Question

Identify the speaker, tone, setting, audience, and rhyme scheme of a poem

http://faculty.smu.edu/bakewell/BAKEWELL/texts/betterdeath.html

Answer 1

Hey there!
Welcome to openstudy! :)
Have you started the assignment yet?

Answer 2

Yes. I paraphrased the poem which is part of my assignment, but I struggle with identifying tone and audience. Please help :)

Answer 3

I mean the tone can be interpreted difftent by anyone to me its peaceful and relaxed to you it might seem as a diffrent thing :/

Answer 4

I might just put that because that's what I thought of and I also thought it was optimistic. But it had a vibe of like a great man giving wisdom.

Answer 5

I definitely am not sure of the speaker as I'm thinking between the poem writer or the rose...

Answer 6

Im thinking the same so lets go with peaceful
Im not sure of the audience :(

Answer 7

For the audience Im thinking of Celia and the readers. I'm not sure of the speaker though. Would it be the poet or the rose?

Answer 8

Im not sure T_T im thinking roe the poet must've wrote it for rose

Answer 9

Lol. I guess I'll just leave that part to that.

If it's no trouble though could you help me with annotations? Like the line # and notes on it whether it's a simile, metaphor, etc. or just something like an explanation.

Answer 10

LEts stick to writing an explanation of each stanza :) start explaining ill fill in the holes after words

Answer 11

First stanza would be a setup of the setting and imagery of the rose
Second stanze - at the beginning, a personification, and the rest are are words of advice.
Third stanza - continuation of the advice. First line is a metaphor to death.
Fourth stanza - last part of the advice.

Lol Im so bad at this...

Answer 12

Be more specific rather than give general info try again :)

Answer 13

Umm... could you do first stanza to start me up?

Answer 14

This stanza has alot of figurative language such as....

Answer 15

First stanza has imagery (line 2-3) and personification (line 4).

Answer 16

that looks great :) elaborate on it now

Answer 17

Like explain it?

Answer 18

yes you need to explain what it is you are talking about

Answer 19

yes you need to explain what it is you are talking about

Answer 20

Alright. Something like. The imagery in the first stanza shows what the rose looks like by giving it the characteristics of colors. The personification would be the last line as a rose cannot "joyfully" expose its face.

Answer 21

Yes! THATS PERFECT :D

Answer 22

Nice :)

Answer 23

Thank for helping me out. I think I'll do the rest on the paper :)

Answer 24

Haha you are welcome tag me if u need anything buddy :)