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Who Is The Speaker And What Do You Know About His Age And Background?

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P 6 Answer the following 13 questions offering specific proof of your answers. Remember in many cases, the speaker is not the poet but a persona the poet has adopted, a voice through which the poem is written. In evaluating the speaker of each poem, think about the following questions. What is he/she like? Can you imagine his/her age? social standing? "The Chimney Sweeper" 1. Who is the speaker and what do you know about his age and background? The speaker is a young boy who sweeps chimneys. The speaker’s mother died when he was very young. The speaker was then sold by his father before he could speak properly and since then has been cleaning chimneys and living homeless. 2. To whom is he speaking and why? The speaker is speaking to a boy who is new to chimney cleaning. The new comer may be a bit nervous about what is ahead. The speaker tells the …show more content…

What is the message Sandburg (not the speaker) is trying to get across? The message Carl Sandburg is trying to get across is that no matter where the battle field a lot of people will die during a war. Also, as time passes those who die will be forgotten. "Those Winter Sundays" 10. How old do you think the speaker is in this poem? The speaker if the poem is an adult. The speaker speaks as if he is remember a time from his past when his father would get up early and light a fire to get the house warm. 11. What do we learn about his father? How did he show his love for his family? The reader learns that the father is very hard working. In the first stanza speaker highlighted that the father’s hands were cracked and ache from working hard during the week. The father showed his love for his family by getting up early and lighting a fire so that the house would be warm by the time the other family members woke up. The father also polished the speaker’s best shoes for him. 12. Why does the speaker repeat "What did I know"? How have the feelings of the speaker toward his father changed over the

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