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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MODERN MAN Matches Found: 48 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PRAYER FOR TODAY, by CHARLES NELSON PACE Poem Text First Line: Lord, in an age of steel and stone Last Line: Which call life into lordlier ways. Subject(s): Modern Man; Prayer; Religion; Theology CASH POSITIVE, by PETER MCDONALD Poem Source First Line: Two telephones all morning giving each other hell Last Line: This %is the promised land calling, the poor boy on the line? Subject(s): Modern Man CHRIST I WUDINT KNOW NORMAL IF IS SAW IT WHEN, by BILL BISSETT Poem Source First Line: Were yu normal today did yu screw society Last Line: Know yu mean business and know where the business lies Subject(s): Modern Man COMMON MAN, by ARTHUR JAMES MARSHALL SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Somewhere his number must have been betrayed Last Line: And bends where the lamplight ends over the hard %significant puzzle. The ignorant policeman walks t Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, A. J. M. Subject(s): Modern Man DANCING WITH WOLVES, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We've become the place Last Line: As lonely as we hunted the buffalo away. Subject(s): Modern Man; Slavery; Serfs DIRGE, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: 1-2-3 was the number he played but today the number came 3-2-1; Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Death; Death; Depressions, Economic; Gambling; Modern Man; Dead, The; Dead, The; Recessions; Wagering; Betting DIRGE, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 1-2-3 was the number he played but today the number came 3-2-1 Last Line: Dipper; bop, summer rain; %bong. Mr., bong, mr., bong, mr., bong Subject(s): Death; Depressions, Economic; Gambling; Modern Man ESCAPE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we get out of the glass bottles of our own ego Last Line: We shall laugh, and institutions will curl up like burnt paper Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Modern Man FLYING DEEPER INTO THE CENTURY, by PIER GIORGIO DI CICCO Poem Source Subject(s): Modern Man GLENGORMLEY, by DEREK MAHON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wonders are many and none is more wonderful than man Subject(s): Modern Man GLENGORMLEY, by DEREK MAHON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wonders are many and none is more wonderful than man Last Line: Necessity, if not choice. I live here too Subject(s): Modern Man GLOBAL UPSTREAM DIAPER DEVELOPMENT, by DAVID BRESKIN Poem Source First Line: Under thirteen stars and a pearly slice Last Line: It's not cancer. You drunk free flying home Subject(s): Modern Man IF I HAD ONE THING TO SAY, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see words effaced in the footprints of the conquered Subject(s): Creation; Life; Modern Man LIFE CYCLE OF COMMON MAN, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Roughly figured, this man of moderate habits Last Line: Telling the numberless tale of his untold word %which makes the world his apple, and forces him to e Subject(s): Bourgeoisie; Consumerism; Modern Man LOST PARENTS, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It takes a fast car / to lead a double life Subject(s): Modern Man; Popular Culture - United States LOST PARENTS, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It takes a fast car %to lead a double life Last Line: For lost parents %their own age Subject(s): Modern Man; Popular Culture - United States MEN HAVE FORGED, by JAY G. SIGMUND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He wrote in the sand - the wind-blown sands Last Line: Of scabbard and of hilt. Subject(s): Forgiveness; Jesus Christ; Modern Man; Redemption; Clemency MODERN MAN, by KYLE JARRARD Poem Source First Line: 3 a. M. %at the cash machine Last Line: Drunk as hell Subject(s): Modern Man MODERN MAN MEETS HIS ANCESTOR, by STEPHEN ORLEN Poem Source First Line: I'm a modern man, raised in the age of anxiety Last Line: That kid who sang the silly song and survived Alternate Author Name(s): Orlen, Steve Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Modern Man NAKED HIDES, by RICHARD J. FEIN Poem Source First Line: They emerged from tree and bush and forest Last Line: Stucco on the house planted alongside the lot Variant Title(s): Untitle Subject(s): Animals; Change; Evolution; Modern Man NET AND THE SWORD, by DOUGLAS VALENTINE LEPAN Poem Source First Line: Who could dispute his choice Last Line: Among the sun's bright retinue would die, %whose care is how they fall, not why Subject(s): Modern Man OUR MARCH, by VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH MAYAKOVSKY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tramp squares with rebellious treading! Last Line: Our breasts are brass cymbals drumming. Alternate Author Name(s): Mayacovsky, Vladimir Vladimirovich Subject(s): Freedom; Modern Man; Progress; Liberty OUR MARCH, by VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH MAYAKOVSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slog the squares with rebel tramping! Last Line: Our breats are as crashing brass Alternate Author Name(s): Mayacovsky, Vladimir Vladimirovich Subject(s): Freedom; Modern Man; Progress PRAYER, OR NOSTALGIA FOR HEAVEN, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Please, just give me a map, and I'll follow it. Last Line: On all of us, on each earth-bound beauty's sleeping cheek Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Death; Death; Depressions, Economic; Gambling; Modern Man QUIET DESPERATION, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the post office he sees joe mcinnes Subject(s): Modern Man THANKS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listen Last Line: Thank you we are saying and waving %dark though it is Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Modern Man THE CABLES AND THE WIRELESS, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cable-operators swore because they / had lost a word Last Line: And the wireless-workers wondered why a break in the code occurred. Subject(s): Modern Man THE GLASS HOUSE, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I enter at dusk Last Line: Not that, she says, anything but that. Subject(s): Family Life; Houses; Modern Man; Relatives THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Let us go then, you and I Last Line: Till human voices wake us, and we drown. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Aging; Alienation (social Psychology); Apathy; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Modern Man; Paralysis; Estrangement; Outcasts THE POET, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You would procure the oil of forgiveness from the angel Last Line: With great humility, bathed in tears and barefoot. Subject(s): Americanization; Cities; Decay; Modern Man; United States; Urban Life; Rot; Decadence; America THE UNKNOWN CITIZEN, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was found by the bureau of statistics to be Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Bourgeoisie; Bureaucracy; Conformity; Modern Man; Social Protest; Statistics & Statisticians; Middle Class THESE THREE: INTERPRETATION, RESERVATION, REJECTION, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Interpretation, dost thou say Last Line: Wait, wait, 'til satan's bound with chains. Subject(s): Modern Man TIMES AIN'T WHAT THEY WAS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When pa an' ma was married in the days long gone and dead Last Line: An' boys an' girls grow bigger - an' I'm glad to see the day Subject(s): Family Life;modern Man;time;west (u.s.); Relatives;southwest;pacific States TO HIS TEACHER, by ANNE GOODWIN WINSLOW Poem Text First Line: Dear humanist, this roaring street Last Line: Who gravely walks with you. Subject(s): History; Modern Man; Historians TO THE INSECTS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Elders %we have been here so short a time Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Modern Man TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. AFTER CIVILISATION (2), by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the first soft winds of spring, while snow yet lay on the ground Last Line: Looking out over the earth, on which he was once a mortal. Subject(s): Democracy; Life Change Events; Modern Man TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, by KEVIN HART Poem Source First Line: When we arrive there Last Line: Across the fields of sadness, walking towards the horizon Subject(s): Human Rights; Modern Man; Twentieth Century; War TWO: 1, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The season 'tis, my lovely lambs Last Line: Pulled six months for selling snow Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Modern Man UNKNOWN CITIZEN, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was found by the bureau of statistics to be Last Line: Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd: %had anything been wrong, we should certainly hav Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Bourgeoisie; Bureaucracy; Conformity; Modern Man; Social Protest; Statistics And Statisticians VARICK STREET, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: At night the factories Last Line: Sell you, of course, my dear, and you'll sell me Subject(s): Modern Man; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple VARICK STREET, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At night the factories Subject(s): Modern Man; New York City VISION OR DREAM, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: On a bed of soft mosses, I lay 'neath the trees Last Line: He went as he came—in vision or dream. Subject(s): Bible; Books; Dreams; Knowledge; Modern Man; Religious Education; Teaching & Teachers; Reading; Nightmares; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Educators; Professors WASP SEX MYTH (ONE), by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When he comes home at night Last Line: He has too many at home Subject(s): Modern Man WASP SEX MYTH (TWO), by ANSELM HOLLO Poet's Biography First Line: Ted & marge had been married eight years. The first three, ted was insane Subject(s): Modern Man WASP SEX MYTH (TWO), by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ted & marge had been married eight years. The first three, ted was insane Last Line: He let marge up only long enough to get food & drink occasionally Subject(s): Modern Man WHO'S WHO, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A shilling life will give you all the facts Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Modern Man WHO'S WHO, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A shilling life will give you all the facts Last Line: Of his long marvellous letters but kept none Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Modern Man WITNESS PROTECTION PROGRAM, by DAVID BRESKIN Poem Source First Line: Food is the gun that plows the poor Last Line: The sky into pieces - from his wheel chair Subject(s): Modern Man |
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