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Subject: BREUGHEL THE ELDER, PIETER (1530-1569)
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First Line: Days later, in my calendar, or in the book
Last Line: Their ardor, their %weaponry
Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569)


BEFORE BREUGHEL THE ELDER, by ALEKSANDER WAT                        Poet's Biography
First Line: Work is a blessing
Alternate Author Name(s): Chwat, Aleksander
Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Poland - Communist Regime; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter


BEFORE BREUGHEL THE ELDER, by ALEKSANDER WAT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Work is a blessing
Last Line: Your modest servant, wat aleksander) - work is our rescue
Alternate Author Name(s): Chwat, Aleksander
Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Poland - Communist Regime


BREUGHEL, by MICHAEL COLLIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The lump on his neck that no collar
Last Line: Picked the clogged sap from the blade and with a file sharpened %the teeth
Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569)


BRUEGEL'S CROWS, by BARBARA JORDAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: High in bare trees, high above trampled snow
Last Line: And sturdy bridge; %our eyes, too, are calipers- %measuringmenace in a white world
Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569)


BRUEGHEL IN NAPLES, by DANNIE ABSE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Ovid would never have guessed how far
Last Line: Intent on becoming an old master
Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569)


BRUEGHEL IN THE DORIA, by RICHARD HUGO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's a rare brueghel without people
Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569)


BRUEGHEL'S WINTER, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jagg'd mountain peaks and skies ice-green
Last Line: Who squandered here life's mystery
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Paintings And Painters


COCKTAILS WITH BRUEGHEL AT THE MUSEUM CAFE, by SANDRA STONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: To slip through the turnstile? To tuck in my blouson
Last Line: To hitch up for the upcoming inexorable frolic
Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569)


DANCE (1), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In brueghel's great picture, the kermess
Last Line: Rollicking measures, prance as they dance %in brueghel's great picture, the kermess
Variant Title(s): The Danc
Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Dancing And Dancers


DANCE (2), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the snow falls the flakes
Last Line: Dancing, dancing as may be credible
Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Dancing And Dancers; Festivals; Paintings And Painters


ET QUID AMABO NISI QUOD AENIGMA EST, by STEPHEN SANDY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Then watching the unposed beggars pose
Last Line: Lousy shirts, the pocked forearm, and scarred wrist
Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569)


FEBRUARY: THE BOY BREUGHEL, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The birches stand in their beggar's row
Last Line: A sunrise. The snow.
Subject(s): Animals; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Foxes; Rabbits; Red (color); Violence; White (color); Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; Hares


HUNTERS IN THE SNOW: BRUEGHEL, by JOSEPH LANGLAND    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Quail and rabbit hunters with tawny hounds
Last Line: Falling in beating rings and soft diagonals. %lodged in the vague vast valley the village sleeps
Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569)


ICARUS IN WINTER, by CAROL FROST    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If brueghel was wrong, and icarus fell in the dead of the year
Last Line: Stunted roots so far below sense that they don't show
Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Icarus; Mythology - Classical; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter


ICARUS IN WINTER, by CAROL FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If brueghel was wrong, and icarus fell in the dead of the year
Last Line: Stunted roots so far below sense that they don't show
Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Icarus; Mythology - Classical


IT'S MARCH, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And the sap is running in
Last Line: Reds - it's a scene from bruegel
Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); March (month)


LOVING YOU IN FLEMISH, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let me love you in my tongue tonight
Last Line: Verget awe noam en al de rest . . .
Subject(s): Antwerp, Belgium; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Food & Eating; Language; Love; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Memmeling, John (1430-1495); Metaphor; Ostend, Belgium; Prostitution; Tongues; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter;


MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: About suffering they were never wrong
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Apathy; Art & Artists; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Human Rights; Icarus; Men; Museums; Mythology - Classical; Pain; Paintings & Painters; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; Art Gallerys; Suffering; Misery


MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: About suffering they were never wrong
Last Line: Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky %had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Apathy; Art And Artists; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Human Rights; Icarus; Men; Museums; Mythology - Classical; Pain; Paintings And Painters


NUMBERING AT BETHLEHEM, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He was, he tells his grandson, a grandson
Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569)


PICTURES FROM BRUEGHEL: 1. SELF-PORTRAIT, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a red winter hat blue
Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Paintings & Painters; Icarus; Mythology - Classical; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter


PICTURES FROM BRUEGHEL: 2. LANDSCAPE WITH THE FALL OF ICARUS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: According to brueghel / when icarus fell
Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Icarus; Mythology - Classical; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter


PICTURES FROM BRUEGHEL: 2. LANDSCAPE WITH THE FALL OF ICARUS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: According to brueghel %when icarus fell
Last Line: A splash quite unnoticed %this was %icarus drowning
Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Icarus; Mythology - Classical


PICTURES FROM BRUEGHEL: 3. THE HUNTERS IN THE SNOW, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The over-all picture is winter
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Paintings & Painters; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter


PICTURES FROM BRUEGHEL: 3. THE HUNTERS IN THE SNOW, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The over-all picture is winter
Last Line: A winter-struck bush for his %foreground to %complete the picture
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Paintings And Painters


PROPORTIONS, by JOSEPH STROUD    Poem Source                    
First Line: For years I've lived with breughel's painting
Last Line: And talk. A man and woman, I think. %behind them are two locust trees suffused with light
Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569)


SKATERS, by VERN RUTSALA    Poem Source                    
First Line: There are many tonight and the rink
Last Line: The rubber-kneed drunks, bad %music in the background, %and love pledged in the balcony
Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Sports


THE DANCE (1), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: In brueghel's great picture, the kermess
Variant Title(s): The Dance
Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Dancing & Dancers; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter


THE DANCE (2), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the snow falls the flakes
Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Dancing & Dancers; Festivals; Paintings And Painters; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; Fairs; Pageants


THE NUMBERING AT BETHLEHEM, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He was, he tells his grandson, a grandson
Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter


TWO VIEWS OF A CADAVER ROOM: 1, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The day she visited the dissecting room
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Corpses; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; Cadavers


TWO VIEWS OF A CADAVER ROOM: 1, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The day she visited the dissecting room
Last Line: In their jars the snail-nosed babies moon and glow. %he hands her the cut-out heart like a cracked h
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Corpses


TWO VIEWS OF A CADAVER ROOM: 2, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In brueghel's panorama of smoke and slaughter
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Corpses; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; Cadavers


TWO VIEWS OF A CADAVER ROOM: 2, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In brueghel's panorama of smoke and slaughter
Last Line: Yet desolation, stalled in paint, spares the little country %foolish, delicate, in the lower right-h
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Corpses