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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: IMPERIALISM Matches Found: 29 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER WIRIYAMU VILLAGE MASSACRE BY PORTUGUESE, by JACK A. MAPANJE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No, go back into your exile, go back quick Last Line: Where is your verse? You have no shame! %no, go back until our anger has simmered Subject(s): Exiles; Imperialism; Malawi; Massacres BALLADE OF EXPANSION, by HILDA JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Time was he sang the british brute Last Line: The ethical expansionist! Subject(s): Imperialism; Philippines; United States; America CHANT OF LAMENTATION, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lament the abandoned / terraces, their shattered Subject(s): Hawaii; Imperialism CHANT OF LAMENTATION, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I lament the abandoned %terraces, their shattered Last Line: Ground-up bones, their %poisoned eyes? Subject(s): Hawaii; Imperialism COLONISATION IN REVERSE, by SIMONE LOUISE BENNETT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wat a joyful new, miss mattie Last Line: Colonizin' in reverse. Alternate Author Name(s): Bennett, Louise Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Imperialism; Jamaica, West Indies; British Empire; England - Empire DISCOURSE ON IMPERIALISM, SELS., by AIME CESAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How did you come to develop the concept of negritude? Last Line: But it is not the only thing Subject(s): Imperialism; Negritude (literary Movement) FRESCO: DEPARTURE FOR AN IMPERIALIST WAR, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They stand there weeping in the stained daylight Last Line: Weeping, their arms embrace the only country they love Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Death; Imperialism; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Anti-war Protests; Dead, The IMPERIAL EVENINGS, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: The emperors have not always donned fresh attire Last Line: As he reassembled his black vertebrae Subject(s): Imperialism; Melancholy IMPERIALISM, by BERTRAND SHADWELL Poem Text First Line: If you see an island shore which has not been grabb'd before Last Line: Crime is christian when it's clearly understood. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Crime & Criminals; Imperialism; Nations; Property; Possessions IMPERIALISM TAKES OFF MY HEAD, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: In the morning, when I awake, %I feel the monster has been translated Last Line: Embrace me, hold me, %be my skin, %beam energy without these chains Subject(s): Imperialism; Language JOHN COMPANY'S SHIPS, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: John company's ships, they sailed the seas Last Line: John company's ships of the days of old. Subject(s): Imperialism; Nostalgia; Ships & Shipping; Trade LIEUTENANT SHELLBACK, R.N.R., by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He has learnt the ways of the ships at sea Last Line: But lieutenant shellback will carry it through. Subject(s): Imperialism; Knowledge; Ships & Shipping MOSQUITO KINGDOM, by ERNESTO CARDENAL Poem Source First Line: The coronation ceremony was held in belize this time Last Line: The librarians say, and it can't be xeroxed; you touch it and it turns to ashes Subject(s): Central America; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Imperialism; Nicaragua; Vanderbilt, Cornelius (1843-1899) MY IMPERIALISM, by TAMURA RYUICHI Poem Source First Line: I sink into bed Last Line: You're neither a commodity %nor human Subject(s): Imperialism; Poetry And Poets NOTES TOWARDS A HISTORY OF IMPERIALISM, by NICHOLAS CHRISTOPHER Poem Source First Line: Our captain gonzalo pizarro Last Line: With the faces of children surround %their eyes flashing like knives Subject(s): Imperialism ODE ON THE OPENING OF THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE, MAY 10,1893, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Six years have fled since rose amid the flowers Last Line: In unity and peace! Subject(s): Imperialism ON REACHING HONH KONG, by HUANG TSUN-HSIEN Poem Source First Line: The waters are those of yao's time Last Line: Yet on the great flags I do not see %our yellow dragon Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Hong-kong; Imperialism ON THE YELLOW SEA: A MAN FROM JAPAN SOUGHT SOME VERSES ..., by QIU JIN Poem Source First Line: Riding the wind for thousands of miles Last Line: But we must exert our strength to turn %heaven and earth aright Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Imperialism RECESSIONAL, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God of our fathers, known of old Last Line: Thy mercy on thy people, lord! Variant Title(s): Lest We Forget! Subject(s): Faith; God; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Humanity; Imperialism; Patriotism; Prayer; Religion; Soldiers; Wealth; Belief; Creed; British Empire; England - Empire; Theology; Riches; Fortunes REPORT ON THE PROTEST IN FRONT OF THE UNITED STATES EMBASSY ..., by DAISY ZAMORA Poem Source First Line: What did lionel rugama say? Last Line: Until at nightfall we disperse Subject(s): Imperialism; Nicaragua ROOM 5600, by ERNESTO CARDENAL Poem Source First Line: They had a happy childhood on the banks of the hudson Last Line: They continued their happy childhood %in room 5600 Subject(s): Imperialism; Nicaragua; Rockefeller (family) SPAIN IN AMERICA, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When scarce the echoes of manila bay Last Line: "thou who wouldst teach us hope, with her who taught us prayer." Subject(s): Imperialism; Pelayo. First Christian King (d. 737); Santiago, Battle Of (1898); Spanish-american War (1898) SPOILS TO THE VICTORS, by ROSS CLARK Poem Source First Line: Always, when the conquerors come Last Line: In every conquered household Subject(s): Human Rights; Imperialism; War; Women THE GARDEN AGAIN, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The romans, retreating from the wilderness Last Line: A compost of leaves and wings. Subject(s): Burma; Imperialism THE GLORY OF 'THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN', by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Aye, take 'the white man's burden' Last Line: Nor liberty mere creed. Subject(s): Freedom; Imperialism; Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); War; Liberty THE IMPERIAL PRAYERS, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silenced the streets with sand of holy hue Last Line: Goes that spoiled, wretched, and mysterious youth. Subject(s): Asia; Death; Imperialism; Inheritance And Succession; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Dead, The THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take up the white man's burden Last Line: The judgment of your peers! Subject(s): Imperialism TO ROOSEVELT, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tis only with the bible or with walt whitman's verse Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Imperialism; Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919); United States TO ROOSEVELT, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The voice that would reach you, hunter, must speak Last Line: And though you have everything, you are lacking one thing: god! Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): America - Exploration; Imperialism; United States |
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