Answer: The speech that your are talking about is about the need for volunteers to serve in the army at the time.
Explanation: The reason I can summarize this is because the first thing he said is "the proclamation calling for volunteers to serve in the army of the united states." which is basically a fancy way of saying he is obligated by his country to ask for more people to start joining the army. The second thing is that he asks for at least 125,000 soldiers to join to fight for the cause, in order to protect the homeland. Then he signs off by saying that he will immediately be contacting the war department to check how many people listened to his request.
This statement is false. Chaucer (c. 1343 - 1400) actually wrote in Middle English, a version of English spoken from about 1150 to 1450. Before 1150 the language that we call Old English was spoken. This language bears little resemblance to modern English.
Writers and poets use personification to bring inanimate things to life, so that their nature and actions are understood in a better way. Because it is easier for us to relate to something that is human or that possesses human traits.
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