A World Made of Atoms

What is the narrator point of view in the poem, A World Made of Atoms?

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The vast majority of English poems are written in the first-person present-tense. Technically, this poem is too. It uses present-tense verb forms, indicating the poem’s events are taking place as they are being described. However, rather than using the first-person pronoun set “I/me/myself” to indicate the presence of a single speaker whose perspective shapes the poem, Cavendish relies exclusively on the second-person plural: the pronouns we, our, and ours. Even then, these terms appear only in the building metaphor of lines 5-10. For the most part, this is a poem in third person. When the first person, briefly, appears, it is plural, speaking from the perspective of human beings in general, rather than from the perspective of any speaker in particular.

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A World Made of Atoms, BookRags