Speaker

Definition: The narrator of the poem, but mostly the speaker identity is kept unknown .

Example:      I am a nutty guy who likes dolphins.
                        I wonder what I, and the world, will be like in the year 2000.
                        I hear silence pulsing in the middle of the night.
                        I see a dolphin flying up to the sky.
                        I want the adventure of life before it passes me by.
                        I am a nutty guy who likes dolphins

          ( In this poem the speaker's identity is kept unknown, but is told from a point of view)

Significance: Speaker doesn't have to necessarily be the poet, or it can be unknown at all. It is very important to have a point of view and sometime needed for the poem to be mysterious.