Also although the hands are feeding the children they are not solving the root of the problem at hand. Who is the audience of the Holy Thursday, Experience, poem? The intended audience would probably be the middle class and the church because he is critiquing the institution of the church and how the children are being used by usurious hands. Other characters are babes, usurious hands, or the old wise men, and poor children. Who is the speaker in the Holy Thursday, Experience, poem? What other characters, if any, are in the poem, and what is their relationship to the speaker? The speaker is the narrator.

The audience of the poem are the middle class because trying to show how institutions like the church and state are keeping the Earth in a fallen state. Who is the audience of the Earth's Answer poem? The audience to the Earth is the Bard. Another character is the F/father, whom the Earth blames for her jealousy.

When the earth speaks, she is responding to the Bard. Who is the speaker in the Earth's Answer poem? What other characters, if any, are in the poem, and what is their relationship to the speaker? In the first stanza a narrator is speaking, then the earth speaks. Intended audience is probably those familiar with the Adam and Eve story and the middle class who can insight change. Who is the audience of the Introduction, Experience, poem? The audience is the reader and then later the Earth when the Bard is speaking. Another character in the poem is the earth, and the Bard is calling the Earth to return from possibly a fallen state. Who is the speaker in the Introduction, Experience, poem? What other characters, if any, are in the poem, and what is their relationship to the speaker? The narrator is the speaker at first, then the Bard is the speaker. Who is the audience of the Holy Thursday, Innocence, poem? The intended audience would probably be the middle class and the church because he is critiquing the institution of the church and how much their 'giving' is doing for these children. Other characters in the poem are the orphaned children on their way to Holy Thursday mass and the aged, wise men who are the orphans' donors.

Who is the speaker in the Holy Thursday, Innocence, poem? What other characters, if any, are in the poem, and what is their relationship to the speaker? The narrator is the speaker.

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