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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CASTE Matches Found: 57 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "THE TWEED RING, 1868", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The great moguls of gotham! Their proud purses Last Line: Sleeps in the throttles of this ruthless three Subject(s): "depressions, Economic;income Tax;money;social Classes;tammany Hall, New York City;tweed, William Marcy [boss] (1823-78);wealth;" Recessions;caste;riches;fortunes A CONSECRATION, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not of the princes and prelates with periwigged charioteers Last Line: Amen. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Social Classes; Dead, The; Liberty; Caste A MODEST WIT, by SELLECK OSBORNE Poem Text First Line: A supercilious nabob of the east Last Line: "a gentleman of you?" Subject(s): Social Classes; Wit & Humor; Caste A NEW LOVE SONG, WITH THE ANSWER, by ISOBEL (ISABEL) PAGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have travell'd the country both early and late Last Line: To sail to america is my whole design. Subject(s): Lament; Love; Social Classes; Caste A NOVEL OF HIGH LIFE, by THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord harry has written a novel Last Line: The leaders of elegant life. Alternate Author Name(s): Bayly, Nathaniel Thomas Haynes Variant Title(s): A Fashionable Novel Subject(s): Novels & Novelists; Social Classes; Caste A POEM FOR THE CRUEL MAJORITY, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cruel majority emerges! Subject(s): Social Commentaries; Social Classes; Democracy; Caste A WASP WOMAN VISITS A BLACK JUNKIE IN PRISON, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After explanations and regulations, he Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Prisons & Prisoners; Social Classes; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Convicts; Caste AN AMERICAN POEM, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born in boston in Subject(s): Self; Gays & Lesbians; Ancestors & Ancestry; Boston; Social Classes; Social Commentaries; Poetry & Poets; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Heritage; Heredity; Caste AN EDUCATION IN THE EIGHTIES, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Women - Old Age; Social Classes; Caste BEVERLY HILLS, CHICAGO, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dry brown coughing beneath their feet Last Line: When we speak to each other our voices are a little gruff Subject(s): Social Classes; Caste DAT'S RIGHT, AIN'T IT?, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: De rich am gettin' richer Last Line: Ain't it? Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Humanity; Social Classes; Upper Classes; Caste DEDICATION, by FRANCIS REGINALD SCOTT Poem Text First Line: From those condemned to labour Last Line: Nor any peace for spending. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. R. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Money; Social Classes; Social Protest; Work; Workers; Caste EPITAPH: FOR A LADY I KNOW, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She thinks that even up in heaven Last Line: To do celestial chores. Subject(s): African Americans; Religion; Social Classes; Negroes; American Blacks; Theology; Caste EVE OF ST. AGONY OR THE MIDDLECLASS WAS SITTING ON ITS FAT, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man-dirt and stomachs that the sea unloads; rockets Subject(s): Social Classes; Social Commentaries; Caste FALSE SECURITY, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember the dread with which I at a quarter past four Subject(s): Social Classes; Caste FENCES, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mouths full of laughter Subject(s): Seashore; Labor & Laborers; Social Classes; Beach; Coast; Shore; Work; Workers; Caste FENIX, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Face cross-hatched by violet shadows that fall round her like a net, Last Line: And on the other lens my ass Subject(s): Dreams; Social Classes; Man-woman Relationships; Nightmares; Caste; Male-female Relations FORMALITY AND THE SOUL: 1. JOHN SINGER SARGENT, by KARL W. BIGELOW Poem Text First Line: Day- / a formal garden carefully laid out Last Line: In the formal, artificial garden. Subject(s): Humanity; Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925); Social Classes; Caste FORTUNO CARRACCIOLI, by ROBERT MCALMON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fat woman in the flat across the street Subject(s): Love - Absence Of; Social Classes; Labor & Laborers; Caste; Work; Workers FRESCOES FOR MR. ROCKEFELLER'S CITY: BURY GROUND BY THE TIES, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ayee! Ai! This is heavy earth on our shoulders: Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Social Classes; Work; Workers; Caste GOOD SOCIETY, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I suppose it is well to make some sort of exclusion Last Line: You should shut yourself on the wrong side of the fence. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Social Classes; Caste GUEST ROOM, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is in age Subject(s): Social Classes; Wealth; Caste; Riches; Fortunes IDIOM OF THE HERO, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard two workers say, 'this chaos Subject(s): Social Classes; Caste INVOCATION TO THE SOCIAL MUSE, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Se??Ora, it is true the greeks are dead Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): United States; Social Classes; Poetry & Poets; America; Caste JENIFER'S LOVE, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Small is my secret - let it pass Last Line: Above your bed, as I o'er mine? Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Secrets; Social Classes; Caste KIRKLAND LAKE, by JAMES WREFORD WATSON Poem Text First Line: Under the dark industrial sky Last Line: They die for freedom that are free. Alternate Author Name(s): Wreford, James Subject(s): Freedom; Social Classes; Social Protest; Liberty; Caste MADISON IN THE MID-SIXTIES, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Names, can you talk without their mirage? Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving; Social Classes; Cars; Caste MATINS, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look in whose clouded eye behind the red vein Subject(s): Social Classes; Caste MAUD MULLER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Maud muller on a summer's day / raked the meadow sweet with hay Last Line: Roll the stone from its grave away! Subject(s): Disappointment; Love - Loss Of; Social Classes; Caste MAUD MULLER A-WHEEL, by SAMUEL ELLSWORTH KISER Poem Text First Line: Maud muller, on a summer's day Last Line: Be not allowed to block the way! Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving & Drivers; Household Employees; Social Classes; Wheels; Cars; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Caste NEW STANZAS FOR AMAZING GRACE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed I dwelled in a homeless place Subject(s): Social Classes; Caste NOW AND THEN, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Up from the valley Subject(s): Surgery, Plastic; Social Commentaries; Human Behavior; Social Classes; Cosmetic Sugery; Face Lifts; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Caste POEM BEGINNING WITH A RANDOM PHRASE FROM COLERIDGE, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there were anything Subject(s): Social Classes; Caste POEM, ON SUPPOSITION OF ADVERTISEMENT ...VOLUME OF POEMS, BY A SERVANT, by ELIZABETH HANDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tea-kettle bubbled, the tea things were set Last Line: Like courtiers contending for honours, sat down. Alternate Author Name(s): Daphne Subject(s): Advertising; Books; Household Employees; Social Classes; Women Writers; Reading; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Caste POEM, ON SUPPOSITION OF THE BOOK HAVING BEEN PUBLISHED AND READ, by ELIZABETH HANDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dinner was over, the tablecloth gone Last Line: And gave the discourse a definitive blow. Alternate Author Name(s): Daphne Subject(s): Books; Household Employees; Social Classes; Women Writers; Reading; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Caste PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR AS A YOUNG ANARCHIST, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While things were going on in europe Subject(s): Anarchism And Anarchists; Poverty; Social Classes; Social Protest; Wealth; Youth; Caste; Riches; Fortunes SOMEBODY TRYING, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Http://www.Poetryfoundation.Org/poem/238458 Last Line: Trudging behind his funeral, he earned Subject(s): Death; Grief; Social Classes; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Caste THE ABRACADABRA BOYS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Language; Social Classes; Words; Vocabulary; Caste THE BEASTS, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fresh mollusk morning puts a foot Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): City & Town Life; Capitalism; Social Commentaries; Social Classes; Immigrants; Caste; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration THE CASTE WIFE SPEAKS TO THE ENIGMATIC PARABOLAS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The two stone breakers in loincloths Last Line: For the rising cream that forms a golden brick of butter. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Sex; Social Classes; Water; Male-female Relations; Caste THE ETA, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: When I told you I was an eta I saw you start Last Line: Or so you thought. Subject(s): Japan; Kindness; Social Classes; Japanese; Caste THE FALLING OF THRONES, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the din of commerce, above the clamor and rattle Last Line: Lights, with a dying splendour, the humblest toiler's way. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Social Classes; Caste THE GARDEN, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall Last Line: Will commit that indiscretion. Subject(s): Kensington Gardens; Social Classes; Caste THE GATEKEEPER'S CHILDREN, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the house of the very rich. Subject(s): Wealth; Social Classes; Children; Riches; Fortunes; Caste; Childhood THE LEISURE CLASSES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There was a little beggar maid Last Line: "and, pleasing heaven, never will" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;household Employees;marriage;social Classes; Servants;domestics;maids;weddings;husbands;wives;caste THE LEVELLER, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The king he reigns on a throne of gold Last Line: And forceth the rich like the poor to flee! Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Social Classes; Caste THE SELVEGE, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: So door to door among the shotgun Subject(s): Social Classes; Geese; Obama, Barack; Racism; Caste; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry THE SOCIAL SWIM, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The social swim! You know the rules Last Line: The social swim. Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Social Classes; Social Protest; Caste THE SWIMMING POOL, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All around the apt. Swimming pool Subject(s): Children; Teasing; Cruelty; Social Classes; Childhood; Caste THE WEALTH OF THE DESTITUTE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: How gray and hard the brown feet of the wretched of the earth. Subject(s): Poverty; Social Commentaries; Social Classes; Caste THOUGHT (5), by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of persons arrived at high positions, ceremonies, wealth, scholarships Last Line: Walking the dusk.) Subject(s): Social Classes; Caste TO A GENTLEMAN, DESIROUS OF SEEING MY MANUSCRIPTS, by CHRISTIAN MILNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm gratify'd to think that you Last Line: And I expect no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Ross, Christian Subject(s): Manuscripts; Social Classes; Writing & Writers; Caste TO E -, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let folly smile, to view the names Last Line: Since worth of rank supplies the place. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Social Classes; Caste TO ONE ASLEEP, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With a rush and a growl at cannon street Last Line: Here is man's eldest son?' Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Sleep; Social Classes; Weariness; Work; Workers; Caste; Fatigue WE, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We ought to drop the bomb at once before Subject(s): Cold War; United States; Social Classes; Social Commentaries; America; Caste WE HEARD HEALTH CARE, by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We heard health care and we thought public option Subject(s): Health Care & Insurance; United States - Politics & Government; Social Classes; Racism; Caste; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry WITHOUT AND WITHIN, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My coachman, in the moonlight there Last Line: And just another bored without. Subject(s): Cynicism; Social Classes; Caste |
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