ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The speaker of a poem is the voice of the poem, similar to a narrator in fiction. The poet might not necessarily be the speaker of the poem. Sometimes the poet will write from a different perspective, or use the voice of a specific person, as in a persona poem.

Detailed explanation-2: –A narrator tells a story(not always the author)-The speaker is the one who is relaying the poem to the reader.-In stories, you have a “narrator"; in poems, you have a “speaker."

Detailed explanation-3: -narrator, one who tells a story. In a work of fiction the narrator determines the story’s point of view. If the narrator is a full participant in the story’s action, the narrative is said to be in the first person. A story told by a narrator who is not a character in the story is a third-person narrative.

Detailed explanation-4: -The narrative voice is the perspective of a story. This can be told as a first-person or third-person narrative, and it’s usually in simple terms like “he said” and “she answered.” The three types of narrative voice are first person, second person, and third person.