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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BRAZIL Matches Found: 30 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHRISTMAS GREETING; FROM A NORTHERN START-GROUP TO A SOUTHERN, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, brazilian brother - thy ample place is ready Last Line: The height to be superb humanity. Subject(s): Brazil; Christmas; Brazilians; Nativity, The A FAREWELL TO AGASSIZ; WRITTEN ON EVE OF JOURNEY TO BRAZIL, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How the mountains talked together Last Line: Bless them now and evermore! Subject(s): Agassiz, Louis (1807-1873); Brazil; Farewell; Science; Brazilians; Parting; Scientists ARMADILLO; FOR ROBERT LOWELL, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the time of year Last Line: And a weak mailed fist %clenched ignorant against the sky Subject(s): Animals; Armadillos; Birds; Brazil; Owls BABBLING, by JOSE OSWALD DE SOUZA ANDRADE Poem Source First Line: Cabralism. The civiliation of the donees. The willing Last Line: Dance. The vegatation. Brazilwood Subject(s): Brazil; Ethnic Identity; History; Poetry And Poets BLACK GIRL FULO, by JORGE MATEUS DE LIMA Poem Source First Line: Now it so happened she came Last Line: That black girl fulo! Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Brazil; Rape; Slavery BRAZIL, by RONALD DE CARVALHO Poem Source First Line: In this hour of pure sunlight Subject(s): Brazil BRAZIL, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To go to the edge is to discover Last Line: Upon love's narcissistic enterprise Subject(s): Brazil CACHOEIRA, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We slept, woke, breakfasted, and met the man Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Cachoeira, Brazil; Tourists; Slavery; Convents; Serfs EVOCATION OF RECIFE, by MANUEL CARNEIRO BANDEIRA FILHO Poem Source First Line: Recife %not the american venice Last Line: Recife, now dead, bighearted recife, recife brazilian as my %grandfather's home Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Brazil; Childhood Memories; Grandparents FREEDOM IN BRAZIL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With clearer light, cross of the south Last Line: Go out and leave thee free. Subject(s): Brazil; Freedom; Slavery; Brazilians; Liberty; Serfs HIEROFANT, by JOSE OSWALD DE SOUZA ANDRADE Poem Source First Line: It's impossible to live Last Line: To attend the plangent calf Subject(s): Art And Artists; Brazil; Paintings And Painters IN BRAZIL I LEAPT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Into it, a onetime-only trick Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Brazil; Nature; Self IN PORTUGUESE, by ADELIA PRADO Poem Source First Line: Spider, cork, pearl Last Line: Your arm brushing up against mine Subject(s): Brazil; Language; Poetry And Poets INSPIRATION, by MARIO RAUL DE MORAIS DE ANDRADE Poem Source First Line: Where even at the height of summer Last Line: Gallicism crying in the wilderness of america! Subject(s): Sao Paulo, Brazil; South America; Travel INSTRUMENT FACTORY, BRAZIL, by KATHLEEN MCGOOKEY Poem Source First Line: It's simple enough to give away the coins in your heart, when dust settles Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Factories; Labor And Laborers; Musical Instruments; Sao Paulo, Brazil NOCTURNE, by MARIO RAUL DE MORAIS DE ANDRADE Poem Source First Line: Lights from the cambuci district on nights of crime Last Line: Get-a you roast-a yams! Subject(s): Brazil; Prostitution; Women OFF TO PASARGADA, by MANUEL CARNEIRO BANDEIRA FILHO Poem Source First Line: I'm heading off to pasargada Last Line: I'm heading off to pasargada Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Brazil OSWALD DEAD, by FERREIRA GULLAR Poem Source First Line: Yesterday in sao paulo they buried Last Line: Was a national flag Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Poetry And Poets; Sao Paulo, Brazil PORTUGUESE MISTAKE, by JOSE OSWALD DE SOUZA ANDRADE Poem Source First Line: When the portuguese arrived Last Line: The portuguese Subject(s): Brazil; Language PROCESSIONS, by MARIO RAUL DE MORAIS DE ANDRADE Poem Source First Line: Monotonies of my retinas Last Line: Seem to me just so many monkeys, just so many monkeys Subject(s): Cities; Sao Paulo, Brazil RIVERMAN, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I got up in the night Last Line: The dolphin singled me out; %luandinha seconded it Subject(s): Brazil; Dolphins; Witchcraft And Witches SAO PAULO, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Buildings to the horizon, an accretion Last Line: Of heaven, transparently, the muchness hushed Subject(s): Sao Paulo, Brazil SAO PAULO SIGHS (AUTOBIOGRAPHY 14), by MICHAEL PALMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our sighs in sao paulo Last Line: From sulfur Subject(s): Sao Paulo, Brazil; Sighs SENTENCES: BRAZIL, by TONY HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even the lone man in his wattle lean-to Last Line: Edible necklaces %and caged red birds Subject(s): Brazil; Travel SHYNESS, by KATHLEEN MCGOOKEY Poem Source First Line: And so the men smile, and I smile back at them. And if I opened my Last Line: If I keep my head down, low to my body, I think I can almost disappear Subject(s): Bashfulness; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Travel SUBVERSIVE, by FERREIRA GULLAR Poem Source First Line: Poetry %when she comes Last Line: And promises to set the country on fire Subject(s): Brazil; Human Rights; Poetry And Poets SYMPHONY, by BORGHILD LEE Poem Text First Line: Brazilian palm-trees Last Line: Walking to the sea -- Subject(s): Beauty; Brazil; Girls; Brazilians THE ARMADILLO; FOR ROBERT LOWELL, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the time of year Subject(s): Animals; Armadillos; Birds; Brazil; Owls; Brazilians THE CRY OF A LOST SOUL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In that black forest, where, when day is done Last Line: "and change to praise the cry of a lost soul?" Subject(s): Birds; Brazil; Brazilians THE RIVERMAN, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I got up in the night Last Line: Luandinah seconded it Subject(s): Brazil; Dolphins; Witchcraft & Witches; Brazilians; Porpoises |
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