YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Explication of 2 poems by Martin Espada
Essays 1501 - 1530
women should be admired for their inner qualities, rather than their outward beauty. However, it is nevertheless true that Pope im...
the very truth of human nature -- which is why they are often painful to accept. Indeed, his work represents all that is the huma...
we mortals bear perforce, although we suffer; for they are much stronger than we. But now I will teach you clearly, telling you th...
all of the kingdoms riches and power for themselves. The problem is Odysseuss only son, who is the natural successor to the throne...
notice. That he soared toward the sun on wings made of wax only to have them melt, plummet him into the sea and ultimately drown ...
a whole. According to Hector, Paris has brought ruin on his people and has allowed his lust for women to drive him to insane actio...
role of the bees in Marvells poem "fits in with human experience, the reader most likely being familiar with the sharp pain of a b...
would end without seeing "half my days thats due" (line 13). This suggests that Bradstreet is giving birth in middle age, which s...
narrator restores the sight of the Greek love god Cupid, and he subsequently flees (Donaldson 154): "And (withal) I did untie / Ev...
lost" (The Battle of Maldon: Introduction). In this battle, which involved the Vikings and the leader Anlaf tried to land ashore...
great exception may arise and disregard and overturn it"(Whitman 2003). This would seem to show a type of reflection on...
abnegates any evil whatsoever. Blake seems to believe, as one can readily determine from a study of his other works, that evil is...
ask that pauses and changes in tone come into play for it is clearly set out in a very smooth rhythm. In many ways this establishe...
are not representative of nature and he finds refreshment and nourishment in his memories, and now in his seeing nature again. ...
the Duchess to show pleasure. Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt, Wheneer I passed her, but who passed without Much the same smile? Th...
and real images, illustrating his understanding of how poetics could work, how placement of words, creating imagery and also a str...
without becoming a casualty of war. For one brief moment amid the regularity of hell in the trenches, Baumer is overcome wi...
than they did many years ago, that people who appear happy and content are not always happy and content. Being wealthy and handsom...
a poem that examines ones past and the choices made, as well as a poem that presents the narrator with two obvious choices. In a l...
of the living (Schneider 834-835). In other words, someone in hell is only willing to expose his shameful state "to another of t...
devices not only within the line in which it occurs, but also between lines. Also in regards to these lines, while the poet refe...
of mortal men exceeding fair" (18.490). The image of "two cities" mirrors the basic plot of the Iliad, which is a ten-year-long ...
her well" (lines 4-8). This substantiates the forgiveness and understanding that the speaker already has indicated towards his fat...
help keep me in New York against coercion/ but now Im happy for a time and interested" (OHara 1-8). This is sort of a free form...
curlers, the hands you love to touch" (Piercy 75). a. The poem denotes cultural symbols. b. Symbols include bound feet an...
middle of a raid and rather than go through the trouble of proving he is an American chooses to run, and in this "jogging" event h...
and how they are seen by Wheatley as almost heavenly. She is clearly amazed at the figures and the power within these figures. Thi...
action so that the reader can easily imagine its intensity. It is a strikingly vivid image. Likewise, Frost is famous for his im...
about 1594 onward it is believed that he played with a group of actors, however: "written records give little indication of the wa...
her part. What she didnt know was that Zeus was responsible for thwarting her attempts at consummating her relationship with Odys...