YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Explication of 2 poems by Martin Espada
Essays 751 - 780
to the United States when she was seven. Her poetry then is an attempt to reconcile the extremes that come from living in two cult...
of the least attractive aspects of a nations character. However, after a country has been a colony for a time, that state of being...
William Blakes "The Divine Image" have little in common, as the first poem relates a mystical enchantment of a knight with a super...
reflects both the poet and the readers changing perspectives that can only be achieved through a rational and nonprejudiced examin...
that this is "Her hardest hue to hold." The budding of plants at this time in the early spring is the shortest part of the seas...
Taken" and William Staffords "Traveling Through the Dark" are both poems about lifes journey and the choices that confront each in...
does the reader surmise that the author is wholly attentive to his craft, but he also is privy to the notion that Wordsworth write...
"The West Country" from an operative structure standpoint, it is perhaps even more useful to analyze this poem from a thematic sta...
war songs, marriage songs and love songs among many more. Throughout the ages, the poems came to known as not merely an example of...
like a walk in the park. The poem describes how tired a person can feel while working hard, and laboring at ones love. Though a mu...
serves to draw the readers attention to this word and give it added emphasis. They break up the lines in such a way that mimics th...
(line 5). As this illustrates, the second stanza builds the tension even further as this comment intimates that this death is par...
that his novel is not fictitious, but, on the other hand, he also states that everything only happened more or less thus restricti...
he mocks. It is after all a story of a lock of hair stolen while a young woman sleeps. What can be simpler? What can be less impo...
enjoying the fact that many people have bleeding hearts from love. The narrator is clearly an individual who has been harmed by...
But, Frost never treats it as an overpowering tragedy for the participants, who still live, continue without looking back it seems...
hilltop is now shown as much as it is suggested by two rounded green shapes in the lower half of the painting. The dancers barely ...
understand our world and as we seek to communicate with that world. As the poem progresses we surely see elements that speak of...
An analytic interpretation of this poem is presented in five pages with a discussion of loneliness and home themes that are featur...
sooner will his race be run, / And nearer hes to setting" (lines 7-8). In this manner, Herrick sets up an ever-increasing sense of...
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 ...
"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...
this as the focus changes from nature and subtly brings in the narrator: "I am too absent-spirited to count;/ The loneliness inclu...
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...
that Beowulf meets Grendel, but out of family ties and vows of allegiance to the Queen. Even Grendels mother gets into the act. T...
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 ...
A relevant phrase in literature that relates to the overall concept of good versus evil in Blakes work is that of the human...