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Qim Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary
Poetry
Could you, please, explain the difference between 'voice' and 'persona' in poetry?
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Hello, Qim-- and welcome to English Forums! , who is doing the talking. Thus persona is the "I" of a narrative or the implied speaker of a lyric poem.
- Hello, Qim-- and welcome to English Forums!
- , who is doing the talking.
- Thus persona is the "I" of a narrative or the implied speaker of a lyric poem.
- Sidelight: The term, voice , while often used synonymously with speaker or persona, can also refer to a pervasive presence behind the fictitious voices that speak in a work, or to Aristotle's "ethos," the element in a work that creates a perception by the audience or reader of the moral qualities of the speaker or a character.
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Hello, Qim-- and welcome to English Forums!
I found the following in [url=http://www.poeticbyway.com/glossary.html]THIS GLOSSARY[/url]:
Persona: the speaker or voice of a literary work, i.e., who is doi
I found the following in [url=http://www.poeticbyway.com/glossary.html]THIS GLOSSARY[/url]:
Persona: the speaker or voice of a literary work, i.e., who is doi
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