interaction” (72) of speaker and reader(s) in these poems fuels an interpretative process in which the speakers’ meaning—and even their being—is repeatedly transformed or regenerated...

... and Œconomical Designs . London : Lawrence . Fay Elizabeth A. 1995 . Becoming Wordsworthian: A Performative Aesthetics . Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press . Ferguson Frances . 2010 . “Writing and Orality around 1800: ‘Speakers,’ ‘Readers,’ and Wordsworth's ‘The Thorn...

... narrative analogs for the figurative work of the clichéd expression “Mixed Feelings,” much as Roussel does with his animated corpses. Ashbery begins his meditation on photographic and literary cliché by evok- ing the photo’s blurred contours and lack of a clear origin. The photo, the speaker tells...

... and now (in the kingdom of heaven within us). In a world after Darwin and Marx, the use of the pastoral mode in Frost is a grappling with the problem of weakness itself, so it is no wonder many of his poems present situations where the characters or speakers must deal with situations that threaten...

... the moral balance disrupted by the speaker's initial admission of "my negligence" (318) in letting such a valued but helpless creature venture into such grave, overwhelming danger. It is the gap, the loss in their lives, not the ultimate value or significance of it, that occasions...

.... At the same time, like Heaney, Brooks is concerned with the particularities of the speakers that she imagines in her poetry, emphasizing their individual rather than their representative qualities. By way of example, Fogarty reads closely well-known poems such as “We Real Cool” and “The Sundays of Satin-Legs...

... them on, sealing off speaker and nation so that on read- ing “Martial Cadenza” we find them “still walking in a present of [their] own.” Graham’s “Spelled from the Shadows Aubade” takes up the words and the formal repetitions of “Martial Cadenza,” and brings them into a different circumstance...

... or the travel industry. One example of this ambiguity can be found in “She was too good for this life.” Bristow ( 1994 : 178) has argued that the line mocks the woman: “First, the speaker indicates that—as Larkin himself noted on the spoken-word record of this poem—that the young woman is a symbol of ‘universal...