YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Explication of 2 poems by Martin Espada
Essays 1051 - 1080
of recurrence and an admonishment not to expect recurrence immediately draws the reader in. The poet them goes on to describe "the...
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how it results in the wasting of the land, which results from the hero failing to ask the right questions (Weston 18). The theme...
shared her names (Cisneros, 1987). This places a poetic emphasis on the lack of personal efficacious power women experienced in th...
too swollen to wear an expensive pair of Italian loafers, he presents them to Birkerts, who, initially, wears them, as they looked...
a whole" (Yu 380). These natural images are used to open each stanza, as Yu notes that there are "three tetrasyllabic stanzas of f...
who felt that the school needed to deal with admissions differently. When he presents Hughes poem, however, he is presenting it as...
has what might be considered a god-like perspective. That puts him in a place where he can not only look at the city, but judge it...
its absolutely necessary, but then he wants something in return, because if he does lose her its a matter of honor. Achilles tries...
various admirers which she held in just as much regard as anything she received from him-including the title. Furthermore, she fli...
as if she did not exist. They tune her out, just as they do other unsightly aspects of urban living. No one sees the cigarette but...
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...
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...
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...
My Dear and Loving Husband" and "In Reference To Her Children 23 June, 1659" as well as Taylors "My Spouse" and "Upon Wedlock, and...
But, the poem examines the life and struggles of a soldier as he lays sleeping, and clearly bloodied and examining his cause. It s...
Latino, classical and contemporary" (Bixby, 2000). His later work reveal a man "who has learned his craft from the European tradit...
of the monarchy due to his support of the Commonwealth (John Milton). Married three times, he spent his later years dictating to h...
was a child and I was a child, / In this kingdom by the sea, / But we loved with a love that was more than love-- / I and...
confuse free verse with sloppiness. The tone of the poem ("tone" can best be understood as the attitude the speaker has toward his...
does not have a job people envision him as a beggar. But, at the same time there is an understanding that he is doing a Holy mans ...
However, the meaning is obscure and the student will have to pursue the tranlsation with more sophisticated tools than are availab...
in the way the political world was playing out in the conquest. And clearly he argues that the poetry was never simple. This seems...
he will gild her horns as part of the sacrifice (Homer). Such sacrifices were meant as "gifts" to the gods, which were designed to...
when nurses are needed the most, which is when we are ill (line 12). This is when "Nurses come through, with their care and goodwi...