YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Explication of 2 poems by Martin Espada
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"The West Country" from an operative structure standpoint, it is perhaps even more useful to analyze this poem from a thematic sta...
Robinsons poem, Marie Antoinettes Lamentation, the language and the way in which she uses it conveys more than mere description, i...
woods, peopled with the wild creatures of the forest, witches and all sort of magical folk, including Satan, himself. Tam stops to...
their ultimate dream. And, the reference to the show indicates an imaginative perspective of life in general. There is an imaginat...
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...
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 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...
the title. The alliteration between "caffeinated" and "concrete" emphasizes the rolling rhythm of the line. The reference to caffe...
holding a moth that it has caught. The spider holds it up. The flower, the spider, and the moth together represent life and death....
noble role in society, and reflects his attributes and responsibilities. First, there is the pearl, symbolic of natural perfectio...
the "flow " of the work as well as a connecting device.) The third stanza says that they passed a schoolhouse, then fields of "g...
as opposed to being naturally inherited. This poem typifies the poems that are included in Blakes, Songs of Innocence, in...
next lines are an old reference to the celebration of the Annunciation which the Orthodox Catholic Church practiced. For example, ...
of striving to attain immortality, just as Jesus himself did. Over and over again in our lives we are tested, and each choice we ...
said that, however, this is not a book to simply be shunted off to the used bookstore. For all its problems, Nine Horses is still ...
a hook to bait a desired fish. But no competitive fisherman is eager to share his secrets for landing the big one. A poet is no ...
gloves" (Auden 8). Tone As one critic states, "The tone of a poem is roughly equivalent to the mood it creates in the reader" ...
the first two lines in each verse rhyme. The mood is one of absolute freedom, which stresses that the things that society values -...
part of them." The "roasting" of Louie is stated as being symbolic, but Dickson describes a quite vivid scene that leads the read...
Im flesh" ((Komunyakaa 3-5). These lines illustrate that no matter how much time has passed since the Vietnam War this narrator ca...
conflicts "as a woman and as a poet" (Barker 3). She manipulates thought patterns through her mastery of poetic structure, such a...
also great/ And would suffice" (Frost 6-9). In this we see something we would perhaps normally associate with fire, that being hat...
The tone of the poem builds from this beginning: "you should at times walk on,/ away from your friends ways,/ go where the scorned...
night returning, anew began ruthless murder; he recked no whit, / firm in his guilt, of the feud and crime" (II 12-22). When Hrot...
which is extremely faulty, shows that she is easily corrupted. Her first instinct on eating of the forbidden fruit is to entice ...
focus of the poem is on how the anger of the narrator as a corruptive influence that turns him into a murderer. As this illustrate...
is self-contradictory" (Davies 86). As envisioned by William Blake, God is not to blame for the good and evil in the world becaus...
a spell to make them balance" (Frost 16-18). In this we again see an imagery that allows us to perhaps comprehend the composition ...
matter? Good-looking, of course, dark hair, rather matted; the reddish beard several shades lighter; with very deep lines round th...
song of the ocean and the song of the woman. A comparison is offered of the songs, that both make a...