YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Explication of 2 poems by Martin Espada
Essays 991 - 1020
ship" (Dylan). Though phrased differently, each poet is illustrating how inspiration can take the artist away to different places...
the layers will not reveal any great secrets. And that appears to be breaking the examiners heart. The reader should keep in mind...
and she wishes that she were "wife to a better man" (Homer Book VI). Through Helens eyes and, also, through Homers portrayal of He...
$15 on the sale (Untermeyer). "His mother was proud, but the rest of the family were alarmed" (Untermeyer 4). Their alarm was well...
to "enjoy" whatever society had to offer, or whatever society insisted on the citizen possessing in order to follow the norm. Th...
about the boundaries and concerns of civil, political and religious justice, such as where the jurisdiction of the state can be de...
melted, and I let it fall and break" (Frost 9-13). This section of the poem clearly offers the reader the image of winter coming o...
and to help win over his coy mistress" (Reiff, 2002, p. 196). The first person pronouns "vary between the singular, which emphasiz...
is a pain I mostly hide, but ties of blood, or seed, endure, and even now I feel inside the hunger for his outstretched hand, a ma...
Francis tried to resume his former practices and his old life, and briefly considered a military career, but the call to a religio...
things in daily life that he does. Despite this, he and his classmates have a lot in common: they all need to sleep, drink and e...
about the circumstances of the household. An atmosphere of bitterness with bouts of anger is described. The recollection suggests ...
her sisters husband and how he had cut out her tongue to keep silent and a prisoner (Ovid BkVI:571-619). Those characters who as...
in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,- The sweeping up the heart, And...
nearly twenty years without complaint. Should that not account for something? As his pain intensifies, Ivan Ilych begins feeling...
safe place: the dead are "untouched" beneath their rafters of satin and roofs of stone (Dickinson). They wait motionless for the r...
stations" (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame). He was clearly very influenced by many talented musicians at the time, and in a place th...
was raised a Catholic, he was christened in St. James Church (Eaves et al). During his childhood, Blake was surrounded by visions ...
and lonely offices?" (Hayden 13-14). All of this speaks of a childs ignorance and how children are simply children, ignora...
of knight. He was the kings representative in battle, and his role as the protector of freedom was assumed with honor and uncompro...
turn brown; leaves drop from the trees in late autumn; butterflies soar for a short span of time; predatory animals kill their pre...
located in West Seattle; his patients are mostly urban and poor ("Peter Pereira"). On the literary front, he has been published...
Bloom). He escaped but was arrested and tried, and sentenced to a year and a day (Dyson and Bloom). His attorney got him released ...
ceinture is a cloth belt), strikes a romantic note, but again, these are what the gowns do not look like. This may indicate the gl...
held public education of the period in great disdain, which is expressed in a poem dubbed "Saturday Afternoon:" "From all the jail...
is presumably himself, as an adult, looking back at the things his father did for him. These are things that the child clearly nev...
practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaste...
20). The lyricism and imagery in this opening section are romantic, seductive and certain to appeal to the ego of any woman. Howev...
consider myself a failed woman and a failed poet, or to try to find some synthesis by which to understand what was happening to me...
present Beowulf as a young hero, who is called upon by his fathers old friend King Hrothgar of Geatland, to defend his subjects ag...