YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Explication of 2 poems by Martin Espada
Essays 1021 - 1050
present Beowulf as a young hero, who is called upon by his fathers old friend King Hrothgar of Geatland, to defend his subjects ag...
20). The lyricism and imagery in this opening section are romantic, seductive and certain to appeal to the ego of any woman. Howev...
practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaste...
which he lived when he says that the poem is not the result of Dantes inner contemplation, "it is rooted in the immediate Christia...
/ Arrayed of the Round Table rightful brothers ... / the feast was in force full fifteen days" (37-39, 44). They are celebrating t...
(Faulkner). In the story of Miss Brill one does not see her as a tradition of the people, a sort of monument to an Old South bec...
and trash everywhere (Ainsworth). To her right is her grandson, dressed in blue short and a white t-shirt; he appears to be about ...
readers, the reference will be obvious, but for young people for whom the Second World War and its atrocities seem unreal, it may ...
to understand his culture and find his place in it; its not surprising that his poems speak to his experience and his characters f...
that in the process of dying Dickinson believed there were senses, and perhaps there were senses upon death as well. But that sens...
the condition of oppression and restrictive realities. This is the symbolic premise of the poem. From this perspective the African...
While there is a sense of pride, it is not an arrogant pride or a pride that is only involved in self for Beowulf is proud of bein...
ring, and how he is seemingly unscathed with no broken bones or scars (Karr 20-21). She notes how "Someday soon, the tether/ will ...
day, children come to our classrooms. Some are more ready to learn than others, some are more excited about learning than others b...
time" (Alexie 34-36). This is a summation of the conflict of the modern Native, from the eyes of the narrator, today. It speaks of...
the wood is in the air and one can see the beauty of the mountains if they only looked up. It is a beautiful image and one that cl...
As these examples illustrate, there are instances where there are definite Christian allusions in the text. Furthermore, at the be...
book, Ares is battling Diomedes; he thrusts at him but Athena knocks his spear away and Diomedes stabs the god. Ares flies up to O...
but the presence of Winter coming on is clearly a powerful element, or theme, in the poem as the narrator illustrates how he is re...
(4-5). This sounds like a childrens rhyme and as such would seem pleasant but the imagery is of blight, and death and then it pres...
a fa?ade that represents him at his best. But Mammy Prater apparently did none of this. Instead, "she waited until the technique...
overwhelming, because they come with options: we can choose to see "300" now because Gerry Butlers incredibly hot, but we also kno...
Form This particular poem has a very clear pattern of rhyme. It is considered to a type of poem that possesses a...
When she heard about the murder, she "fell silent and did not speak for five years" (Bloom). She began to speak once more when she...
loss of an individual, perhaps most commonly the death of an individual. But, with the English tradition of the elegy there is als...
the layers will not reveal any great secrets. And that appears to be breaking the examiners heart. The reader should keep in mind...
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...
the more tolerant cities of the north, where there was both work and opportunity (Rowen and Brunner). Nearly three-quarters of a m...