YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Explication of 2 poems by Martin Espada
Essays 1621 - 1650
Road Not Taken" can be viewed as an evaluation of his decisions that the poet takes at midlife. Frost describes standing in a "ye...
in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt...
The allusion to Oscar Wildes epigram--What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities--...
and symbolism. As Arnold embraces God along with the seas that the maker has created, he questions things. The church is often the...
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...
the complete submission and obedience of his wife to his will. She should concentrate all of her attention on him, or face dire c...
I think of naming, far less telling, / every feat of that rugged man, Odysseus, / but here is something that he dared to do / at T...
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....
though they were in a war. Their life is perhaps not threatened, but they must struggle to become more honorable and noble as they...
but his folk heritage as well. "Hughes made the spirituals, blues, and jazz the bases of his poetic expression. Hughes wrote, he c...
from their own ideas concerning societal norms. Clifton writes, "they had begun to whisper/among themselves hesitant/ to be bran...
a mystical quality that makes us think about what shes saying. Shes packed a lot of thought into a very few lines. The poem is par...
about being killed in war, or losing a friend in the war, but also how one can lose themselves to such a degree that death is the ...
the person who is coming home from work: Chin then directly enters into the conversation as an outside voice addressing the "Bab...
soon scaped worlds and fleshs rage" (Jonson 6-7). In this the reader sees a rationalization that almost seems to be envy as the na...
the "music" of nature and is part of a continuous cycle. This poem concludes "How can we know the dancer from the dance" (line 64)...
says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...
In sage debates...To save the state" (Homer Book I). The reader begins to see that Telemachus is not wise enough to be prepared fo...
stories they remember from men who are from an older generation. Barker (1993) highlights the psychological effects of this popul...
trees will give no shelter and the crickets, no relief" (Wasteland by TS Eliot). When looking at this particular reference one c...
his films. In so doing we look at one line from the film and two lines from Eliots poem. Lily states, "I thought that I could ma...
desperation or dismay of the narrator whereas Hemingways story leaves us to infer the desperation, but the ending is very similar....
itself and thus establish its own limits" (261). This, necessarily, involves the collapse of boundaries, which can be "sexual, nat...
oppression could flourish" (Langston Hughes 1902) - has a hard time realizing how religion serves any other purpose than to latch ...
(Corey and Corey 180). For heterosexuals and homosexuals alike, "Love is elusive... a goal we rarely achieve and, when we do, fin...
for either side. However, even though the plot is simple, the way the poem is written is deliberately heroic, and is very much ...
director, "having created us alive, then no longer wished, or was he able, to put us materially into a work of art. And this, sir,...