{"id":2883,"date":"2012-07-19T08:50:35","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T13:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=2883"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:50","slug":"a-poet-by-any-other-name-who-is-the-speaker-and-does-it-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/19\/a-poet-by-any-other-name-who-is-the-speaker-and-does-it-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"A poet by any other name. Who is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the speaker\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and does it matter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/arts\/classic_poems\/2012\/07\/ben_jonson_s_on_my_first_son_does_the_speaker_matter_.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/120716_POEM_Benjamin_JonsonEX.jpg.CROP_.article250-medium.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a way, these passages [of Whitman&#8217;s] present a challenge to the modern academic terminology of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the speaker.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d In this critical tradition, students may discuss the words not of John Donne but of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Donne&#8217;s speaker,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and even (though this sounds more peculiar) not the words of Emily Dickinson but of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Dickinson&#8217;s speaker.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Useful though the notion of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the speaker\u00e2\u20ac\u009d may be sometimes, it is challenged by certain poems.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/arts\/classic_poems\/2012\/07\/ben_jonson_s_on_my_first_son_does_the_speaker_matter_.html\">Ben Jonson&#8217;s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153On My First Son\u00e2\u20ac\u009d: Does \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the speaker\u00e2\u20ac\u009d matter? &#8211; Slate Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Pinsky, former US poet laureate, writing on &#8216;the speaker&#8217; problem in literature and poetry; specifically, Ben Jonson&#8217;s poem \u00e2\u20ac\u0153On My First Son.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,667,669,666,17,668],"class_list":["post-2883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-author","tag-benjaminjonson","tag-perpsective","tag-pinsky","tag-poetry","tag-speaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2883"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10027,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions\/10027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}