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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ESTRANGEMENT Matches Found: 93 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN OLD HYMN FOR IAN JENKINS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: All things we value in terms of contrast Last Line: Of the dream is place. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cities; Dreams; New York City; Southern States; Estrangement; Outcasts; Urban Life; Nightmares; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; South (u.s.) ANCHORAGE, by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This city is made of stone, of blood, and fish Last Line: To survive? Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; Survival; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts; Indians Of America; American Indians; BLACK SHEEP, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From their folded mates they wander far Last Line: And marvel, out in the cold. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Hearts; Night; Sheep; Wandering & Wanderers; Weariness; Estrangement; Outcasts; Bedtime; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes; Fatigue BODO, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We could weep for him Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts BOSTON YEAR, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: My first week in cambridge a car full of white boys Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Alienation (social Psychology); Americans; Boston; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; United States; Estrangement; Outcasts; America BURIAL, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Carrying tapers in soft white hands Last Line: On the antichrist's last bed. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Churches; Funerals; Graves; Life; Sea; Estrangement; Outcasts; Cathedrals; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean BURIAL, by ALICE WALKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have fenced in the dirt road Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Estrangement; Outcasts CONSENT, by CAROL FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arrows striking all sides of the body and st. Sebastian smiling Last Line: A little of what already exists and the towering sense of kindnesses no world can offer? Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts CROSSROADS' BURIAL (SUGGESTED BY GALSWORTHY'S APPLE TREE), by MARY ATWATER TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: Green at the crossroads lifts the narrow mound Last Line: And her proud feet have found a pathway home. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Funerals; Roads; Suicide; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The; Burials; Paths; Trails DEFLECTION TOWARD THE RELATIVE MINOR, by FORREST GANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They were partakers of a strange taste. - at the hour when Last Line: In the evening ground when the bell Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Children; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Night; Estrangement; Outcasts; Childhood; Bedtime DESTINY, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am eating cold chinese Last Line: I love you. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Drugs & Drug Abuse; Estrangement; Outcasts ELINOR FROST'S MARBLE-TOPPED KNEADING TABLE, by PATTIANN ROGERS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine that motion, the turning and pressing Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Estrangement; Outcasts FLAMES LIGHT UP THE ROUGH WALLS AND EARNEST FACES, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With none among the travelers about you Last Line: A little chapel in a housedress of windless pink dawn Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dinners & Dining; Housekeeping; Housewives; Estrangement; Outcasts FOR THE RECORD; IN MEMORY OF ELEANOR BUMPURS, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call out the colored girls Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Alienation (social Psychology); Bumpurs, Eleanor; Exiles; Labor & Laborers; Violence; Estrangement; Outcasts; Work; Workers FROM AN OFFICE WINDOW, by FRANCES M. BALLARD Poem Text First Line: The tulip bed is flaming in the square Last Line: Than in this high tower where I stand. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Flowers; Office Work; Estrangement; Outcasts GENEALOGY, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come from alcohol Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Estrangement; Outcasts GERONTION, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Here I am, an old man in a dry month Last Line: Thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cowardice; Decay; Emptiness; Old Age; Estrangement; Outcasts; Rot; Decadence GOING OUT FOR CIGARETTES, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's a story as famous as the three little pigs Last Line: Downstream, and its upturned reflection in the water Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts HOMO WILL NOT INHERIT, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Downtown anywhere and between the roil Last Line: Gorgeous, and on fire. I have my kingdom Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Gays & Lesbians; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men IN HERITAGE FARMS, SETTLED, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In their tennis whites, their pastel izods, all day the women Last Line: Of the hornworm inching toward the wings of the phoenix moth. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Consumerism; Discontent; Popular Culture - United States; Suburbs; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dissatisfaction IN THE BASEMENT OF THE GOODWILL STORE, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: In musty light, in the thin brown air Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHOIR, by GREGORY DJANIKIAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had never seen a cornfield in my life Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; Schools; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts; Students INTERSPECIES, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was teaching a residency in cincinnati Subject(s): Loneliness; Alienation (social Psychology); Friendship; Zoos; Estrangement; Outcasts ITINERARY, by DOUG ANDERSON Poet's Biography First Line: In arizona coming across the border with dope in my tires Subject(s): Aging; Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Estrangement; Outcasts JOURNEY OF THE MAGI, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A cold coming we had of it Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Christianity; Christmas; Loss; Magi; Estrangement; Outcasts; Nativity, The LIFE WAS ALL ABOUT HIM, by MAUDE ARNEY FARNSWORTH Poem Text First Line: I heard a boy, a high - school boy Last Line: Both death and birth. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Boys; Towns; Estrangement; Outcasts LINEAGE, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandmothers were strong Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Alienation (social Psychology); Alphabet Verse; Ancestors & Ancestry; Women; Estrangement; Outcasts; Heritage; Heredity LITTLE CITIZEN, LITTLE SURVIVOR, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A brown rat has taken up residence with me Last Line: Lend me your presence, and I will lend you mine. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Rats; Estrangement; Outcasts MANUMISSION, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, you are free! When you are satisfied Last Line: Your love can leave no room for loneliness. Subject(s): Absence; Alienation (social Psychology); Love; Separation; Isolation; Estrangement; Outcasts MAX JACOB AT SAINT BENOIT, by ROSANNA WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The noonday square. Plane leaves, dust Last Line: " at drancy. There, the nazis let him die - a sick old jew? - ""natural death. "" " Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts MEMORY OF WILMINGTON, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thirty-some years ago, hitchhiking Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts MEN WITHOUT, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father is a coward, and I have grown Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cowardice; Fathers & Sons; Love; Estrangement; Outcasts MENNONITES, by JULIA SPICHER KASDORF Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We keep our quilts in closets and do not dance Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Amish; Exiles; Estrangement; Outcasts; Mennonites MIAMI HEART, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a long text, on live tv, in an amphitheater, in the soil Last Line: One writes with one's desire. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Discontent; Popular Culture - United States; Writing & Writers; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dissatisfaction MISFIT, by ROSEMARY FARRAR Poem Text First Line: His mother did not think about Last Line: Then raised it shyly to his lips. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Mothers; Estrangement; Outcasts MR. FLOOD'S PARTY, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old eben flood, climbing alone one night Last Line: That many friends had opened long ago. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Alienation (social Psychology); Drinks & Drinking; Old Age; Solitude; Toasts; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Estrangement; Outcasts; Wine; Loneliness NAZIS, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god they're all gone Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts NEWS UPDATE; FOR ERHART, GITTLESON, FLYNN & STONE, HAPILY DEAD & GONE, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Well, here I am in the centre daily times Last Line: Oh, big sighs. Windy sighs. And ghostly laughter. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The OF BEING NUMEROUS, 14, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot even now Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Veterans; City & Town Life; Estrangement; Outcasts OF BEING NUMEROUS, 9, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Estrangement; Outcasts OLD FOLSOM PRISON, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This could be scotland: a crag and far below Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts ON A CERTAIN FIELD IN AUVERS, by JOHN HAINES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the road to hallucination Last Line: And the great light of the sun Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts ON LOVE: MARINA TSVETAEVA, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Human thresholds are meant to be crossed Last Line: I would be a wing that soars for love Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Love - Unrequited; Tsvetayeva, Marina (1892-1941); Estrangement; Outcasts PARALYTIC, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It happens. Will it go on? Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Pain; Estrangement; Outcasts; Suffering; Misery PASSING (2), by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A professor invites me to his black lit class; they're Last Line: My father quizzed me Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts PERSIMMONS, by LI-YOUNG LEE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In sixth grade mrs. Walker / slapped the back of my head Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Education; Exiles; Language; Marginality, Social; Persimmons; Schools; Estrangement; Outcasts; Words; Vocabulary; Students PICNIC, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mother and child activate the lawn Last Line: The yard explodes. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Discontent; Suburbs; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dissatisfaction POPULIST, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed myself of their people, I am of their people Subject(s): Social Protest; Alienation (social Psychology); Estrangement; Outcasts PRAYER, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet jesus, let her save you, let her take Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Women; Estrangement; Outcasts REPULSE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody cares when I am glad Last Line: Nobody cares when I am sad. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Estrangement; Outcasts SAND NIGGER, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In the house in detroit Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cities; Detroit, Michigan; Dissenters; Exiles; Lebanon; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts; Urban Life SLAVESHIPS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loaded like spoons Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Jesus Christ; Marginality, Social; Slavery; Estrangement; Outcasts; Serfs SOLOING, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother tells me she dreamed Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts SONG, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a song for the speechless Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts SOUL MAKE A PATH THROUGH SHOUTING, by CYRUS CURTIS CASSELLS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thick at the schoolgate are the ones Last Line: I'm just going to school. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Civil Rights Movement; Dissenters; Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Little Rock, Arkansas; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; Schools; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts; SUMMONS, by DAVID RIVARD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suppose I can convince myself this Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#58), by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They came to the door because he was small or went to some Last Line: This time the dead man will see them in hell. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Dissenters; Exiles; Funerals; Graves; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones THE CLUB, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: He beat me with the hem of a kimono Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Escapes; Exiles; Violence; Estrangement; Outcasts; Fugitives THE CRYPTO-JEWS, by ROBIN BECKER Poet's Biography First Line: This summer, reading the history of the jews of spain Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts THE EPIPHANY OF THE MAD, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the voice of the outcast things Last Line: Approach and cleansed are. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Moon; Singing & Singers; Voices; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The THE FLIGHT OF APOLLO, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth was my home, but even there I was a stranger. This mineral crust. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts THE FLOATING MORMON, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That summer she hadn't struggled Last Line: Like parents' front-seat voices. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Mormons; Women; Estrangement; Outcasts THE HOME-RETURNING, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis we who live that vagrants are; the dead Last Line: The home-returning! Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Grief; Home; Love; Wandering & Wanderers; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF: 2. HERMAN THE BASTARD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He died alone, herman the bastard Last Line: Ach ja, child, he says, humanity! Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Children; Escapes; Relationships; Story-telling; Estrangement; Outcasts; Childhood; Fugitives THE INNER MAN, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It isn't the body Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts THE INVOLUNTARY SLACKER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Strong, young and healthy--so the whole world says Last Line: Was ever crucifixion such as mine? Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); War; World War I; Estrangement; Outcasts; First World War THE LADY IN THE PINK MUSTANG, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun goes down for hours, taking more of her along Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Popular Culture - United States; Estrangement; Outcasts THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Let us go then, you and I Last Line: Till human voices wake us, and we drown. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Aging; Alienation (social Psychology); Apathy; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Modern Man; Paralysis; Estrangement; Outcasts THE MAN FORBID, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mankind has cast me out. When I became Last Line: The cliffed escarpment ends in stormclad strength. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Animals; Apes; Books; Death; Education; Exiles; Humanity; Life; Mankind; Estrangement; Outcasts; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Reading; Dead, The; Human Race THE MORNING AFTER MY DEATH, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My body is a white thing in the sun, now Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts THE ONE SECRET THAT HAS CARRIED, by JASON SHINDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Irene loves a man / who is afraid of sex: she's attended Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts THE OUTCAST, by HELEN MCCRORY ARENDELL Poem Text First Line: Born an outcast in a world of slanting sunshine Last Line: Sense that worthwhile life was wasted. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Estrangement; Outcasts THE OUTCAST, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soul, be your own Last Line: Affront the world. Subject(s): Advice; Alienation (social Psychology); Cruelty; Estrangement; Outcasts THE OUTCASTS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The smile of god was in the air Last Line: While they remain uncomforted. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Beauty; Death; Youth; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The THE PARIAH, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hear me, bramha, bending lowly! Last Line: Look in mercy on repentance! Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Legends; Prayer; Rivers; Estrangement; Outcasts THE PARIAH, by ROSE TOOTHAKER MILLILKEN Poem Text First Line: I saw her kneeling in the garden plot Last Line: I somehow knew her soul had found its god. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Children; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Estrangement; Outcasts; Childhood THE PAUPER, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: It dawned a morn to make a heart despair Last Line: More swift, more kind, the flow of thames' dark wave. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Animals; Dogs; Thames (river); Estrangement; Outcasts THE PAUPER'S FUNERAL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What! And not one to heave the pious sigh? Last Line: I pause—and ponder on the days to come. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Graves; Grief; Honor; Poverty; Self; Tears; Estrangement; Outcasts; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness THE TRAMP, by ROSALIND TRAVERS Poem Text First Line: I have turned my face away from the city Last Line: Away from sight and life; o, take me in! Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cities; Estrangement; Outcasts; Urban Life THE WORLD; SONNET, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is too much with us: late and soon Last Line: Or hear old triton blow his wreathed horn. Variant Title(s): Rather A Pagan;worldliness Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Melancholy; Men; Nature; Paganism & Pagans; Social Protest; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dejection THOREAU, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father and I have no place to go Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Loss; Marginality, Social; Moving & Movers; Refugees; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862); United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Estrangement; Outcasts THOSE WHO WANT OUT, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In their homes, much glass and steel. Their cars Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Environment; Exiles; Nature; Estrangement; Outcasts; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation TO AN UNKNOWN POET, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I haven't the heart to say Last Line: In this bastion of culture. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Estrangement; Outcasts; Feminism TO ONE IN ALIENATION: 1, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I saw you decked to meet Last Line: (poor child!) a half-forgotten point of view Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Estrangement; Outcasts TO ONE IN ALIENATION: 2, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I lay on the stranger's bed Last Line: My lips were sobbing on your name. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Estrangement; Outcasts TWO STANDARDS, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Full Text First Line: Joan's one eighth. I'm a quarter Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Authors - Conferences And Workshops; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage; Women; Estrangement; Outcasts; Writer's Conferences And Workshops UPSTATE, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A knife blade of cold air keeps prying Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts VIDEO RAIN, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am flown to your good side now Last Line: Sunsets outside quiet silent towns. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Discontent; Materialism; Popular Culture - United States; Television; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dissatisfaction; Tv WE ARE AMERICANS NOW, WE LIVE IN THE TUNDRA, by MARILYN MEI LING CHIN Poet's Biography First Line: Today in hazy san francisco, I face seaward Alternate Author Name(s): Chin, Marilyn Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts WOMAN WHO WEEPS, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up from the valley, ten children working the fields Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts WORLD-STRANGENESS, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange the world about me lies Last Line: Never wholly been at ease. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Estrangement; Outcasts WRITTEN IN NORTHAMPTON COUNTY ASYLUM, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am: yet what I am none cares or knows Last Line: The grass below -- above the vaulted sky. Variant Title(s): His Last Verses Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Depression, Mental; Insanity; Religion; Solitude; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Madness; Mental Illness; Theology; Loneliness YUBA CITY SCHOOL, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the black trunk I shake out Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; India; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts |
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