Definition for I (I'd, I'll, I'm, I've)

I (I'd, I'll, I'm, I've), pron. [OE ic < Gmc. ek.] (webplay: arise, closes, coin, delights, ear, extent, fail, feign, field, fine, friend, gift, glory, holy, join, jot, kind, Latin, learned, letter, long, me, meek, oil, opened, organs, pity, seen, seize, self, sound, us, vain, we, writer, yes). The speaker; first-person nominative personal pronoun.

  1. Refers to a gender neutral observer not named in the text.
  2. Refers to a female observer not named in the text.
  3. Refers to a male observer not named in the text.
  4. Refers to a speaker of enormous power and authority, such as a Queen, poet, artist or unspecified monarch.
  5. Specific language suggesting Dickinson herself.
  6. Refers to a speaker from the grave or beyond.
  7. Refers to a gender neutral child not named in the text.
  8. Refers to a girl.
  9. Refers to a boy.
  10. Refers to a female spouse.
  11. Refers to a female considering marriage.
  12. Refers to a female taking vows or making a covenant.
  13. Refers to a speaker who feels imprisoned.
  14. Refers to a flower named in the text.
  15. Refers to a bird that named in the text.
  16. Refers to a three aspects of selfhood in the speaker.
  17. Refers to a direct quotation spoken by Jesus.
  18. Refers to a speaker pondering the next life.
  19. Refers to a speaker pondering mortality.
  20. Refers to a speaker who reflect on the future.
  21. Refers to a speaker who is royal or upper class.
  22. Refers to a speaker as male and female.
  23. Refers to an aspect of nature, such as the wind or a rain storm.
  24. Refers to a speaker who is volatile or one who lives near a volcano.
  25. Refers to a carpenter.
  26. Refers to a person addressing a mountain colored by a sunset or a sunrise.
  27. Refers to a loaded gun personified as speaking to its owner.
  28. Refers to love personified.
  29. Refers to a lost speaker.
  30. Refers to a speaker described intoxicated by nature.
  31. Refers to speaker displaying the traits of a blacksmith.
  32. Refers to the human spirit personified.
  33. Refers to John the Beloved or John the Baptist.
  34. Refers to Thermopylae personified.
  35. Refers to a syllable whose faith saves it from despair.
  36. Refers to midnight personified.
  37. Refers to the sunrise as majesty personified.
  38. Refers to a fly personified.

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