YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Explication of 2 poems by Martin Espada
Essays 1381 - 1410
as an adventurous and noble man, and offers us the romance of a story. From this simple beginning we can readily assume that Be...
from their own ideas concerning societal norms. Clifton writes, "they had begun to whisper/among themselves hesitant/ to be bran...
terrible punishment, as they shall "alwey whirle aboute therthe in peyne" (line 80) and they shall not be forgiven for their wicke...
try to be more than they are. In this poem we have a simple boy who works and praises God. He is told that the Pope praises God as...
poets position in this family situation -- my mothers hand opens in early grave and i hold it out like a good daughter." This imag...
of vivid imagery and haunting metaphor. There is also no punctuation, by design. According to literary critic Michael Greenstein...
a sufferer from mental illness, which may have been triggered at least in part by her fathers death during her childhood....
vision of the natural world in which Gods presence can be seen as flowing through it like an electric current. This presence can b...
keeping out all of the world that she does not desire to experience or see or meet. This is further emphasized by the third and fo...
suggests, there is often a political context to Olds observations. For example, in "The Death of Marilyn Monroe," Olds suggests ...
be a lover and an optimist. But we begin to see images of tension in the fact that he describes the evening sky spread out as "a p...
the euphemism waltz to indicate the routine beatings which occurred. Lastly, in Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden, another t...
the viewer. The next stanzas, however, bring the reader and the viewer, a more sobering message. In comparison to the characters ...
certain that the reader has not missed the implication. Note that in the lines leading up to the "beauty of dissonance" th...
to have stood, though free to fall" (Milton Book III). In this we see that Adam had the freedom to make a choice, and in that free...
a world of what might have been is not healthy. Therefore, he is suggesting that when one determines a course of action, that one ...
spiritual awakening. CHARACTERISTICS OF AN EPIC POEM: Epic poems all share similar characteristics which define them as such. Fo...
and bravery and excitement. They beg for it many times as they beg to be spun like an airplane or hung upside down. They trust the...
12, Whitman was indoctrinated in the printers trade (AAP). It was at this time that he fell in love with words, and began to read ...
ceiling of my house where I could walk around in empty rooms all by myself"(Stanton). Everything in this place would be quie...
against an actual flower. However, if one will recall, during this time in history in which Frost wrote, the phone had just been i...
boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy(Roethke). This is...
seems to add to the depression, the unhappiness that the narrator is speaking of because there is a sense of futility in trying to...
experience it for himself. As a teenager I would drive Fathers Chevrolet cross-country, given me...
journeys, "After leaving his ruined home in a galaxy far, far away, Luke Skywalker began a journey taken by countless other heroes...
be a Bride --/ So late a Dowerless Girl -" (Dickinson 2-3). This indicates that she has nothing to offer, that she is a poor woman...
between what is real and what is a mere reflection is indicated in the line that says, "Under the October twilight the water/Mirro...
man knows truth. How can this be? It is through the very essence of man, through the essence of the tree and of flowers and of dog...
William Blake writes somberly: O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has foun...
pool one day. She thought about their lives and how they felt and realized they were victims of a society and also young me who de...