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Tenets: Advancement, High Speed, Paperless, Creativity

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Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper Analysis

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Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper Analysis

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This poem was written during the CONTEMPORARY PERIOD. It uses IMAGERY to help further express the idea that in our modern days we take everything for granted and should appreciate the little things in life.

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Martin Espada is a Latino poet born August 7, 1957 who focuses his poem themes to be based on Puerto Rico. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and was introduced to political activism at an early age due to his father who played an active part in the civil rights movement. During his early adulthood, he worked as a tenant lawyer and also wrote poems on his free time.

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At sixteen, I worked after high school hours
at a printing plant
that manufactured legal pads:
Yellow paper
stacked seven feet high
and leaning
as I slipped cardboard
between the pages,
then brushed red glue
up and down the stack.
No gloves: fingertips required
for the perfection of paper,
smoothing the exact rectangle.
Sluggish by 9 PM, the hands
would slide along suddenly sharp paper,
and gather slits thinner than the crevices
of the skin, hidden.
The glue would sting,
hands oozing
till both palms burned
at the punch clock.

Ten years later, in law school,
I knew that every legal pad
was glued with the sting of hidden cuts,
that every open law book
was a pair of hands
upturned and burning.

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Hendry Wadsworth Longfellow was born February 27, 1807 and died March 24th, 1882 and was a well known American poet. He was born in Maine but studied at Bowdoin college in Massachusetts and later on became a professor at Harvard. Years later he decided to retire to focus on his writing in 1854.

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The tide rises, the tide falls,
The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;
Along the sea-sands damp and brown
The traveller hastens toward the town,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.

Darkness settles on roofs and walls,
But the sea, the sea in the darkness calls;
The little waves, with their soft, white hands,
Efface the footprints in the sands,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.

The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls
Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls;
The day returns, but nevermore
Returns the traveller to the shore,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.

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This poem was created during the ROMANTICISM PERIOD. It uses the literacy device metaphors to help further express the meaning of life.

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The time period of this poem is between the MODERNISM AND CONTEMPORARY PERIODS. During those periods any authors focused their literature on IMAGISM with a PESSIMISSTIC TONE while using a STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS. The audience is used to come up with their own meaning of the poem based on their morals and values.

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many take for granted

a tiger lily

on a hot summer day

maintaining balance and strength.

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The time period of this poem is between the REALISM AND MODERNISM PERIODS. During those periods many authors focused their literature on THE UGLY SIDE OF LIFE with a PESSIMISTIC TONE using a REALISTIC VIEW. The audience is shown Richard Cory's sadness in the final lines of his suicide.

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Whenever they walk into the room
All of us around stare
He is mean and brings doom
No emotion, face bare

And he is an introvert, soft spoken
And everyone listened when he talked
But he was different like a rare token
He kept to himself, proudly walked

And he was misleading- yes wanted to be someone else
When I saw him I wanted to help mend
He didn’t like anyone including himself
But It turns out he's the one with the most friends