YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Explication of 2 poems by Martin Espada
Essays 301 - 330
Many disagreed on issues of conversion, or how one becomes a practioner of the Jewish faith. For example, the Orthodox believers p...
sexually anxious and shy. The whole poem, then, is a testimonial to his incapacity to act on his desire to meet someone with whom ...
the simplicity of the life that he foresees for himself, as well as its self-sufficiency. The sense of solitude that Yeats create...
In it, the warrior would ride off to war astride his four-legged companion. But when after the war, instead of treating his faith...
reiterates the point made in the first line, the destruction of his rainbow, was a significant event. Whatever this setback was, t...
in this depression she begins to see things in this wallpaper, a patterned wallpaper, that essentially symbolizes her sense of ent...
that all the pageants play,/Disguysing diversly my troubled wits" (lines 3-4). The poet narrator is the "star" of all the "pageant...
other hand, proposes that time is circular and events are cyclical. The old mystic who dreams is dreaming specifically to create...
turning, hungry, lone,/I looked in windows for the wealth/I could not hope to own (lines 5-8). Dickinson now clearly classifies he...
In four pages this poetic explication focuses on the contrast between Victorian era religious conventions and Dickinson's individu...
womens education and his ultimate hostility towards female intellectualism influenced his daughters choice of secular isolation to...
gives the words "cultured hell" added significance since, as a poet, McKay has mastered this classical form; yet, it is inherently...
into the woods on such a cold, dark night. Is it merely to look at the scenery, or is there another more profound reason? In the...
gives the poem an intimate feel, as if the narrator is confessing youthful transgressions to a friend. "That summer in Culpepper, ...
nature in which the numbers play a role. She writes, "I thought of dried leaves/drifting spate after spate/out of the forests/th...
stand around jostling, jockeying for place, small fights...
condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...
so based on the dialogue of the narrator that it does not allow the woman a voice, and represents a narrator who is incredibly, an...
In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at Great Expectations. Explications of quotes are used to give insights into themes. P...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at Arendt and Foucault. An explication is made which reconciles their basic philosophie...
dew that falls at night as weeping for the demise of day, "For thou must die" (Herbert line 4). The second stanza focuses on the...
value into ultimately empty goals; this is indicated by the comparison of Gatsbys quest for Daisy with the "American dream" itself...
the entire monologue with a sense of poetics, inviting one to study the words more deeply in search of a hidden meaning. This idea...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Alexie’s “How to Write the Great American Indian Novel”. An explication is carried ...
why he became an addict; he also express great uncertainty about his life after hes released from prison (Class lecture on "Sonnys...
tells his readers to "undrape," because, to him, no one is guilty of shame or worthy of being discarded (line 145). Everyone and e...
few lines further on: "he...ventured on foot, attired in his misfitting clothes, an object marked out for observation, into the m...
in the literature, making it difficult for research to validate the pedagogy" (Barrett). It is her basic purpose in writing this p...
hope for ever having his love requited has evaporated, but he persists in his quest regardless because it has become too late to b...
the children, "It was festival, carnival" (line 15). These contradictory images to how house fires are generally perceived are mad...