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Who is the speaker? Is the person male or female?
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Does the voice speak in first person (I, me, my, mine), for example, John Berryman's "Huffy Henry"?
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Does the speaker talk directly to a second person, as with Adrienne Rich's "Diving into the Wreck"?
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Is the voice meant to be universal — for example, applicable to either sex at any time or place?
Names of Characters
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Does the name of a character suggest extra meaning, such as Eben Flood (an alcoholic) in Edwin Arlington Robinson's "Mr. Flood's Party" and T. S. Eliot's prissy protagonist in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?
