YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Explication of 2 poems by Martin Espada
Essays 1051 - 1080
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...
Bloom). He escaped but was arrested and tried, and sentenced to a year and a day (Dyson and Bloom). His attorney got him released ...
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...
and to help win over his coy mistress" (Reiff, 2002, p. 196). The first person pronouns "vary between the singular, which emphasiz...
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...
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...
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...
This essay pertains to Shakespeare's "Othello" and Rudyard Kipling's poem "If-," which lists various qualities that are required t...
This essay pertains to Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," published in 1729, and Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess, Ferra...
This essay pertains to "Ode to Psyche" and "The Eve of St. Agnes" by John Keats, and compares the two poems. Five pages in length...
In a paper of one page, the writer looks at Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey. A brief explanation is given of several themes invoked in ...
This essay presents a comprehensive overview of the poem that analyzes its content and draws on scholarly opinion as substantiatio...
This essay analyzes two poems by Hughes, "Theme for English B" and "Let America Be America Again." The writer asserts that "Theme"...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Kipling's "White Man's Burden". The poem is placed in an historical context. Paper ...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Browning's "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point". Short essay responses to discuss...
In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at "Goblin Market". Social and Biblical interpretations are presented for the poem. Pap...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at "A Subaltern's Love Song" by Betjeman. Symbols of post-colonial significance are de...
This essay analyzes Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" and John Donne's "The Flea" and offers the writer's reaction to these a...