YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Explication of 2 poems by Martin Espada
Essays 121 - 150
people have other people that they look up to in an envious manner, believing that someone elses life is far better than their own...
has to be cut for the stove" (Wiles). When someone dies it does not mean they were not loved, and they are not missed, just becaus...
imagery perfectly sums up the pressures modern age, as the narrator is too pressed for time to pause and appreciate nature more th...
girl, outcast, forlorn/as thrown her life away?"). But the poet is adamant that both parties, the man and the woman involved in th...
the poem involves the power of antiquities, of ancient history and of those relics that are left behind after someones time and er...
except "en-masse" (Morace). Whitman refers to equality again in Section 5 when he says "...all the men ever born are also my brot...
the later part of the 19th century, who witnessed much of Chicagos history. He saw it in the early days of the 20th century when w...
that everything he says is truth and thus at this point his analyzing is only supporting that truth. He assumes, or infers...
(VII). In this he is telling Beowulf that he had many apparently noble men claiming they would get rid of the beast but they drank...
11). After this section the dinner party clearly moves to the Drawing-Room wherein a woman who sits with fire reflecting her jewel...
a "reject button" and she is pregnant with a Xerox machine (Piercy). The last lines of the poem give the reader the point: "File m...
they are lifting boulders and at others, they only have to worry about shifting small stones (Frost). The main thing is, they are ...
But it also tells of the two neighbors who work to repair the wall together: they set a specific day and time to do so (Frost, 200...
that may speak of a lack of hope or direction. The reader does not really need to know what the poem is...
that second coming, beginning with a sense of hope, but finished with a sense of fear or dread: "The Second Coming! Hardly are tho...
his poem and essentially relying on words that are descriptive and are simply part of his experience with nature. In this it is pe...
have learned to "fly" and to "sing," that is, that they have become responsible adults, capable of living and contributing to soci...
being a man./ And it happens that I walk into tailorshops and movie/ houses/ dried up, waterproof, like a swan made of felt/ steer...
often simply a reality that was accepted as part of life. It did not necessarily make people angry or bitter or resentful in a con...
his unique nature he was, during his lifetime, "generally dismissed as an eccentric during his lifetime" although "posterity redis...
different than the perspectives of the world at the time. Near the beginning of Manriques poem he states, "Let none be self-delud...
This essay analyzes the meaning of Langston Hughes' poem "Theme for English B." Three pages n length, two sources are cited. ...
This essay pertains to Wilfred Owen's poem, which captures the horror of World War I. Five pages in length, seven sources are cite...
must take a stand against evil and live according to ideals rather than simply from a myopic focus on personal needs. In Canto 2...
a Baptist minister and he became a minister himself in 1947 ("King, Martin Luther Jr."). He was educated Morehouse College; recei...
the year 1774 arrived. The smell of war began to be pretty strong, but I was determined to have no hand in it. I felt myself to be...
what might be causing the narrators shame. Shame is generally associated with sexual urges. During Frosts lifetime, i.e., the fi...
the fleetingness of time, but his imagery and argument are more nuanced and complex. He, first of all, advises his mistress that i...
people of Kiltaran, there is not likely end to the war that will affect them deeply one way or the other. Furthermore, it was not ...
and taken blood from both. He tries to convince her that to give in to him, to give him herself, has been ultimately blessed by th...