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Subject: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AFTER AGATHA CHRISTIE, by LINDA PASTAN            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the locked room
Subject(s): Fictional Characters; Criminal Investigation & Detection


ALICE MISSING IN WONDERLAND, by JUDITH BISHOP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Each day below the %pallid eye of winter noon
Last Line: Tread carefully. %consider what's left out
Subject(s): Fictional Characters


DADDY WARBUCKS, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What's missing is the eyeballs
Subject(s): Fictional Characters; Fathers & Daughters; Incest; Death


ILLUSION, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When we were young, because we
Last Line: We thought we were middle-aged
Subject(s): Fictional Characters; Youth


LIFE AFTER FICTION, by CATHRYN ESSINGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: What becomes of the people
Last Line: Us some morning in the elevator?
Subject(s): Fictional Characters; Life


MAN OR SUPERMAN, by BRYAN D. DIETRICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've often heard that every woman wants
Last Line: Devils, leave him, rise?
Subject(s): Fictional Characters; Superman


MR. BURGESS, MEET MR. BARMECIDE, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes I play a game that is of interest only to me
Last Line: I cry with cassius, 'upon what meat doth this our yowler feed?'
Subject(s): Fictional Characters


ODE TO THE INCREDIBLE HULK, by TODD ROBERT PETERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where's the doctor now? Hidden deep
Last Line: Everyone what lies %at the core of the atom
Subject(s): Fictional Characters


ROLE MODELS, by ALLISON JOSEPH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The next time a man demands to know
Last Line: Than challenging who can take off, who stays bound to the ground?
Subject(s): Fictional Characters


THE LONE RANGER, by DONALD HALL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Anarchic badlands spread without a road
Subject(s): Fictional Characters


THE TRAITOR, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sea-bird of the battle surf
Last Line: Where he sleeps in endless gloom.
Subject(s): Blackmore, Richard Doddridge (1825-1900); Fictional Characters


THE WOLF'S POSTSCRIPT TO 'LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD', by AGHA SHAHID ALI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First, grant me my sense of history
Last Line: Should have come to an end
Subject(s): Fictional Characters; Wolves; Children's Literature


TO FALSTAFF, by GWENDOLYN WESCOTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Drunken, fat old fool
Last Line: Died lonesome in the textbooks.
Subject(s): Fictional Characters