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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: IDENTITY Matches Found: 153 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CAPELLA, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ms. Steiger said, write about who you are. Last Line: I am singing out Subject(s): Chicanos; Identity; Self; Mexican Americans A POET RECOGNIZING THE ECHO OF THE VOICE, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are burning Subject(s): Absence; Beauty; Identity; Sexism; Women; Women's Rights; Separation; Isolation; Feminism ACTING, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the best sense Last Line: And become. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Identity AFRIKAN FLAG, by DEIDRA SUWANEE DEES Poem Source First Line: When she was a child Last Line: Making them accept their blame Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Ethnic Identity AFTER LOVE, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Afterwards, the compromise Last Line: The wolf, the mongering wolf %who stands outside the self %lay lightly down, and slept Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Identity AGONY. AS NOW, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am inside someone %who hates me Last Line: Inside it. And that thing %screams Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Identity; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations AN AGONY. AS NOW, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am inside someone / who hates me Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Identity; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations AND WHAT'S YOUR DERIVATIONAL PROFILE?, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whammo ammo, the ammo of choice Last Line: Some time next year Subject(s): Identity APPREHENDEE THEN EXITED VEE-HICLE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sorry, said the cop who had shot me Subject(s): Identity; Police; Wit & Humor ARTIST, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: To liberate myself %I shall tell a story Last Line: And won't get a pulitzer prize %for simply surviving Subject(s): Identity; Women AS A BLADE OF GRASS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: My color Last Line: Pointing %to the stars Subject(s): Identity AT DAYBREAK, by ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the train window at daybreak Last Line: The train picking up speed Subject(s): Identity; Morning BABBLING, by JOSE OSWALD DE SOUZA ANDRADE Poem Source First Line: Cabralism. The civiliation of the donees. The willing Last Line: Dance. The vegatation. Brazilwood Subject(s): Brazil; Ethnic Identity; History; Poetry And Poets BEING SOMEBODY, by EDWIN HONIG Poem Source First Line: He had need of a way %to be himself Last Line: Of course he was wrong-- %but what if he was %completely somebody else? Subject(s): Identity BENHAM'S DISK: 3. CHROMATOPHORE, by JANICE N. HARRINGTON Poem Source First Line: Beside an abandoned mine Last Line: Salt, tenderness, heat, and insubstantial light: %the skin's vocabulary Subject(s): Biology And Biologists; Identity; Skin BESIDE MILL RIVER, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my key sticks in the neighbor's Last Line: High-rise of sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Houses; Identity; Neighbors BIRCH CANOE, by CARTER REVARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Red men embraced my body's whiteness Last Line: At home in the fish's fallen heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Identity; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians BITTERS, by ROSE PORTER Poem Text First Line: Why do I keep remembering Last Line: To remember? Subject(s): Identity BLUES SUITE, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: Black %bitter %coffee Last Line: Please don't panic Subject(s): Identity; Women CARIBBEAN: LANGUAGE AS TRANSLUCENT IMMINENCE, by WILL ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Language being the primal conductor of liberty becomes the mag Last Line: Which a beacon mesmerically burns with the stars of a translucent imminence Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Identity; Language Poetry; Tongues COME TO THINK OF IT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Who you are Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Identity; Introspection; Nature; Self CONFEDERATE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He doesn't look like a citadel cadet Variant Title(s): No Bumper Sticker Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; India CONFEDERATE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He doesn't look like a citadel cadet Last Line: On my face never turned me porcelain Variant Title(s): No Bumper Sticke Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; India COUSIN ELLA GOES TO TOWN, by GEORGE ELLA LYON Poem Source First Line: Now you have to promise Subject(s): Family Life; Identity DEAR GOD, / I AM DYING, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source Last Line: All of my friends %are doing shows Subject(s): Identity; Women DO NOT BEAR MALICE TOWARD THE THATCH, by MICAH ICHEGBEH Poem Source First Line: They have killed a great animal with the mouth for me! Last Line: One, do not bear malice toward agana, your father's son Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; Igede (african People) DOOR TO THE SECOND INFINITY, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The inkwell periscope lies in wait around the bend Last Line: With a direct line / to fear Subject(s): Surrealism; Death; Identity; Poetry & Poets DOUBLE DUTCH, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dutch on both sides of his family tree-now I can Last Line: I'm dutch. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Identity; Nations; Netherlands; Holland; Dutch People DREAM OF MYSELF AS A FISH, by DANUTA VIDALI Poem Source First Line: Two lines drew me Last Line: My own Subject(s): Dreams; Fishing And Fishermen; Identity ELEGY, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: A gun shoved to my head Last Line: Flying from the roof of a tenement Subject(s): Identity; Women EXISTING LIGHT; FOR LEE NYE, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A picture is worth a thousand words Last Line: Where I stood, half woman, half nun, exposed. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Identity; Nuns; Secrets EXITS AND ENTRANCES, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Through random doors we wandered Last Line: But armed with the invincible sword and shield %of our own names and faces Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Identity EYES ON THE PRIZE, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: Shrouded in this circle of flames Last Line: Do you hear me? %you are free Subject(s): Identity; Women FACE YOU LOOK OUT OF, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Your lover looks into Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Faces; Identity; Love - Nature Of; Nature FINAL SOLUTION, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: Last night in your arms Last Line: There will be a final solution Subject(s): Identity; Women FRANCE, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Half artist and half anchorite Last Line: Jeanne d'arc! Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): France; Identity; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Nations; War GRANDMOTHER GRANT, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not the rejected lies of the new york foundling Last Line: Here is my claim. I need to come into my own. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Identity; Mothers & Daughters; Nuns HELPFUL HINTS FOR AN ASPIRING MARTYR, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: Find someone unable to assist themselves Last Line: Build a wall of resentment around you %repeat pattern Subject(s): Identity; Women HILLS, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Overhead in the paris sky Last Line: And all the fragrance of the rose Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Identity; Paris, France HISTORY HASN'T TOLD THE TRUTH ABOUT REVOLUTIONARIES, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source Last Line: Is what she felt Subject(s): Identity; Women HOLD THE WIRE, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the doorbell rings and we think we were followed Subject(s): Identity HUMAN MAP, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: You will be happy to know someone has asked our cells to tell Last Line: Our bodies' code will crack. They will have their map Subject(s): Blood; Dna; Ethnic Identity; Science I AM NOT I, by PETER TURRINI Poem Source Subject(s): Identity I COULD HAVE BEEN LORD DACRE, by PETER NORMAN Poem Source First Line: I could have been lord dacre or a balalaika-maker Last Line: But I'm only jeffrey archer and I'll never win the booker! Subject(s): Identity; Tongue Twisters I HAVEN'T TOLD YOU, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source Last Line: And the world built an arc %of our tears Subject(s): Identity; Women I.D. BRACELETS, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: Outside the kitchen window, even the flimsy birds Last Line: How do you put your hand through them Subject(s): Identity; Introspection IDENTITY, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: But the eye of god Last Line: That is his own bad eyesight. Subject(s): Identity; Mankind; Men; Self; Human Race IDENTITY CARD, by MAHMOUD DARWISH Poem Source First Line: Put it on record %I am an arab Last Line: Beware, beware of my hunger %and of my anger Subject(s): Exiles; Identity; Middle East - Conflicts IDENTITY CARD, by YANNIS RITSOS Poem Source First Line: He who walks motionless through time with Subject(s): Identity IDENTITY CARD, by SUSAN TICHY Poem Source First Line: For a living I pick apples Last Line: For a living I am insomniac %and drunk--all the time-- %likea bee in a wet spring bloom Subject(s): Identity IDENTITY CRISIS, by PHILIP ANTHONY WATERHOUSE Poem Source First Line: The package arrived five years ago Last Line: Nonsense, of course, I know who %I am. Of course Subject(s): Identity; Writing And Writers IF I STAND IN MY WINDOW, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Praying in tongues Subject(s): African Americans – Women; Identity; Nudity IF I WERE YOU, by CARRIE BURRINGTON Poem Text First Line: If you were I, and I were you Last Line: If you were I, and I were you! Subject(s): Identity IMAGINE BEING MORE AFRAID OF FREEDOM THAN SLAVERY, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: The saddest thing in the world Last Line: And ultimately go where I want Subject(s): Identity; Women IN PASSING, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From a half block off I see you coming, Subject(s): Hope; Identity; Memory; Optimism IN THE FIRST STANZA, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First, I tell you who I am Last Line: I tell you who I am. Subject(s): Identity; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism INCEST, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: My father wants to f... Me Last Line: When truth is too hard %to face Subject(s): Identity; Women INDIVIDUALITY, by RUTH ROWLETT CHURCH Poem Text First Line: The tree that stands alone - in majesty Last Line: As to the ones who stand alone supreme. Subject(s): Identity INTERVALS, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Who/am I Subject(s): Identity ISTANBUL, by ZEHRA CIRAC Poem Source First Line: From istanbul to istanbul Last Line: And search for instanbul Subject(s): Identity; Istanbul, Turkey IT IS NOT A NEW AGE, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: When a gay man is beaten to death Last Line: It is not a new age Subject(s): Identity; Women JEALOUSY, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: Nothing prepared me Last Line: You are a woman I loved %a long time ago Subject(s): Identity; Women KEEPING MY NAME, by LINDA MIZEJEWSKI Poem Source First Line: Love shouldn't make it vanish Last Line: Of the plucked-out ribs Subject(s): Identity; Names; Women 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 LANGUAGES I'VE NEVER LEARNED, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: She collected women like trophies Last Line: And I started speaking in %languages I've never learned Subject(s): Identity; Women LET'S PRESERVE IGEDE, by MICAH ICHEGBEH Poem Source First Line: I pay my respects to you, to start with Last Line: I will speak my father's igede Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; Igede (african People) LOOK, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: And record them in the albums of life Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Identity; Photography And Photographers; Pictures LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 20, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is there? Me Last Line: And we are us Subject(s): Identity; Relationships; Self MANE STORY, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Straight hair, black hair, brown hair, coarse hair, horse hair Last Line: Over paper is the sound of seeds tumbling inside a dry gourd Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Ethnic Identity; Native Americans - Women MIRROR, by ALICE PHELPS RIDER Poem Text First Line: I am not what I was Last Line: Because of the past and the future. Subject(s): Identity MON SECRET, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Je demande qu'on me doone Last Line: Arrangera tout pour mon bien Subject(s): Identity; Psychiatric Hospitals; Secrets MONOLOGUE TO GOD, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: Every time I gain some ground Last Line: In having her suffer Subject(s): Identity; Women MOTHER TONGUES-III, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Just think, all those tongues Last Line: People of africa, were %standing upright Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Art And Artists; Ethnic Identity; Poetry And Poets; Rwanda; U.s. - Race Relations MULAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Tsiek tsiek and again tsiek tsiek Last Line: How can I tell if I am he or she? Subject(s): Homecoming; Identity; Soldiers; Women MULTIPLE IDENTITY QUESTIONNAIRE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm a jew? A nice jewish boy? Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Jews; Buddhism; Self; Identity; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MY GUEST, by BENEDICT AUER Poem Source First Line: A stranger %lives in my room Last Line: So as not to disturb %his tranquility Subject(s): Identity; Self; Self-consciousness MY LAST NAME, by NICOLAS GUILLEN Poem Source First Line: Ever since school Last Line: Foreign and free as the air Subject(s): African Americans; Ancestors And Ancestry; Ethnic Identity; Freedom; Slavery MY NAME, by JOHN MINCZESKI Poem Source First Line: My name arived from poland in 1910 stowed away in the engine room Last Line: Given it years of pain. My name has forgotten how to cry Subject(s): Identity; Immigrants; Names; Poland MY SECRET, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I demand that they give me a bed Last Line: And arrange things for my welfare Subject(s): Identity; Psychiatric Hospitals; Secrets MY SKELETON, MY RIVAL, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Interesting that I have to live with my skeleton Last Line: And I its friend, shielding it from harm Subject(s): Skeletons; Identity; Death; Dead, The MYSELF I SING, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Me! He says, hand on his chest Subject(s): Self-reliance; Identity; Americans NAMELESS WOMAN, by NO CHUN-MYUNG Poem Source First Line: I wish to be a nameless woman Last Line: I shall be happier than a queen Subject(s): Identity; Women NATIVE PRIDE, by ALICIA SWIMMER Poem Source First Line: This is something on my mind Last Line: Or experience crazy horse's wrath Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Ethnic Identity; Racism NEW YORK, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: They came from suburbs Last Line: As if they could answer %why Subject(s): Identity; Women NOT LIKE A SOCK. THE ONE, by MARY MAHER Poem Source Last Line: And looks for in water Subject(s): Identity; Riddles NOT THINKING OF HIMSELF, by JACK ELLIOTT MYERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today,' he said to the mirror, 'the person I am inside of' Last Line: Might give him a bigger head start Subject(s): Identity NOTHING IS TAKEN THAT IS NOT GIVEN, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rap beat of arrested development flared through the red Last Line: Nothing was taken that was not given Subject(s): Anthropology; Ethnic Identity; Explorers; Native Americans - History; Native Americans - Reservations; Tourists; Travel PARITY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My uncle believed he had Subject(s): Character; Identity; Self PARITY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My uncle believed he had Last Line: And go about his business Subject(s): Character; Identity; Self PLANET OF THE APES, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: On saturday afternoons Last Line: Planet of the apes Subject(s): Identity; Women POET RECOGNIZING THE ECHO OF THE VOICE, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are burning Last Line: You have used our skulls %for ashtrays Subject(s): Absence; Beauty; Identity; Sexism; Women; Women's Rights PRECIOUS CRAZY GIRL GIGGLES, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: Collard greens, bluefish, brown rice Last Line: And kiss %the morning we met Subject(s): Identity; Women PUNISHMENT, by KIM KWANG-SUP Poem Source First Line: I, number 2,223 %draped in the garb of a prisoner Last Line: As for me, though you give me your country, I'll spurn it Subject(s): Human Rights; Identity; Prisons And Prisoners; Punishment PUSHING ENDS, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: As something that fosters %the beautiful Subject(s): Identity; Poetry And Poets RAPUNZEL, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: Rapunzel was a sister Last Line: And she did not need any rescuing Subject(s): Identity; Women RECOGNITION, by MIRIAM TEICHNER Poem Text First Line: So-you have 'recognized' the jew? Last Line: "since, wisely, now you ""recognize"" the jew." Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Judaism; Arab-israeli Conflict REPUBLICANS THINK THAT ALL OVER THE WORLD, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Than they are. It's largely true Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; Nature; Politics REVOLUTIONARY, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: Psychotherapy is indulgent Last Line: Still can't control anyone %except myself Subject(s): Identity; Women RIDE TO THE WEDDING, by PHEBUS ETIENNE Poem Source First Line: I said goodbye to another piece of childhood Last Line: I hid myself, as if defending what I am Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; Growth; Tolerance RUNNING ACROSS TO THE LOT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Our fathers were dead and %our brothers were dying Subject(s): African Americans - History; Despair; Ethnic Identity; Slavery SAY PARDON TO A BUM, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And follow your own will / in the open spaces ahead Subject(s): Liberty; Identity; Begging & Beggars SECOND-HAND COAT, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I feel / in her pockets; she wore nice cotton gloves, Subject(s): Identity SECOND-HAND COAT, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I feel Last Line: Get your purse, have you got your keys? Subject(s): Identity SELF AND SOUL TAKE TWO, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My hair was black as night sea Last Line: In my name and a red door to the house Subject(s): Identity; Self; Soul SELF-DEPENDENCE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weary of myself, and sick of asking Last Line: "who finds himself, loses his misery!" Subject(s): Identity; Self-reliance SELF-PORTRAIT, by ATTIPAT KRISHNASWAMI RAMANUJAN Poem Source First Line: I resemble everyone Last Line: Often signed in a corner %by my father Subject(s): Identity SEVEN SIDES AND SEVEN SYLLABLES; FOR AIMEE CESAIRE AND PIERRE EMMANUEL, by EDOUARD J. MAUNICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happen you come on your own Last Line: With this, my derisive voice. Subject(s): Exiles; Identity; Negritude (literary Movement); Poetry & Poets SILVER BADGE, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: Kim had black velvet skin Last Line: Standing on the glistening concrete %of boston's combat zone Subject(s): Identity; Women SOGNO DI MI STESSA COME PESCE, by DANUTA VIDALI Poem Source First Line: Da due lenze ero attratta Last Line: Che non era mio Subject(s): Dreams; Fishing And Fishermen; Identity SOMEONE ELSE, by GAIL RIXEN Poem Source First Line: There is always someone else Last Line: Of a hundred, you know Subject(s): Mistaken Identity SONG OF THE ROUND MEN, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The round and sad-eyed man puffed cigars as if Subject(s): Grief; Identity; Sorrow; Sadness SONNET TO MY FRIEND, WITH AN IDENTITY DISC, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If ever I had dreamed of my dead name Last Line: Until the name grow blurred and fade away. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Identity; Soldiers' Writings SPEAKING TREE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great alexander sailing was from his true course turned Last Line: It calls your name. It tells what we mean Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.); Identity; Trees STAR VEHICLES: THE GARBO INDEX, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dead friend vito praised garbo's last scene in queen christina Last Line: With the tranquililty of all final compositions Subject(s): Garbo, Greta (1905-1990); Gays & Lesbians; Identity; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men STEW, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: California lilac, ceanothus, embraced Last Line: And looking towards the stew Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Guests; Identity; Loss STILL DO I KEEP MY LOOK, MY IDENTITY €¦, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each body has its art, its precious prescribed Subject(s): Identity STORYVILLE DIARY, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot now remember the first word Subject(s): Bellocq, E. J.; Fathers; Identity; Nudity; Photography & Photographers; Portraits; Prostitution; Storyville, New Orleans; Nakedness; Harlots; Whores; Brothels STRANGER, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Looking as I've looked before Last Line: The letters of my name are written under the lids %of the newborn child Subject(s): Identity STRETCH MARKS AND CELLULITE, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: Mirror, mirror, on the wall Last Line: And mothers don't always %regain their shapes Subject(s): Identity; Women TEACHING, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: You can tell an abused kid Last Line: And questions not answered %but asked Subject(s): Identity; Women TEX-MEX, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moonlight softens the hardwood Last Line: Home with the wrong gigi Subject(s): Identity THANK YOU, by MICAH ICHEGBEH Poem Source First Line: Father of children, I welcome you Last Line: This is our common home Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; Gratitude; Igede (african People) THAT I COULD BE ONE OF YOU, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: That I could be one of you, humble of the earth, mute of being Last Line: And be revealed again in the light of one man's eye and form of %his face Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Identity THE CARIBBEAN: LANGUAGE AS TRANSLUCENT IMMINENCE, by WILL ALEXANDER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Language being the primal conductor of liberty becomes the mag Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Identity; Language Poetry; Tongues THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 20, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is there? Me Last Line: And we are us Subject(s): Identity; Relationships; Self THE MOURNING BRIDE, by WILLIAM CONGREVE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The time has been when plays were not so plenty Last Line: Which was an offering to the sex designed. Subject(s): Impostors & Imposture; Mistaken Identity; Suicide; Tragedy THE PRINCIPLES OF CONCEALMENT, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: If you're caught in the open Subject(s): Identity THE SPEAKING TREE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great alexander sailing was from his true course turned Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.); Identity; Trees THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF RIVERS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rivers of my life Last Line: Comfortably on the ground, beginning to roll. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Identity; Life; Memory; Nature; Relationships; Rivers THE TWINS, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good and bad are in my heart Last Line: That the other was the best. Subject(s): Evil; Identity; Men; Twins; Virtue THE WAY IT WAS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked out quietly Last Line: Trying to be white Subject(s): African Americans – Women; Identity THE WINDOW, by LYNDA HULL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Streak of world blurred charcoal & scarlet, the el slows, Last Line: That thing which shines & doth so much torment us Alternate Author Name(s): Wojahn, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Identity; Conduct Of Life THE WOMAN AT THE WASHINGTON ZOO, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The saris go by me from the embassies Subject(s): Identity; Zoos THINGS (FOR AN INDIAN) TO DO IN NEW YORK (CITY), by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walk down the avenue of the americas Last Line: She loves me, she loves me Subject(s): New York City; Native Americans; Identity; Urban Life TO SEE WHO WE ARE AND WERE, by ELISABETH MURAWSKI Poem Source First Line: I start in their bedroom with its brown linoleum Last Line: Every pore as I turn, raw initiate, inside my mother's house Subject(s): Identity TO T.H., A LADY RESEMBLING MY MISTRESS, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair copy of my celia's face Last Line: Only because you are her coin. Subject(s): Identity TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. NOTHING LESS THAN ALL, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All, all - and nothing less than all Last Line: And shall be content with nothing less than all. Subject(s): Identity; Self-satisfaction TRUE MYTH, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: Tell a child she is composed of parts Last Line: She is the myth that is true Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Identity; Women UNDERESTIMATION OF POWER, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: When daddy pushed me and girlhood innocence Last Line: They underestimated my power Subject(s): Identity; Women WAS YOU BORN HERE?, by LEIGH PALMER Poem Source First Line: Cause you don't talk like you Last Line: You're from somewhere, aren't you?' Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; Immigrants; Strangers WEARING BREASTS, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: I sit back in the city Last Line: Among creatures that stare from green mud Subject(s): Identity; Introspection WHERE I'M FROM, by SELENE STEESE Poem Source First Line: None of my ancestors %were settlers Last Line: Nothing was ever settled %in my family Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Identity WHERE I'VE BEEN ALL MY LIFE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sirs, in our youth you love the sight of us Last Line: Come die with me in the mosques of rotterdam. Subject(s): China; Ethnic Identity; Identity; Netherlands; Rotterdam, Netherlands; Self-consciousness; Travel; Women; Women's Rights; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips; Feminism WHERE WAS IT I, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Identity WHO AM I AND WHAT AM I, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: Who am I and what am I Last Line: Look - - and float on its way in the silence Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Identity WHO IS THIS THAT COMETH UP NOT ALONE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Who is this? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Marriage; Identity WHO KNOWS?, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO Poem Source First Line: Oh indian watching from the doorway Last Line: Ah, my lord: who knows? Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; Incas; Peru WHY DID YOU HAVE TO BE A POET?, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: My mouth jammed %full of peanut butter Last Line: And a cigarette in the morning Subject(s): Identity; Women WOMAN AT THE WASHINGTON ZOO, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The saris go by me from the embassies Last Line: You see what I am: change me, change me! Subject(s): Identity; Zoos WOMAN IN LOVE 1, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: It's easy to be a slave Last Line: From soul searching Subject(s): Identity; Women WOMAN IN LOVE 2, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: She was my shelter Last Line: Is that too much to ask for Subject(s): Identity; Women WOODS, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: Too far to turn back Last Line: Far from where I was Subject(s): Identity; Women YOUR SOUL, by ALEJANDRO GUANES Poem Source First Line: If the eye is a mirror that reflects the soul, then the women Last Line: Let me, in delirium, see your soul in a kiss! Subject(s): Deception; Ethnic Identity; Paraguay; Women |
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