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Speaker and Tone for Purity

The speaker in Billy Collins’ Purity is a character expressing, with very graphic expressions, his mental attitude towards writing; he feels as if his writing should be pure “completely rinsed of the carnal,/ uncontaminated by the preoccupations of the body.” We do not know if the speaker is the poet or a fictional author Collins made for this poem. With the speaker’s purity of writing at stake, the literal actions of taking off his flesh and organs create a very animated poem and thus have a bearing on the reader. As the poem continues, the speaker’s story of purifying himself to a point where his writing is fundamental and not including of any worldly problems is told, thus making this poem a narrative. Collins uses very short a

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