YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Explication of 2 poems by Martin Espada
Essays 1621 - 1650
a shared, antagonistic experience, and in the process radicalized poetry. This is attributed to Ciardi and di Prima, who brought w...
of children and their behavior, their fears and victories. This paper compares and contrasts two of her poems, "The One Girl at th...
in spite of that, is often hopeful, even joyous. This paper explicates her poem "Million Man March." Discussion The theme of the ...
of the Puerto Rican dream to its death and the deaths of those who made up his poets society, but it is a stretch to say that it m...
Thames, in the opening lines which state, "I wander thro each charterd street,/ Near where the charterd Thames does flow,/ And mar...
what might be a darker meaning to the poem. The last two lines are repeated ("And miles to go before I sleep") so that the reader...
geographical region to artists works Definition of and importance of voice The paper then presents these four sections: Sec...
party recite the poem removes the reader even further from the statue, lending it an even greater air of mystery and moving it fur...
the Victorians was their sense of social responsibility. Unfortunately, that sense of responsibility was self-righteous and obsess...
Stood - A Loaded Gun," has been described as her most difficult. This paper discusses the poem with regard to its meaning and some...
considering they are the only words that are linked/combined with dashes, which clearly emphasizes their metaphorical nature. Rill...
States when she was seven. Her poetry then is an attempt to reconcile the extremes that come from living in two cultures simultane...
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...
other words, Wordsworth bemoans the materialistic nature of his society, which is a feature of Western society that continues into...
so-called loved ones seem to have gathered expecting to witness something memorably catastrophic, almost as if they seek to be ent...
Song is an aging man who longs for love, particularly courtly love that fits with his expectations of both women and love....
Dust, in 1940 (Robert Hayden). Accolades and awards followed (including being the first African-American to be named Poet Laureate...
haiku poem Blasts of light, motion, Tortured vision, endless beauty, Lead to new understanding. Vincent van Gogh painted The Sta...
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...
Psalm of Life" and Edgar Allan Poes "Sonnet-To Science" address the way that each poet perceived life and the reality of their era...
a figurative level, the poet is inviting the reader to take his perspective, to figuratively "walk in his shoes" and, thereby, lea...
this became the most well known poem by Hughes and appeared in his first volume of poetry, The Weary Blues, which was published in...
grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...
now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...
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...