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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CLASS STRUGGLE Matches Found: 33 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` $2.50, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But that dashing, dauntless, delphic, diehard, diabolic cracker likes his fiction turned Subject(s): Books & Reading; Popular Culture; Class Struggle BLACK DEATH, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He gave her neither rest nor peace Last Line: "the grave knows neither low nor high!" Subject(s): Class Struggle; Death; Fairy Tales; Love; Dead, The BLOSSOMING WALL, by MARJORIE GRAFFLIN Poem Text First Line: They built a wall between us and the west Last Line: Sharp as forgotten pain, as forgiveness fair. Subject(s): Baltimore, Maryland; Class Struggle; Walls CLASSLESS, by TIM DIVITO Poem Source First Line: It has to be stopped Last Line: If we lose our faith, we all become classless Subject(s): Class Struggle CLASSY SOCIETY, by SALVATORE GALIOTO Poem Source First Line: There is this young actor %a jr., son of a famous dad Last Line: The american dream......The american reality! Subject(s): Class Struggle CONSIDER, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Consider this and in our time Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): "consider This And In Our Time""; Subject(s): Class Struggle CONSIDER, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Consider this and in our time Last Line: Or lapse for ever into a classic fatigue Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): Consider This And In Our Tim Subject(s): Class Struggle FIRST BOOK OF AIRS: 20. A HAPPY MARRIAGE, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jack and joan [or, jacke and jone], they think no ill Last Line: Securer lives the silly swain. Variant Title(s): Fortunati Nimium;rustic Joys Subject(s): Class Struggle; Country Life; Courts & Courtiers; Marriage; Simplicity; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FOCUS IN REAL TIME, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A bowl of rice Last Line: A bowl of rice Subject(s): Class Struggle; Rice FOR A' THAT AND A' THAT; SONG, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is there, for honest poverty Last Line: Shall brothers be for a' that! Variant Title(s): A Man's A Man For A' That;honest Poverty Subject(s): Brotherhood; Class Struggle; Equality; Freedom; Mankind; Poverty; Liberty; Human Race HOT-COALS SHUFFLE, by JACQUELINE DE WEEVER Poem Source First Line: The sudden ammonia of days'-old urine Last Line: Some rags are more of soul than body Subject(s): Class Struggle; Homeless ICHABOD: A MONODY, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the time when everything is glad Last Line: -- it is not far from here to jericho. Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Class Struggle; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers INSTRUCTIONS, SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN IN PARIS, FOR THE MOB IN ENGLAND, by MARY (CUMBERLAND) ALCOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of liberty, reforms and rights I sing Last Line: Adieu, contentment, safety, peace and quiet! Subject(s): Class Struggle; Freedom; Revolutions; Liberty JENNIFER'S REASON, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Their reasons are always just notes Last Line: And skulls to her enemy's doorstep %buy her breakfast, even write her poem Subject(s): Class Struggle; Poetry And Poets; Schools; Teaching And Teachers MAQUILADORA, by CARL STILLWELL Poem Source First Line: The bosses open wide the %doora Last Line: Against our greedy %rulahs Subject(s): Class Struggle NO SURRENDER! (VERSES WRITTEN AT A TIME OF INDUSTRIAL CRISIS), by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stand fast at last, o weary nation Last Line: Thy fate in thine own will. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Class Struggle; England; Industry; English ON THE LOSS OF ENERGY (AND OTHER THINGS), by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more the chicken and the egg come Last Line: And so do I Subject(s): Class Struggle; Racism; Social Commentary; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry POPULAR SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Methought I saw how wealthy men Last Line: The task-masters are playing kept, %but poor men will pay for all Subject(s): Class Struggle; Freedom PRESENT DAY SONNETS: OUR LOOMS, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rich stuffs our looms weave for fair ladies' wear.' Last Line: The brutish engine like all tyrants blind. Subject(s): Class Struggle; Clothing & Dress; Labor & Laborers; Weaving & Weavers; Work; Workers SOLDIERS OF MISFORTUNE, by ALICE CRANDALL THAL Poem Text First Line: Why carry on? Last Line: Hope springs again and yet again. We carry on. Subject(s): Class Struggle; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers SPAIN - 1937, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday all the past. The language of size Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Class Struggle; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) SPAIN - 1937, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday all the past. The language of size Last Line: History to the defeated %may say alas but cannot help or pardon Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Class Struggle; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) THE BREADLINE, by MELVIN BEAUNORUS TOLSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A reptile crawls along the squalid street Last Line: Its filthy head upreared as if to strike! Alternate Author Name(s): Tolson, Melvin Subject(s): Class Struggle; Poverty THE BRIDGE: 7. THE TUNNEL, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Performances, assortments, resumes Last Line: Gatherest -- Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Class Struggle; Imagination; New York City; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Subways; Vision; Fancy; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE CONTRAST, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With ripples of blinding fire all broadway / wavered ashine Last Line: He tossed me a silver coin ... I let it lie in the street ... Subject(s): Cities; Class Struggle; Taxis; Urban Life THE PROPHECY OF FAMINE; A SCOTS PASTORAL INSCRIBED TO JOHN WILKES, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: When cupid first instructs his darts to fly Last Line: "who most enjoys and best deserves, their love." Subject(s): Class Struggle; Courts & Courtiers; Cupid; England; Fate; Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758); Scotland; Wilkes, John (1725-1797); Youth; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Eros; English; Destiny THE SNOW STORM, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nature unfettered by man's civic need Last Line: Great god! Is this the world for which christ bled? Subject(s): Class Struggle; Injustice; Snow THE WORKING MAN (AFTER SEEING HIS PICTURE IN THE PRESS), by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Working man! Whose psychic beauty Last Line: Bless the british working man! Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Class Struggle; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers THEY CALL IT BUSINESS, by CHARLES G. ADAMS Poem Text First Line: Many sow / and reap; yet die poor Last Line: They call it business. Subject(s): Class Struggle; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes THIRTY BOB A WEEK, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I couldn't touch a stop and turn a screw Last Line: And we fall, face forward, fighting, on the deck. Subject(s): Class Struggle; Freedom; Office Employees; Liberty; Clerks TONGUES, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To mortify the spirit I once attended Last Line: The stuttering leaves on the insensible pavement. Subject(s): Class Struggle; French Language; Tongues UNDER CLASS, by SALVATORE GALIOTO Poem Source First Line: Women and men Last Line: That life is better under americas %more democratic and sophisticated %apartheid! Subject(s): Class Struggle WATCHING THE RICH IN SOUTHAMPTON, by WILLIAM HATHAWAY Poem Source First Line: Tired and hot late in the day Last Line: You know there is no other way %to come out of it Subject(s): Class Struggle; Southampton, England |
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