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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: IRONY Matches Found: 46 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DREAM OF WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were dead, but how sleek and darkly calm you were! Last Line: Lying, saying I cared nothing about form.... Subject(s): Creative Ability; Dreams; Irony; Play; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Inspiration; Creativity; Nightmares A LITTLE SONG ABOUT CHARITY, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boss came around at christmas Subject(s): Charity; Communism; Economics; Irony; Labor Unions; Socialism; Philanthropy A MERRY HEART: GOIN' SHOOTIN', by THELMA LUCILE LULL Poem Text First Line: I took me out a-hunting for to bag a gamesome kill Last Line: Holds still some eight professors on the dead tree limb! Subject(s): Comedy; Guns; Hunting; Irony; Teaching & Teachers; Hunters A MINOR CHARACTER IN AN OBSCURE LEGEND, by PETER JOHNSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once he dated a ukrainian girl Subject(s): Irony; Marriage; Prejudice; Ukraine; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bias; Intolerance A PERIOD PORTRAIT OF SYMPATHY, by EDWARD DORN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Captain emmet crawford Last Line: And the scouts love his weirdness Subject(s): West (u.s.); Apache Indians; Scouting & Scouts; Irony; Southwest; Pacific States A ROOF IS GOOD, by MARY CRUMP BOULDIN Poem Text First Line: When you speak of the open space Last Line: Of reality. Subject(s): Irony DISAGREEABLE ADVICE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always, sweetheart Last Line: Of mirth; then the dripping of tears on your glove. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Variant Title(s): Irony Subject(s): Irony EAGLE AND THE DRY LEAF, by SANTIAGO H. ARGUELLO Poem Source First Line: One day the eagle said, with pride: 'none can soar up %like me! Last Line: Then higher than the eagles the dry leaves rise and soar! Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Irony; Self-gratification EIGHT LYRICS: FOR TIRESIAS, by GEORGE PALMER GARRETT JR. Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Speak to us who %are also split Last Line: To life or death. %blinder than you Alternate Author Name(s): Garrett, George Variant Title(s): Eight Lyrics: 2. For Tiresia Subject(s): Irony ELEGY ON DEPLORABLE DEATH OF MR. THOMAS SHERIDAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "assist with mournful strains, assist, my muse" Last Line: His fellow surely is not to be found Subject(s): "irony;sheridan, Thomas (1687-1738); EPITAPH FOR A REAL ESTATE DEALER, by HENRY HARRISON Poem Text First Line: And now he has no single plot of ground Last Line: Excepting that in which he sleeps so sound! Subject(s): Epitaphs; Irony FISH OF THE GODS, by RALPH LINTON Poem Text First Line: Fish of the gods! The gods who called for blood Last Line: Perhaps the sportsmen throw us in again. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; God; Hunting; Irony; Anglers; Hunters FROST AND HIS ENEMIES, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When robert frost set down a poetic whim, Last Line: Or a patch of snow or the steeple of a church. Subject(s): Fate; Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Innocence; Irony; Poetry & Poets; Truth; Destiny IRONY, by GLADYS BROWN DENISON Poem Text First Line: A brave young pine tree Last Line: The pine tree reaches for. Subject(s): Irony IRONY, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yang lian, poet in exile, said he didn't think there was a word for Last Line: Nist can begin when even two lesser things fracture and pull Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Irony IRONY, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You gave me my work to do, you brought and set it before me Last Line: Why did you seal my lips and crush the song in my throat? Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Heaven; Irony; Laughter; Paradise IRONY, by THOMAS LUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Irony; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature IRONY, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus spake a man in days of old Last Line: ...A bag of lead! Subject(s): God; Irony IRONY IS NOT ENOUGH: ESSAY ON MY LIFE AS CATHERINE DENEUVE (2D DRAFT), by ANNE CARSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beginnings are hard. Sappho put it sumply. Speaking of a young girl Last Line: Lengths inch forward, not touching Subject(s): Deneuve, Catherine; Irony IRONY OF FATE, by GRACE JERVIS SMITH Poem Text First Line: When I would soar on wings of song Last Line: "is that new patch sewed in?" Subject(s): Irony; Mothers LITERARY IRONY, by LOUIS PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: Jack, bobby, teddy - the kennedys Last Line: Life can't be as tragic as all this Subject(s): Irony LOOKING UP FROM TWO RENAISSANCE PAINTINGS TO MASSACRE TIANANMEN SQUARE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fruit flies lift off the bowl of brown pears Last Line: Will drag over the ground. Subject(s): Irony; Paintings & Painters; Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 MINOR CHARACTER IN AN OBSCURE LEGEND, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once he dated a ukrainian girl Last Line: Big as a horse Subject(s): Irony; Marriage; Prejudice; Ukraine OF A CERTAIN POET, by BENJAMIN FRANCIS MUSSER Poem Text First Line: Sanely they told the sensitive youth Last Line: They spoke the truth. Subject(s): Irony; Poetry & Poets ON A HYMN-BOOK, by WILLIAM J. HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: Old hymn-book, sure I thought I'd lost you Last Line: Mrs. Samuel jones. Subject(s): Courtship; Hymns (as Literary Form); Irony; Public Worship; Church Attendance ON THE DAY IRONY IS IMPOSSIBLE, by GAYLORD BREWER Poem Source First Line: You may find yourself Last Line: Not a chair. %try something larger Subject(s): Irony ON THE SAND, by RUTH CLAY PRICE Poem Text First Line: Do ghost lobsters mock this scrap Last Line: Knowing lobsters, traps, and me. Subject(s): Hunting; Irony; Lobsters; Seashore; Hunters; Beach; Coast; Shore OUR WRONGS, by C. F. H. Poem Text First Line: When girls are only babies Last Line: We can't -- can't -- can't. Subject(s): Irony; Kisses PEOPLE ARE SO BUSY: OR: THAT'S LIFE, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dying man Last Line: To borrow his bed Subject(s): Irony PIOUS JOHN, by HENRY REICH JR. Poem Text First Line: All's good in nature, pious john maintains Last Line: John, struck by lightnin', lived to cuss like thunder. Subject(s): Comedy; Irony; Piety SANCTITY, by PATRICK KAVANAGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To be a poet and not know the trade Last Line: The agonising pincer-jaws of heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick Subject(s): Irony SCHLUCK AND JAU, by GERHART HAUPTMANN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I bow me to the master of the hunt Last Line: Well, well, well, well, you are a devil of a fellow! Subject(s): Irony; Masques SECOND SPRING, by MARIE SKIPPER Poem Text First Line: Chinaberry blossoms Last Line: For a tiny grave. Subject(s): Irony; Mourning; Bereavement SONNET ENDING WITH A FILM SUBTITLE, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Irony SONNET ENDING WITH A FILM SUBTITLE, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Irony THE CLOUD CONFINES, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day is dark and the night Last Line: "that shall we know one day." Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Irony THE HERETIC: 2. IRONY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why are the things that have no death Last Line: And so he dies. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Irony; Mankind; Human Race THE NEED FOR STOICISM IN THE STOA OF ATTALUS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pitcher that went to the well too often Last Line: And the urinals (by crane) have all gone to pot Subject(s): Irony; Stoicism THE RUINED MAID, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O 'melia, my dear, this does everything crown! Last Line: Cannot quite expect that. You ain't ruined,' said she. Subject(s): Irony; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels THE WIDOW'S MITE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: She was a widow stern and spry Last Line: And he died from the widow's might Subject(s): Irony THREE FUNCTIONS OF IRONY, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: 1, the shield Last Line: 3. The ambush Subject(s): Irony; Shields TO THE KINGS, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you've fulfilled the measure of your pride Last Line: And shake your kingdoms with its irony! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Irony; Skulls; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The USA-1000, by SUSAN BROWN Poem Source First Line: Every night between flo's kiss my grits Last Line: Knots smooth, forgetting how wood wears each season %wheels traveling in the same crooked grooves Subject(s): Irony VICTORIAN LADIES, by MILDRED HATTON BRYAN Poem Text First Line: This picture that you see, sir, on the wall Last Line: "you've seen her often here. My daughter, sir!" Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Irony; Youth WHO'LL TEND BABY?, by E. E. Poem Text First Line: Who'll take care of the baby?' Last Line: "she went to pay her taxes!" Subject(s): Babies; Children; Irony; Nonsense; Infants; Childhood YOU CAN START THE POETRY NOW, OR: NEWS FROM CRAZY, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I guess all I'm trying to say is I saw crazy horse die for Last Line: Start the poetry!! Start the poetry now!! Subject(s): Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief); Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876); Irony; Native Americans; Poetry & Poets; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America |
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