The present manuscript aims to
explore the attitude and emotion/motivation of the author/agent, David Ray,
necessary for the creation of Sam’s Book,
the creation of his symbolic Metaphor for Loss through a close look at the
speaker/agent as defined by Burke within the technical form of the poems. The
paper is divided into four sections that give the methods of the analysis in
the introduction, give the author’s use of language throughout the poems, give
examples of the author’s memory of events, and in the last and longest section
give the author’s motivations and the observer/ critic’s conclusions about
the creation of the poems.
Burke, K. (2001)
From
“Language
as Symbolic Action”.
The Rhetorical Tradition Readings from Classical Times to the Present. 2nd Edition,
Eds.Bizzel, Boston.
Burke, K. (2001) From
“A
Rhetoric of Motives”. The
Rhetorical Tradition Readings from Classical Times to the Present. 2nd
Edition,
Eds.Bizzel, Patricia, and Bruce Herzberg. Bedford/St. Martin’s, Boston.