YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Explication of 2 poems by Martin Espada
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the title is clearly a powerful statement and use of words. Another critic dissects Dickinsons poem and offers the following: "The...
implication is that anything signed by the hand of the king carries the weight of law. Sir Spence has to obey. The letter arrives ...
so strong, that Browning anticipates that it will follow her after death (line 14). Scottish poet Robert Burns also relied...
viewing this painting this particular writer feels and thinks many things. There is a powerful boldness to the strokes, which are ...
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 ...
the speaker--and the reader -- know that the answer is God. By using a question, Blake is questioning why a benevolent deity would...
has overtaken their owners" (Bartleby.com). In many ways "The poem throws an interesting light on the close nature of the relation...
The reply that "John" gives begin the next stanza, which is "drive, he sd, for/ christs sake, look / out where yr going" (lines 10...
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...
A relevant phrase in literature that relates to the overall concept of good versus evil in Blakes work is that of the human...
about war. It is about this soldiers experience when he began to shoot at an enemy soldier--who was of course shooting back--and ...
to have a relationship. The narrator tells us that he loves his father, and indicates that he cant handle his alcohol either (hint...
"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...
this as the focus changes from nature and subtly brings in the narrator: "I am too absent-spirited to count;/ The loneliness inclu...
An analytic interpretation of this poem is presented in five pages with a discussion of loneliness and home themes that are featur...
is left out: herself. "Shine on me, sunshine Rain on me, rain...
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 ...
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...
In five pages this paper examines how lines thirteen to twenty represent Edward Thomas' poem 'Lob' and also analyzes poetic devisi...
In five pages this paper discusses the sonnet form of this poem, who it is addressed to, meaning through division of octave and se...
In five pages Tennyson's views of death are considered with an examination of his poems 'Charge of the Light Brigade' and 'Ulysses...
This 5 page paper compares and contrasts the poems Comedian as Letter C by Wallace Stevens and The Journey of the Magi by T.S. Eli...
In a paper consisting of 7 pages Milton's 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' is compared with 'Christmas' by Herbert. There ar...
In a paper consisting of 5 pages Emily Dickinson's poem in terms of the poet's attitudes and feelings about time are analyzed. Th...
Goldsmith, who sees Beowulf as being addressed to the "powerful" and designed to "warn them of the dangers attendant upon power" (...
This paper examines Frost's short poem, Fire and Ice. The author examines themes of alienation and destruction, and argues that t...