YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Explication of 2 poems by Martin Espada
Essays 781 - 810
this indicates, in this poem, Larkin perfectly catches the nature of a society that has no idea what awaits it. Previous battles w...
yourself with your atom bomb" (line 5). Even though it is easy to agree with Ginsbergs anti-war sentiment -- the consensus even...
blackboard." The town, then, is basically little more than a school, but a school with grown-ups rather than kid students. ...
for someone who has received a serious emotional trauma, but also that this poem can be interpreted at in more than one way, at mo...
"The rats are underneath the piles," (Eliot 22) in combination with things such as "Money in furs. The boatman smiles" (Eliot 24) ...
In other words, to be a woman outside the accepted societal role for women is not to be a woman. As this indicates, any woman wh...
calling him to "say good-bye" (line 10 Acquainted with the Night). The overall effect of the poem is one of stark loneliness and a...
/ So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep" (lines 3-4 11290). In the next stanza a small boy is upset because all of his hair h...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Bly and Djanikian all wrote famous poems dealing with snow. This analysis looks at Snowflakes by Longf...
future in that image of a baby suggests the continuance of generations into the future. These themes are particularly suggested by...
or sex. Thanks to technology, Whitman waxed poetic about an inspirational East-West cultural and intellectual exchange, with both...
one as far as I could / To where it bent in the undergrowth; / Then took the other, as just as fair, / And having perhaps the bett...
In five pages this research paper presents an analysis of several poems found within the Chinese Book of Songs and also includes a...
she is dead. This interpretation is substantiated in the next stanza when she describes hearing the mourners lift a box, which c...
fulfills his part of the social bargain, which is to "give to young and old all that God has given him." Grendel who is describ...
"obey God; nor trust in him; nor confess that nothing is our own" (White 218). There is nothing, literally nothing, that the narra...
point that poets are generally interested in consciousness and how the natural world might reveal it; personality is not the point...
time she was thirty years old. In Victorian England, it was normal for girls to marry young, and Mary Ann was unusual in that she ...
remains rigid. This poem presents us with a rhyme on every line, further adding to the structural content. We note the first fe...
is wholly attentive to his craft, but he also is privy to the notion that Frost writes only about things that are close to his hea...
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...
war songs, marriage songs and love songs among many more. Throughout the ages, the poems came to known as not merely an example of...
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...
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...
that his novel is not fictitious, but, on the other hand, he also states that everything only happened more or less thus restricti...
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 ...
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...
understand our world and as we seek to communicate with that world. As the poem progresses we surely see elements that speak of...