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Subject: PARALYSIS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AT THE HOSPITAL FOR THE PARALYZED, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I were in the wheelchair next to julia
Subject(s): Hospitals; Paralysis


AT THE HOSPITAL FOR THE PARALYZED, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I were in the wheelchair next to julia
Last Line: You, arrow of eros, once a deer-hunter
Subject(s): Hospitals; Paralysis


I WAS PARALYZED FROM THE WAIST UP, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Out of a tree I hadn't climbed
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Nature; Paralysis


REMINDER, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was a man in the bar tonight
Last Line: That, at least, I could erase
Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Disability; Paralysis; Sex


SACRED EPIGRAM: THE PARALYTIC RECOVERING, by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The scribes are not hesitant to call christ blasphemous
Last Line: In anger, he took up his bed and went forth
Subject(s): Paralysis


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


TO EVA, by OSTEN SJOSTRAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your nakedness is hidden among the luminous autumn leaves
Last Line: I will appear. I will be there
Subject(s): Paralysis; Touch (sense)