Poem Analysis: Night Voices
Answer the following question after reading the poem: Why is the speaker in the poem afraid?
Be sure your paragraph includes:
- A topic sentence that offers a clear and compelling answer to the question
- At least two brief and smoothly incorporated pieces of evidence that illustrate and support your claim
- A concluding sentence that elegantly wraps up the paragraph
"Night Voices"
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Father, father, who is that a-whispering?
Who is it who whispers in the wood?
You say it is the breeze
As it sighs among the trees,
But there’s someone who whispers in the wood.
Father, father, who is that a-murmuring?
Who is it who murmurs in the night?
You say it is the roar
Of the wave upon the shore,
But there’s someone who murmurs in the night.
Father, father, who is that who laughs at us?
Who is it who chuckles in the glen?
Oh, father, let us go,
For the light is burning low,
And there’s somebody laughing in the glen.
Father, father, tell me what you’re waiting for,
Tell me why your eyes are on the door.
It is dark and it is late,
But you sit so still and straight,
Ever staring, ever smiling, at the door.
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The speaker in the poem is afraid of the Night Voices. Through the poem, we can see how he call his father, asking him who is a-whispering and a-murmuring. Although the speaker was fearful, the father was sitting “still and straight, ever staring, ever smi...
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