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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CULTURE CONFLICT Matches Found: 28 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` (THAT) (IT GROW), by ANDREA ZANZOTTO Poem Source First Line: That the dark grow %that the dark be just Last Line: Dark has itself, sexualized, humility, %haughtiness, pity Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Love - Cultural Differences AIN'T NEVER GONNA MATTER NOHOW/ TEACHING IN THE CULTURE OF DREAMS, by JANELLE MASTERS Poem Source First Line: I am writing this cuz you say I got to but I ain't goin to turn it in cuz Last Line: Ain't nobody talks like that for real Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Language; Poetry And Poets AN AMERICAN IN BANGKOK, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps the polluted air Last Line: Still he's optimistic. Subject(s): Americans; Culture Conflict; Ignorance; Thailand; Dullness; Stupdity ANY TWO WHEELS, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Firecrackers thundering day and night, and lightning silences Last Line: And white as the snow of one night, all our nights. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Culture Conflict BACKGROUND AND DESIGN, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On tv in a bangkok shop window Last Line: From fiend to lover and back. Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Music & Musicians; Thailand BLUE ISLAND, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: The snow blew Last Line: Yards of blue island Subject(s): African Americans - History; Culture Conflict; Ku Klux Klan; Racism; U.s. - Race Relations BROWN-SKIN, by CHARLES ELMER HUBER Poem Text First Line: Everywhere a black face beams Last Line: Is that brown skin. Subject(s): African Americans; Culture Conflict; Negroes; American Blacks CARNAGE: 5. KULTUR, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If men must murder, pillage, sack, despoil Last Line: To answer him: once rheims was — and louvain! Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Louvain, Belgium; Rheims, France; World War I; First World War COLOPHON, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The occident and the orient Last Line: Dares climb the other? Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Long Island (n.y.); United States; America DUCKS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In her first home each book had a light around it Last Line: The ducks were building a nest. Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Ducks; Family Life; Iran; War; Mallards; Drakes; Relatives; Persia FANNY: 46, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We owe the ancients something. You have read Last Line: They were an ignorant set of men at best Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Knowledge; Literature HAMMOCK, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ Poem Source First Line: The tainos of the antilles Last Line: You can go right down %to the bone Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Ethnic Groups - United States I WOULD REPLY, by MILTON GOLDSMITH Poem Text First Line: If one should say, 'thou art a jew Last Line: "the jew professed them long ago." Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Israel; Jews; Judaism ISSEI, THE JAPANESE LADY, by JESSICA KAWASUNA SAIKI Poem Source First Line: She wears brown as a carapace, annonymous as Last Line: The paper screen, the brown Subject(s): Asian Americans - Japanese; Conversation; Culture Conflict; Friendship; Guests JOE BABES, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Joe babes, the ones named %jolene, rena mae, juanita or loretta Last Line: We were the joe babes. %all of us Subject(s): Children; Culture Conflict; Government; Native Americans - Reservations; Schools KATHMANDU GUEST HOUSE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dogs bark themselves Last Line: On whose faces the times keep changing. Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Travel; Journeys; Trips KNOWING, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: We furthest away from our african mother Last Line: Our differences are our blessings Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Culture Conflict; Ethnic Identity; Women LANGUAGE BARRIER, by F. J. BERGMANN Poem Source First Line: I used to be ashamed of not being in touch with popular culture. It Last Line: Well-prepared individuals are chaining themselves together across %the exits Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Language; Teenagers MEDIAS RES, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The middle's where I wonder why as I wake Last Line: Imagination, I wonder knowing why. Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Indonesia; Travel; Dutch East Indies; Journeys; Trips NOT REACTIVE AND PRODUCING NO STATE, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: The correspondence of its episodes %a constructive development Subject(s): Culture Conflict OUR TONGUES SLAPPED INTO SILENCE, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: In first grade I was five years old, the youngest and smallest in my class Last Line: Made sure our tongues were drowned in the murky waters of assimilation Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Culture Conflict; Language; Native Americans; Native Americans - Education; Navajo Indians; Punishment; U.s. - Race Relations S & M, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: The masochist confesses that his pain Last Line: Even if I have to be ... %what is that word they used? %even if I have to be ... A sadist.' Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Ethnic Groups - United States; Latin America - History; Protest, Social; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Tyranny And Tyrants THE GHOST, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Woodsmoke guides us through the mist Last Line: Wept as though he'd met his future's ghost. Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Thailand; Tourists THE GUIDE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He leads us to our village destination Last Line: The culture with the most things wins. Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Thailand; Tourists THE UNCULTURED MAN, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He does not see nor understand Last Line: All things just commonplace. Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Nature; Seasons THREE SILENCES IN THAILAND, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the mekong's silt-thick flow Last Line: I bear no offering but the abstinence of silence. Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Silence; Thailand TRUE CULTURE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The highest culture is to speak no ill Last Line: From common lips like weeds from marshy soil. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Culture Conflict; Life WOOLWORTHS, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Went to woolworths Last Line: We ducked out of there %and fled on the first bus back to the indian school Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Ethnic Groups - United States; Native Americans - Children; Racism |
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