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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: OEDIPUS Matches Found: 16 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CLASSICAL PROPORTIONS OF THE HEART; FOR FONTAINE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everyone here knows how it ends, in the stone Last Line: With ease. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Oedipus; Plays & Playwrights; Tragedy EPITAPH: OEDIPUS' NAP, by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scorched to wake lawless, loose Last Line: Pulling the clouds home, balancing massacre %on the rips Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Oedipus JOCASTA, by RUTH F. EISENBERG Poem Source First Line: When she learned the king's power Last Line: She stepped into the air Subject(s): Oedipus; Women MEDITATION ON SAVIORS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I considered it too closely, when I wore it like an element and smelt it like water, Last Line: Shine the sun black; the trap in which it is better to catch the / inhuman god than the hunter's own Subject(s): Oedipus; Jesus Christ; Buddhism; Prophecy & Prophets; Buddha; Buddhists MYTH, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long afterward, oedipus, old and blinded, walked the Subject(s): Oedipus MYTH, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long afterward, oedipus, old and blinded, walked the Last Line: Too. Everyone knows that.' - she said, 'that's what you think Subject(s): Mothers; Mythology - Classical; Oedipus OEDIPUS, by THOMAS BLACKBURN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: His shadow monstrous on the palace wall Subject(s): Oedipus OEDIPUS, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Already night has fled, dim dawns the day Last Line: With me,—with me! Such guides for me are meet. Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca Subject(s): Mythology - Greek; Oedipus; Tragedy OEDIPUS, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, oedipus, the club-foot, made to stumble Subject(s): Oedipus OEDIPUS, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, oedipus, the club-foot, made to stumble Last Line: Our natural steps and the earth and skies from harm Subject(s): Oedipus OEDIPUS AT COLONUS: THE PASSING OF OEDIPUS, by SOPHOCLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How he departed hence, you who stood by Last Line: I ask no grace of those who think them so. Subject(s): Death; Oedipus; Dead, The OEDIPUS: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What sophocles could undertake alone Last Line: To please you more, but burning of a pope. Subject(s): Greece; Oedipus; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Sophocles (496-406 B.c.); Greeks; Dramatists OEDIPUS: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When athens all the grecian state did guide Last Line: The first play bury'd since the wollen act. Subject(s): Greece; Oedipus; Plays & Playwrights ; Greeks; Dramatists THE PHOENICIAN WOMEN, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O guide of thy blind father, only cheer Last Line: Is ever for imperial power paid. Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca Subject(s): Mythology - Greek; Oedipus; Tragedy THRUSH: III. THE WRECK THRUSH, by GEORGE SEFERIS Poem Source First Line: This wood that cooled my forehead Last Line: The way the cicadas all together suddenly fall silent Subject(s): Oedipus TWO RIDDLES, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sphinx was a monster that would eat Last Line: And runs away at last on four? Subject(s): Egypt; Fate; Oedipus; Riddles; Sphinx; Destiny |
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