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Subject: CONFORMITY
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First Line: One day, through the primeval wood
Variant Title(s): The Calf Pat
Subject(s): Conformity; History


CLOSET 3, by HEATHER RAMSDELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: --and can't move. Or %if I move, am quiet, barely shifting side to side within
Last Line: Barely up barely down, not quite. There I suddenly move, am awake and feel a %stiffness, arm as it r
Subject(s): Conformity


CONFORMITY, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Conformity was ever knowne
Last Line: Whose crack gives crushing unto all.
Subject(s): Conformity


CONFORMITY IS COMELY, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Conformity gives comelinesse to things
Last Line: And equall shares exclude all murmerings.
Subject(s): Conformity


COURAGE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: True, we must tame our rebel will
Last Line: Join'd to its clearness, of their force!
Subject(s): Conformity


DISILLUSIONMENT OF TEN O'CLOCK, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The houses are haunted
Last Line: In red weather.
Subject(s): Conformity; Dreams; Nightmares


HUGE CAR WITH THE SAD VOICE., by BERNARD KOJO LAING    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Her eyes going round and round, faster than the wheels under%her...
Subject(s): Conformity


I NEVER EVEN SUGGESTED IT, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know lots of men who are in love and lots of men who are
Last Line: I recommend to you this moral: %in real life it takes only one to make a quarrel
Subject(s): Conformity; Passivity


INTELLECTUALS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it so hard for men to stand by themselves
Last Line: They are tired and cover their eyes; they flock into fold
Subject(s): Conformity


LET THEM CHOOSE PATHS, by ODIA OFEIMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: They choose paths
Last Line: To see the asphalt in the chaste forest
Subject(s): Conformity


MY LADY WITH THE DROOPING ROSE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: My lady's young, my lady's fair
Last Line: My lady, oh my lady.
Subject(s): Conformity; Women; Women - North Carolina; Women - Secluding


RESIGNATION, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wish you would not mention it
Last Line: To say-'what must be, must!'
Subject(s): Conformity; Food And Eating; Pies


THE 'CLOSED-INS', by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Doomed to be 'compassed by four walls
Last Line: Hell has no part in this.
Subject(s): Conformity; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SUBURBANS, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Forgetting sounds that we no longer hear
Last Line: Our limited salvation is the word.
Subject(s): Conformity; Poetry & Poets; Self-consciousness; Suburbs; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism


THE UNKNOWN CITIZEN, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He was found by the bureau of statistics to be
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Bourgeoisie; Bureaucracy; Conformity; Modern Man; Social Protest; Statistics & Statisticians; Middle Class


TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 29. A PROMISE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: There will come days, perhaps, my friend, which will
Last Line: The memories which long have been at rest.
Subject(s): Conformity


TO THOSE OF MY SISTERS WHO KEPT THEIR NATURALS, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sisters! I love you
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Conformity; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect


TO THOSE OF MY SISTERS WHO KEPT THEIR NATURALS, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sisters! I love you
Last Line: The natural respect of self and seal! %sisters! %your hair is celebration in the world!
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Conformity; Pride


UNKNOWN CITIZEN, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He was found by the bureau of statistics to be
Last Line: Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd: %had anything been wrong, we should certainly hav
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Bourgeoisie; Bureaucracy; Conformity; Modern Man; Social Protest; Statistics And Statisticians


WALKING THOUGHTS, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sidewalk is growing soft. I am growing soft
Subject(s): Conformity; Homecoming; Solitude; Loneliness