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Subject: FILM (PHOTOGRAPHY)
Matches Found: 8

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BATTLE OF BRITAIN, by CECIL DAY LEWIS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What did we earth-bound make of it? A tangle
Last Line: Their luck, skill, nerve. And they were young like you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas
Subject(s): Film (photography); Great Britain - History; World War Ii; English History; Second World War


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 AND FLESH, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was watching a movie %about myself
Last Line: I am not film. I am living, I say [or, he said you, the creature of muscle and hair]
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Film (photography); Motion Pictures


FOR BEING UNFAITHFUL THOUGH EVER TRUE, by CHRISTOPHER COOK    Poem Source                    
Last Line: An immortal coil of mortal greed
Subject(s): Film (photography); Riddles


IN THE SLEEP OF REASON, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The pilot, returned, sees the village
Last Line: At 40,000 feet
Subject(s): Air Force - United States; Film (photography); News; War


SCHOOLS OF LITTLE FISH, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Falling in snow beyond the window
Last Line: Until you can carry your brains in your open hands
Subject(s): Film (photography); Fish & Fishing; Photography & Photographers; Anglers


SEQUEL TO A SHARP TURN, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Enter / swallow / each calling
Subject(s): Film (photography); Italy; Screen Writing; Sea Voyages; Travel; Writing & Writers; Italians; Motion Pictures - Play Writing; Journeys; Trips


SEQUEL TO A SHARP TURN, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Enter %swallow %each calling
Last Line: But speak of more cheerful imaginings
Subject(s): Film (photography); Italy; Screen Writing; Sea Voyages; Travel; Writing And Writers