YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Explication of 2 poems by Martin Espada
Essays 721 - 750
says Sandburg, none of that matters; what matters is that the grass will eventually cover up the battlefields, the dead, the blood...
powerful and intense poem, in relationship to the struggles of the African American people, that it has been adapted into song (Af...
my brain. Never show fear (Free verse) Animals and small children know when youre afraid. They growl and bite, or cry and fight ...
the best relationship to use in the poem. Hamlets relationship with Gertrude, his mother, is even more problematic, because he tu...
While the couple is not married in the legal sense to each other (their bonds of matrimony are with others), it becomes obvious th...
First, there is the surface level, that he was walking and had to decide which path to take to get to his destination. But at a mu...
love between two ordinary people: "Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason, drawn randomly from millions but convinced it h...
are not red as coral; her breasts are not white but dun colored; her hair is coarse and wiry (on her head; Shakespeare being Shake...
beauty of nature and the insights it provides can unite the two. The primary focus of Tintern Abbey is the temporal or physical w...
human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my ...
of a child. 1. "I a child and thou a lamb" (Blake 670). B. Dickinsons narrator is a dying woman. 1. "The Eyes around-had wrung the...
likens the process of death to an innocuous fly buzzing. In other words, instead of being a mysterious occurrence, it is a proces...
implication is that anything signed by the hand of the king carries the weight of law. Sir Spence has to obey. The letter arrives ...
the title is clearly a powerful statement and use of words. Another critic dissects Dickinsons poem and offers the following: "The...
to have a relationship. The narrator tells us that he loves his father, and indicates that he cant handle his alcohol either (hint...
song of the ocean and the song of the woman. A comparison is offered of the songs, that both make a...
A relevant phrase in literature that relates to the overall concept of good versus evil in Blakes work is that of the human...
was such time as it was appropriate to say goodbye and release them to adult life as defined by that society. In this poem, Sapp...
seemed inseparable. A true friend, in other words, wishes for another person the highest possible good. This sort of friendship i...
is left out: herself. "Shine on me, sunshine Rain on me, rain...
about war. It is about this soldiers experience when he began to shoot at an enemy soldier--who was of course shooting back--and ...
talk that he had "hastened his wifes death to write the poem" (Allen 3). There can be little doubt that the poem itself is obvi...
her sister as "buddies in wartime" and the stairwell is described as a "shell hole." Like soldiers, Olds states that she and her ...
this as the focus changes from nature and subtly brings in the narrator: "I am too absent-spirited to count;/ The loneliness inclu...
"Mending Wall" we have a very powerful look at what self reliance can do to an individual. It presents us with a picture of what s...
that Beowulf meets Grendel, but out of family ties and vows of allegiance to the Queen. Even Grendels mother gets into the act. T...
viewing this painting this particular writer feels and thinks many things. There is a powerful boldness to the strokes, which are ...
so strong, that Browning anticipates that it will follow her after death (line 14). Scottish poet Robert Burns also relied...
of the word I is that the decision for anyones life is their own. This decision was not reached by conferring with any other soul ...
emphasis on "mind-forged" shows that these are mental attitudes rather than physical chains, but their effect on human freedom is ...