YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Explication of 2 poems by Martin Espada
Essays 301 - 330
to an era gone by as well as to the present time. The poem begins "Black reapers with the sound of steel on stones Are sharpening...
The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;" (Yeats PG). This describes the inner workings of...
understands that youth and life cannot remain, for "nothing gold can stay." Metaphor When we take the poem in its entirety, and...
deal of depth. Sonny is put in jail and one can imagine that growth takes place there. While it seems that this would occur, and t...
In five pages this paper presents a poetic explication of the work by Langston Hughes in a discussion of what exactly 'land of the...
lost prior to being sent from his home (1995). The camera is suddenly outside focusing on smoke rising form the chimney and then ...
elements used by the author. The work begins as follows: BEHOLD her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reapi...
wanted the poem to leave a profound impression; for that reason, it is subject to the interpretation of the individual. I...
uses is "disturb." the author is clearly shaken by this presence of someone else. This "someone" is likely his sister with whom he...
formula for success. Eugenes aristocratic name soon opens some doors for him. Madame Beausant is a member of high society and a ...
end up doing the same thing after person A figures out what B is doing. If Person A does not have a dominant strategy, then if B ...
May new buds and flowers shall bring; (I)/ Ah! why has happiness--no second Spring? (I)" (Smith 1-14). As we can note, at least...
reflect an attitude of equality instead of segregation between blacks and whites; however, inasmuch as much as humanity has succes...
the simplicity of the life that he foresees for himself, as well as its self-sufficiency. The sense of solitude that Yeats create...
condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...
stand around jostling, jockeying for place, small fights...
nature in which the numbers play a role. She writes, "I thought of dried leaves/drifting spate after spate/out of the forests/th...
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 three pages, the writer looks at Alexie’s “How to Write the Great American Indian Novel”. An explication is carried ...
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...
few shots of a good looking, blue-eyed young man. There is the glare of the sunlight which is rather obvious. One shot shows this ...
stresses and also spondaic emphasis on the phrase "this years snow." Still other lines mix and match rhythm patterns so that the o...
-- "The Count your Masters known munificence/ Is ample warrant that no just preference/ Of mine for dowry will be disallowed" (lin...
"temperate" is not exactly a great complement. Therefore, Shakespeare adds to this in the next line stating that "rough" winds can...
action that the people indulged in completely by their own volition, which puts a new slant on the described behavior; and, also c...
of art that lives forever and offers youth and vitality and passion. One critic indicates that, "This contrasts the sensual world...
the soul from the confines of the earth and into the far reaches of the heavens. In its spiritual form the soul is no longer conf...
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...