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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SELF-CRITICISM Matches Found: 29 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SECRET SIGH, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Guilty, guilty, must I crie Last Line: With such enamouring grace art pleasd to move. Subject(s): Confessions; Self-criticism ABASEMENT, by THOMAS ANSTEY GUTHERIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With matted head a-dabble in the dust Last Line: Yet learn that strange delight may lurk in self-disgust. Alternate Author Name(s): Anstey, F. Subject(s): Eyes; Poverty; Self-criticism ADVANTAGES OF LEARNING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a man with no ambitions Last Line: Nymphomaniacs of my imagination Subject(s): Learning; Self-criticism CONGRATULATING WEDGE, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All things belie me, I think, but I Last Line: May—june 1983 Subject(s): Self-criticism DON'T THINK, by AHMAD FARAZ Poem Source First Line: And she %pouring red wine into my glass Last Line: Don't think so much Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Human Rights; Memory; Self-criticism; Thought EVERYTHINGS A VERB, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: Boundaries or the lack thereof Last Line: My junk yard dog husband Subject(s): Marriage; Psychology; Self-criticism FALLOUT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: If I shake myself Last Line: Who knows what'll fall out? Subject(s): Self-criticism FOOL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The day I knew my world is one of the glimpses Last Line: Then I asked myself if anyone has ever %seen anybody whole. Subject(s): Fools; Self-criticism; Truth; Writing And Writers FOOLISH ME, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Would never turn Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Nature; Self-criticism I AM FIFTY-TWO YEARS OLD', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: ?Took me cruising on his yacht Subject(s): Middle Age; Self-criticism; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes I AM FIFTY-TWO YEARS OLD', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is better not to be rich Subject(s): Middle Age; Self-criticism; Wealth LAST WORDS OF A SEVENTH-RATE POET, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bill, I feel far from quite right -- if not further: already the pill Last Line: Jam satis. Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Self-criticism; Dead, The LUTHER BENSON; AFTER READING HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor victim of that vulture curse Last Line: And praise to him who gave release. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Galilee, Palestine; Peace; Sea; Self-criticism; Youth; Ocean MAYBE, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I stretch myself tall Subject(s): Self-criticism NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION, by LISA MECKEL Poem Source First Line: All night I've remained awake Last Line: Know again that the river is never the same river, ever Subject(s): Creation; Self; Self-criticism POEM FOR MY FRIEND, CLARE. OR, WITH WHITE STUPAS WE REMEMBER BUDDHA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So when the gods wearing their colored cloaks of nearness Last Line: "here's a beautiful postcard of five white stupas in nepal." Subject(s): Buddhism; Honor; Memory; Self-criticism; Self-righteousness; Buddha; Buddhists PRAISE AND PRAYER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been well, I have been ill Last Line: O help me wi' the lave! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): God; Prayer; Self-criticism REMBRANDT/PANTIES, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A couple if having a vitriolic lulu Last Line: To the power of x and delicate under the slow turn %of the equally unreadable stars Subject(s): Marriage; Rembrandt Harmensz Van Riij (1606-1669); Self-criticism SELF PORTRAIT AS YOU, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Always receding %you are %what I come out %to see Last Line: What is the sky anyway, %but a reply to the earth Subject(s): Portraits; Self-criticism SELF PORTRAITS, by CRICKET LEE Poem Source First Line: I take photographs of myself Last Line: The lens catches vulnerability %in black and white Subject(s): Art And Artists; Portraits; Self-criticism SELF-REPROACH, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the heart is an avenging power Last Line: There is no wretchedness like self-reproach. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Self-criticism TATTOO, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a tattoo of a tiny gun on my hand symbolic of the tiny wars I Last Line: My other hand until I fall asleep Subject(s): Self-criticism; Tattoos TATTOO, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a tattoo of a tiny gun on my hand symbolic of the tiny wars I Last Line: Bed, where I stare at the tiny doorknob tattooed on my other hand %until I fall asleep Subject(s): Self-criticism; Tattoos THE ADVANTAGES OF LEARNING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a man with no ambitions Subject(s): Learning; Self-criticism THE ILLUSION, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not the genes and the genes are not me Last Line: I am the simple sieve that drinks the universe. Subject(s): Self-criticism; Twins TO FIGHT ALOUD IS VERY BRAVE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And uniforms of snow Subject(s): Heroism; Self-criticism TWILIGHT, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: I'm the crazy girl you've been looking for. I'm the one on the phone that Last Line: Think I was a princess because my blood was blue. See? Subject(s): Insanity; Self-criticism; Self-hate WHEN I FOUND MY TRACKS IN THE SNOW, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: They turned the wrong way and went on Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Errors; Nature; Self-criticism WORTHLESSNESS, by NORMAN CABOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good spirits turn shuddering from scenes of / decay Last Line: The tangible form of my own worthlessness. Subject(s): Self-criticism |
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