YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Explication of 2 poems by Martin Espada
Essays 31 - 60
beginning of this stanza creates an image that says to the reader that the nature is hard; it "mows" you down. Society tries to im...
spring of renewal, for the person that has died. This fact is emphasized in the final metaphor, which is addressed in the next fou...
5-8). This juxtaposition of images connects the fever of illness to the fever of lust, which leads into the third stanza and its s...
of four lines known as quatrains, and each stanza comprised of alternating iambs or an unstressed syllable immediately followed by...
As this suggests, this psychologically complex poem portrays a pivotal exchange between two people who are trying to cope with los...
is an odd remark. She picks up on it and asks if hes referring to her as being vacuous and he says no, "it is I who am inane" (Eli...
levels. First of all, a virginal is an early form of the harpsichord that was a preferred instrument among young ladies during the...
misery" (lines 17-18). By the fourth stanza, the positive attitude of the first lines is completely gone, as the speaker compares ...
reader feels privy to the inner reflections of the narrative voice, as he engages in the task of "walking the line" (line 13) and ...
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the s...
men would do, Phaethon does not listen. He is a youth and feels that he can take on anything in the world, or the heavens, and com...
of nature. Yet, inscrutable and mysterious, it is neither wholly good nor evil, but simply part of a greater cycle of life and dea...
in every ban" (line 7). Here again, the footnotes provided by the Norton editors are instructive as inform the reader as to the va...
say in their prose pieces. "Of Chambers as the Cedars/Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof/The Gambrels of the S...
than they preserve" (Killam and Rowe). The poem "Homecoming" which is among his collection which show the corruptive greed ...
hope. The mothers wise voice could be seen to be the voice of experience, conservative ways, of hope seasoned with hard times. The...
prior to Rossettis marriage to Lizzie, however, the poem does not address Lizzie as its subject. Rather, in this poem, Rossetti is...
and lust perhaps. She is an object to be worshipped and talked about, but not a woman who is given a voice. Throughout this poe...
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;...
is connected (18 poems, 1934, 2004). This colored his religious orientation and is evident in the religious symbolism in "Before I...
regards to both cherries and grapes. Her lips as "curved" like cherries and "full" like grape bunches, but they are "sweet" like ...
to see, And what I do in anything, To do it as for thee:" (311) In the next stanza, Herbert comments on mans desire for perfectio...
the Body, that is, as the force that gives the Body motion and life. However, Marvell stipulates in parenthesis that "(A fever cou...
as it relates to obsession and silent women. The poem begins, very pleasantly as the narrator seems to merely be giving the li...
In five pages a poetic explication of Dante's poem is presented in terms of explanation of betrayal as a more punishable sin than ...
In six pages this explication of Spenser's poem argues that it serves as a celebration of Queen and country in terms of 'virtue' a...
renewal [is] not exercised" (Harding 42). Blake wrote, "Earth raisd up her head / From the darkness dread and drear. / Her light...
would be needed if the creature were simply to be taken as male), is female--as the focus on the "slow thighs" suggests--as well a...
This 6 page paper is a detailed explication of Thomas Hardy's poem, The Darkling Thrush. The writer argues that Hardy is using na...
In four pages a poetic explication of this poem by Edward Muir is presented. There is no bibliography included....