A speaker and author are almost never the same. Be careful of that word "almost" I just wrote. Usually the author is not the speaker of his or her poem, so we don't refer to the speaker as the author ever. Err on the side of caution and assume that the speaker is separate from the author. It is important when demonstrating your understanding of the poem.
Why is it that we so often want the author to also be the speaker? Do we want to assume that every speaker of every poem is a poet? Then why would a poet write poems -- shouldn't they just give speeches?
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I think why we want the poet to be the speaker is that we want to knw the poets feeling, we want to know for a fact that this poet thinks this.I dont agree about 'why they should just give speeches instead' because poems are more literary and more like art than just words put together
speeches are also art, just a different form. anything that is "just words put together" is art - but usually the person has intentions with the way the words are put together -- especially in speeches.
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