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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CINEMA Matches Found: 81 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FILM, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's strangely like a man Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema A FILM FROM THE SIXTIES, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This adult male. This person on earth. Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema A SERENE HEART AT THE MOVIES, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She strode to her car and turned the key and Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Car Bombs; Movies; Cinema AFTER A MOVIE, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The last small credits fade Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Imagination; Movies; Cinema; Fancy AGAINST THE FALSE MAGICIANS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The poem must not charm us like a film [or, play] Last Line: The rituals of our humanity Subject(s): Humanity; Lies; Magic; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema AMBER ALERT, by JORDAN DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Having a child changes you. For example, Subject(s): Children; Motion Pictures; Steven Spielberg (b. 1946); Childhood; Movies; Cinema AN AMERICAN IN HOLLYWOOD, by FRANK BIDART Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema ARS POETICA: OR: WHO LIVES IN THE IVORY TOWER?, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps you'd like a marching song for the embattled proletariat ... Last Line: Your feet are muddy, you son-of-a-bitch, get out of our ivory tower Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Poetry & Poets; South Sea Islands; Movies; Cinema AT A MOVIE THEATRE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How well he spoke who coined the phrase Last Line: Of shadow, cast upon a screen! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema AT THE MOVIE: VIRGINIA, 1956, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is how it was: Subject(s): Racism; Southern States; Motion Pictures; Youth; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; South (u.s.); Movies; Cinema AT THE MOVIES, by FLORENCE RIPLEY MASTIN Poem Text First Line: They swing across the screen in brave array Last Line: Then I remember, and my heart grows cold! Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Women And War; World War I; Movies; Cinema; First World War AT THE PICTURE-SHOW, by KARLE WILSON BAKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She sits with eyes intent upon the screen Last Line: But all the heroes have some trick of his. . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Charlotte Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema AVE MARIA, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Mothers of america Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Mothers; Motion Pictures; Work; Workers; Movies; Cinema BLACK NARCISSUS, THE MOVIE, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shadow of the bell Last Line: On squat gray donkeys. Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema BLUE MOVIE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no cause for love in such a script Last Line: The disassembled gestures of the dead Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Pornography; Movies; Cinema BRESSON'S MOVIES, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A movie of robert Subject(s): Bresson, Robert (1907-1999); Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema CHINESE GRANDMOTHER, by LLOYD STONE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Calmly she sits in the darkened movie house Last Line: And politely watches. Subject(s): Grandparents; Motion Pictures; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Movies; Cinema COME WITH ME, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was on the verge of the actual genuine Subject(s): Tourists; Motion Pictures; Man-woman Relationships; Movies; Cinema; Male-female Relations CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, by CAROLYN KIZER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fleaneck, n.J.: the convicted felon, henry pflug, was drawn and Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Punishment; Women; Women's Rights; Movies; Cinema; Feminism DAFFY DUCK IN HOLLYWOOD, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema DEPRESSION DAYS (2), by PAT MORA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I bought the dark with my last fifteen cents Last Line: This country, of the price of eggs and skin and names. Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Motion Pictures; Theater & Theaters; United States - Race Relations; Recessions; Movies; Cinema; Stage Life EARLY CINEMA, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: According to mister hedges, the custodian Last Line: No movies for months after Subject(s): Motion Pictures; School; Movies; Cinema EAST SIDE MOVING PICTURE THEATRE - SUNDAY, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old woman rubs her eyes Last Line: Were standing before their last heaven. Subject(s): Heaven; Lower East Side, New York City; Motion Pictures; Prayer; Sabbath; Paradise; Movies; Cinema; Sunday ENDINGS: 2, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Setting the v.C.R. When we go to bed Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema FILM AND FLESH, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was watching a movie / about myself Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Film (photography); Motion Pictures; Actresses; Movies; Cinema FILM NOIR (THE CHASE), by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I didn't have a rat's chance Last Line: Her snuffed, stubbed out / lipstuck cigarette Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema FILM NOIR (THE SET-UP), by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snake oil sales Last Line: Home, humming gumshoe blues Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema FOR LAUREL AND HARDY ON MY WORKROOM WALL, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They're tipping their battered derbies and striding forward Subject(s): Comedy; Hardy, Norvell (oliver) (1892-1957); Laurel, Stan (1890-1965); Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema FRENCH MOVIE, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was in a french movie Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema GRAND ILLUSION, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not 1937 for long. A clump of ash trees and a walk Last Line: Their uncle still casting images of animals for them... Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Renoir, Jean (1894-19979); Violence; World War I; Movies; Cinema; First World War HAIR, by MARK DOTY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a scene in the film Subject(s): Hair; Motion Pictures; Concentration Camps; Movies; Cinema HAND-ME-DOWNS: THE MOVIES, by SUSAN WHEELER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Power schmauer. The trees glinting their crystal boughs beyond the breakfront Last Line: The sparkling allure of the wager and the winning streak? On your mark, go Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Sue Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema HEROIC SMILE, by ROBERT HASS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the swordsman fell in kurosawa's seven samurai Last Line: There are limits to imagination Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema HOME MOVIE, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the other end of a telescope, a long way Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Family Life; Movies; Cinema; Relatives I DUE SOGNI AD OCCHI APERTI: TWO DREAMS WITH EYES WIDE OPEN, by JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first dream with open eyes Subject(s): Cruelty; Dreams; Motion Pictures; Rome, Italy; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Movies; Cinema; Songs IN MEMORIAM, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fate lifts us up so she can hurl Last Line: Watch o'er the happier of his lives: say, does he ewake, or sleep? Subject(s): Books; Motion Pictures; Reading; Movies; Cinema JACK WARDEN, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a woody allen film Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Warden, Jack (1920-2006); Movies; Cinema JOHN WAYNE'S PERFUMES, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In 'cast a giant shadow', john wayne wore claiborne sport; Subject(s): Wayne, John (1907-1979)' Perfume; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema MAE MARSH, MOTION PICTURE ACTRESS, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The arts are old, old as the stone Last Line: Tomorrow's years of yesteryear. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Marsh, Mae; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema MAIN CHARACTER, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to see Subject(s): Motion Pictures; West (u.s.); Movies; Cinema; Southwest; Pacific States MATINEE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twelve years old, two silver quarters singing Last Line: Just reach out and take them into my arms. Subject(s): Children; Motion Pictures; Sexual Harassment; Childhood; Movies; Cinema MIDWEEK, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Plentiful people went to the cadillac drawing Subject(s): Lotteries; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema MOVIE, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Days I drove those distances it was night most of the time, the Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Travel; Movies; Cinema; Journeys; Trips MOVIE ACTRESS, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shal sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Actors & Actresses; Movies; Cinema; Actresses MOVIE STAR IN THE PROJECTION ROOM, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her clothes lean forward in the chair Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Actors & Actresses; Movies; Cinema; Actresses MOVIES, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The roosevelt, renaissance, gem, alhambra Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Motion Pictures; Negroes; American Blacks; Movies; Cinema MOVIES FOR THE TROOPS, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In hollywood the pale white stars Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Soldiers; War; Movies; Cinema OLD MOVIES, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fueled with violins, the luscious soundtrack Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema ONE REASON I LIKE OPERA, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In movies, you can tell the heroine Subject(s): Opera; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema POPULAR REVIVALS 1956, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The thylacine, long thought to be extinct Last Line: And in the films, co-starred with stewart granger Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema REDEMPTION, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The extra well movie ups and outs Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema REDS, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There isn't much to say to marxists in nicaragua witth .45s Last Line: Peter orlovsky laughed. Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema SANCTUARY, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My sister got me the script, I couldn't Last Line: Is sitting accusingly at the foot of my bed. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Death; Dreams; Morgues; Motion Pictures; Unfaithfulness; Actresses; Dead, The; Nightmares; Movies; Cinema; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy SCENE FROM THE MOVIE GIANT, by TINO VILLANUEVA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What I have from 1956 is one instant at the holiday Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Politics & Government; Popular Culture - United States; Movies; Cinema SEPPUKU, by CLAYTON ESHLEMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coming out of it, a curious Subject(s): Japan; Motion Pictures; Japanese; Movies; Cinema SEVENTEEN QUESTIONS ABOUT KING KONG, by JANE COOPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: If so, what does it tell us about ourselves? Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema STUMPTOWN ATTENDS THE PICTURE SHOW, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Word has come and martha the ticket girl Last Line: Moving in a cloud of dust toward the theater marquee. Subject(s): Canton, Georgia; Motion Pictures; Police; Racism; Southern States; Movies; Cinema; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; South (u.s.) THE AGING ACTRESS SEES HERSELF A STARLET ON THE LATE SHOW, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For centuries only painters, poets, and sculptors Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Motion Pictures; Time; Immortality; Actresses; Movies; Cinema THE BLUE ANGEL, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marlene dietrich is singing a lament Subject(s): Dietrich, Marlene; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema THE COWBOY, by JAMES TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone had spread an elaborate rumor about me, that I was Subject(s): Practical Jokes; Imagination; Motion Pictures; Pranks; Fancy; Movies; Cinema THE DRINK, by RON PADGETT Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I am always interested in the people in films who have just had a drink Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Drinks & Drinking; Movies; Cinema; Wine THE FLIRT, by MAY WILLIAMS WARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the play approaches its climax Last Line: On the other side of him. Subject(s): Flirtation; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema THE HEREAFTER, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the gates to the hereafter Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema THE HUMAN FACE, by MARY KINZIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A film of green, unfocused plush, of fantasy Last Line: This is a being. The one nobody dares portray Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Hauser, Kaspar (1812-1833); Faces; Movies; Cinema THE JAMES BOND MOVIE, by MAY SWENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The popcorn is greasy, and I forgot to bring a kleenex Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema THE LAST MOVIE, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Death; Conduct Of Life; Movies; Cinema; Dead, The THE LOST WORLD, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On my way home I pass a cameraman Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Children; Movies; Cinema; Childhood THE LOVING STRIP, by PAT MORA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not for men alone do we remove our clothes Last Line: Like young seals around our rock. Subject(s): Aunts; Burlesque; Chicanos; Motion Pictures; Swimming & Swimmers; Theater & Theaters; Striptease; Mexican Americans; Movies; Cinema; Swimmers; Stage Life THE MAGIC CARPET, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every american is a movie critic Last Line: "and ""siponelle,"" large worm." Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Paris, France; Writing & Writers; Movies; Cinema THE MOVIE PICTURE COWBOY, by EARL ALONZO BRININSTOOL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cowboy game is busted 'cuz the cattle biz dead Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Cowboys; Movies; Cinema THE MOVIE QUEEN, by MYRTES-MARIE PLUMMER Poem Text First Line: Majestically she sweeps upon the scene Last Line: Reality gives way to glamorous lore. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema THE MOVIES, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would like to watch a movie tonight Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema THE NEW CHINESE FICTION, by JAMES TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although the depiction of living forms Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Motion Pictures; Wit & Humor; Movies; Cinema THE PRISONER OF ZENDA, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: At the end a / 'the prisoner of zenda' Last Line: Is also stewart granger Subject(s): Granger, Stewart (1913-1993); Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema THE REELING BRAIN, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mind is a movie film Last Line: Will applaud ironically. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Reason; Movies; Cinema; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE WAY YOU WEAR YOUR HAT, by RON PADGETT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boing, boing, boing Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Astaire, Fred (1899-1987); Rogers, Ginger (1911-1995); Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema THIS MINNUTE, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The videotape runs Last Line: Watching. and here it starts over Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema TO NORMA SHEARER AS JULIET, by OTTO FREUND Poem Text First Line: The sword-rasp of the quick, fierce duel is dead Last Line: And always your white beauty in my heart. Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Shearer, Norma (1900-1983); Movies; Cinema TRYING TO HELP, by JAMES TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On another planet, a silvery starlet is brooding Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema WANTED, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A white bull, a cassock, an antique mirror Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema WARBLER AT HOWELL'S DRIVE-IN, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You might come here now Last Line: Or gone into briars, pine needles, air? Subject(s): Adolescence; Aging; Decay; Motion Pictures; Teen Agers; Rot; Decadence; Movies; Cinema |
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