YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Explication of 2 poems by Martin Espada
Essays 811 - 840
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...
the title. The alliteration between "caffeinated" and "concrete" emphasizes the rolling rhythm of the line. The reference to caffe...
"The rats are underneath the piles," (Eliot 22) in combination with things such as "Money in furs. The boatman smiles" (Eliot 24) ...
seems to address in her works include that of lost culture and a sense of longing to return to a time which is perceived to be mor...
Robinsons poem, Marie Antoinettes Lamentation, the language and the way in which she uses it conveys more than mere description, i...
this woman is not pushy, but rather has very definite feelings for this man. She feels a connection with him that his self-possess...
and perhaps anything else this artistic individual had to offer, was taken and used by others. As a result, this individual decide...
and his first brush with death came at the age of eight, when his father, a livery-stableman by trade, died of a fractured skull a...
more likely that they will remember and personally value the days of their youth. Byron takes a strong stand in representing thi...
observing children at their studies. However, the second stanza offers a sharp contrast to this opening, as Yeats states that he d...
played slightly louder, i.e. piano. The rhythm of the piece would be uniform 4/4 time, but the overall effect of the rhythm would...
obviously take the most tragic of subjects and place the words in a way that would make us, the reader, want more, and yet cause u...
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...
point that poets are generally interested in consciousness and how the natural world might reveal it; personality is not the point...
/ 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...
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 ...
future in that image of a baby suggests the continuance of generations into the future. These themes are particularly suggested by...
"obey God; nor trust in him; nor confess that nothing is our own" (White 218). There is nothing, literally nothing, that the narra...
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...
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...
or sex. Thanks to technology, Whitman waxed poetic about an inspirational East-West cultural and intellectual exchange, with both...
In six pages this paper analyzes the classic elements of the poems 'Letter to F...,' 'Lenore,' and 'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe....
In five pages this research paper presents an analysis of several poems found within the Chinese Book of Songs and also includes a...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Bly and Djanikian all wrote famous poems dealing with snow. This analysis looks at Snowflakes by Longf...
A 5 page examination of the Adrienne Rich poem. The experience of marriage as it is affected by constriction, theme, tone, narrat...
In six pages this paper compares the influences and poetry styles of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath. Six sources are cited in t...
In five pages this essay analyzes the theme of loneliness as it is presented in 'The Whitsun Weddings,' 'Toad's Revisited,' and 'M...