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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ADVERTISING Matches Found: 31 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A RHYME ABOUT AN ELECTRICAL ADVERTISING SIGN, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I look on the specious electrical light Last Line: That is climbed by the rainbow-clad spirits of prayer. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Advertising; Broadway, New York City; Signs & Signboards ADVERTISEMENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The codfish lays a million eggs Last Line: Its pays to advertise! Subject(s): Advertising;mnemonics ADVERTISEMENT, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We want a man of forty for the job Last Line: We want such a man for the job. Subject(s): Advertising; Labor & Laborers; Memory; Water; Work; Workers ADVERTISING RHYMES, SELS., by UNKNOWN Subject(s): Advertising; Mnemonics DIGNITY, by RICHARD COLE Poem Source First Line: So at last I'm finished Last Line: Right in the eye and sign my name %with dignity Subject(s): Advertising FALSE ADVERTISING, by BRUCE BENNETT Poem Source First Line: Ramses drops strength label. - the Last Line: You're superman now, not clark kent Subject(s): Advertising; Sex GUERNICA IN NEW YORK, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: We shall talk Last Line: The way of love you %guernica %painted once more %in each skyscraper %in each rape %in each victim Subject(s): Advertising; Art And Artists; New York City IN DEFENCE OF THE ADVERTISING MUSE, by RICHARD KENDALL MUNKITTRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shakespeare speaks: 'sometimes when I'm not at work on a play' Last Line: That they all were written by bacon. Subject(s): Advertising; Poetry & Poets LINES, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Picture the lady's stocking Last Line: Displaying her toes et cet. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Advertising; Women LUCKY STRIKE, by MERRILL MOORE Poem Source First Line: Those who have no agent paid to cry Last Line: Lie rumpled on a cold eternal floor %that women sweep, who never swept before Subject(s): Advertising MADISON AVENUE OVERTURE, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come join us, huck, upon the raft Subject(s): Advertising; Madison Avenue, New York MESSENGER, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone has been painting Subject(s): Advertising; Graffiti; Letters; Messages & Messengers; Paintings & Painters MONEY BACK, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your money back if things don't suit' Last Line: Infant after him. Subject(s): Advertising; Grocers; Merchants; Money OAFISHNESS SELLS GOOD, LIKE AN ADVERTISEMENT SHOULD, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I guess it is farewell to grammatical compunction Last Line: Like goes madison avenue, like so goes the nation Subject(s): Advertising PERSONAL, by BETH GYLYS Poem Source First Line: I want a man whose body makes mine hum Last Line: Don't call me if you're rigid, mean or dumb Subject(s): Advertising; Mankind PERSONAL, by SAMUEL YELLEN Poem Source First Line: Cultured gentleman, mature, congenial, refined Last Line: Before too late, too late, too late, too late, %becomes a deafening clamor in the ear? Subject(s): Advertising, Personal PERSONALS, by ALAN FELDMAN Poem Source First Line: My wife reads them. She wants to keep abreast of what's available Last Line: Because you get up in the morning and find that some of the trashcan liners are missing Subject(s): Advertising, Personal POEM, ON SUPPOSITION OF ADVERTISEMENT ...VOLUME OF POEMS, BY A SERVANT, by ELIZABETH HANDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tea-kettle bubbled, the tea things were set Last Line: Like courtiers contending for honours, sat down. Alternate Author Name(s): Daphne Subject(s): Advertising; Books; Household Employees; Social Classes; Women Writers; Reading; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Caste POEM, OR BEAUTY HURTS MR. VINAL, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take it from me kiddo Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Advertising; Consumerism POEM, OR BEAUTY HURTS MR. VINAL, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take it from me kiddo Last Line: Comes out like a ribbon lies flat on the brush Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Advertising; Consumerism POSTER, by FERREIRA GULLAR Poem Source First Line: It does help to know Last Line: The girl hidden in the panther Subject(s): Advertising; Models; Photography And Photographers; Posters RECEPTIONIST'S COMMUTE, by JODY ZORGDRAGER Poem Source First Line: Sheer without fear %is what the nude Last Line: Believe that it's you %he sees straight through Subject(s): Advertising; Commuters; Miller, Arthur (b. 1915); Roads; Signs And Signboards SEVEN SANDWICHMEN ON BROADWAY, by JEFFERSON BUTLER FLETCHER Poem Text First Line: Shuffling and shambling, woebegone, they pass Last Line: Of fear, of hate,—of the thrice false weights of gold! Subject(s): Advertising; Broadway, New York City STEPS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man letters the sign for his grocery in arabic and english Last Line: Making the shadows that cross each other's smiles. Subject(s): Advertising; Children; Language; Letters; Signs & Signboards; Childhood; Words; Vocabulary SUCCESS STORIES, by RICHARD COLE Poem Source First Line: I'm still addicted to the 'new york times' Last Line: Rambling down into the earth again, toward %manhattan, wealth, and our steady jobs Subject(s): Advertising; New York City; Success SWF PROFESSIONAL SEEKS HUSBAND, by CINDY THOMPSON-RUMPLE Poem Source First Line: A very special value Last Line: Hurry! Won't last long Subject(s): Advertising; Mankind; Relationships; Women THANK YOU, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh thank you for giving me the chance Subject(s): Advertising; Teeth; Self; Careers; Toothaches THE ADVERTISING MAN'S LOVE SONG, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You have the skin I love to touch Last Line: A little fairy in our home! Subject(s): Advertising; Love TO MR. JOHN MOORE, AUTHOR OF THE CELEBRATED WORM-POWDER, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How much, egregious moore, are we Last Line: Who maggots were before. Variant Title(s): Worms Subject(s): Advertising; Worms TWO SONNETS: 2, by DAVID P. BERENBERG Poem Text First Line: Or is it all illusion? Do the years Last Line: For me, my vision of the long ago! Subject(s): Advertising; Mythology VOLAPUK, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The city man took off his coat and his hat Last Line: "zymole clupeco omega fels naptha pineoleum teco!" Subject(s): Advertising |
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