A person or character whose experiences, feelings, and thoughts are expressed in a poem. The speaker can be the poet who tells about his or her own experiences.
Example
With an evil eye that stares you down
and a bulbous warty nose,
a furrowed brow, a nasty scowl,
and old outdated clothes,
my costume is the scariest
the world has ever seen.
I’m not an ogre, ghost, or ghoul:
I’m a teacher for Halloween.
The speaker of the poem above is a teacher.
Significance
The speaker in a poem allows us to who is telling the story. The speaker can change the tone of the poem if the speaker is the poet.
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