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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HOUSEKEEPING Matches Found: 103 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PARABLE, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High-brow house was furnished well Last Line: And there you'll find it still. Subject(s): Grail; Housekeeping; Houses; Story-telling; Holy Grail; Graal ACCOUNTING, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nights too warm for tv Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping ACCOUNTING, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nights too warm for tv Last Line: The crawlspace filling up, packed solid %as any foundation Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping AMATEUR FIGHTER, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Boxing & Boxers; Fathers; Housekeeping AMATEUR FIGHTER, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's left is the tiny gold glove Last Line: Holding his body up to pain Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Boxing And Boxers; Fathers; Housekeeping ASK MARTHA, by ELIZABETH THELEN Poem Source First Line: Dear reader, %mildew is your punishment Last Line: Will be gleaming soon enough, %thanks to you Subject(s): Cleanliness; Home; Housekeeping; Housewives; Magazines AT THE OWL CLUB, NORTH GULFPORT, MISSISSIPPI, 1950, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's left is the tiny gold glove hanging from his key chain. But, before that, he had come to boxi Variant Title(s): At The Owl Club, North Gulfport, Mississippi 1950 Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping AT THE OWL CLUB, NORTH GULFPORT, MISSISSIPPI, 1950, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing idle here-the men Last Line: Regal quarts in hand- %it's payday man Variant Title(s): At The Owl Club, North Gulfport, Mississippi 195 Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping AT THE STATION, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man, turning, moves away Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping AT THE STATION, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man, turning, moves away Last Line: No words. His mind on fire Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping BROOM, by VERN RUTSALA Poem Source First Line: Like the feather duster it feels incomplete, a creature only Last Line: A creature only %half evolved, and anxiously scurries everywhere trying to find %the rest of itself Subject(s): Cleanliness; Housekeeping CAMEO, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a child, I would awaken dark mornings Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping CAMEO, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a child, I would awaken dark mornings Last Line: Of her throat, hard enough to bruise. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping CARPENTER BEE, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All winter long I have passed Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping CARPENTER BEE, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All winter long I have passed Last Line: Each in its separate cell-snug, ordered, certain Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping COLLECTION DAY, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saturday morning, motown / forty-fives and thick seventy-eights Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Baby Boom Generation; Housekeeping; Women COLLECTION DAY, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saturday morning, motown %forty-fives and thick seventy-eights Last Line: Something to last: patch of earth, %view of sky Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Baby Boom Generation; Housekeeping; Women DOMESTIC WORK, 1937, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All week she's cleaned Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping DOMESTIC WORK, 1937, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All week she's cleaned Last Line: A wish for something better Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping DOMESTICITY, by ELEANOR GOODSON MITCHELL Poem Text First Line: In this secluded, sheltered life Last Line: And leaves unruffled a smooth surface. Subject(s): Housekeeping DRAPERY FACTORY, GULFPORT, MISSISSIPPI, 1956, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She made the trip daily, though Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping DRAPERY FACTORY, GULFPORT, MISSISSIPPI, 1956, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She made the trip daily, though Last Line: On one white man's face, his hand %deep in knowledge Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping DUST MOP, by VERN RUTSALA Poem Source First Line: This creature is some curious by-product in the evolution of Last Line: This creature is some curious by-product in the evolution of the unicorn Subject(s): Cleanliness; Dust; Housekeeping EARLY EVENING, FRANKFORT, KENTUCKY, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: It is 1965. I am not yet born, only Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping EARLY EVENING, FRANKFORT, KENTUCKY, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is 1965. I am not yet born, only Last Line: Dead center of her life Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping EXPECTANT, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nights are hardest, the swelling Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping EXPECTANT, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nights are hardest, the swelling Last Line: Carrying her, slightly swaying home Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping FAMILY PORTRAIT, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the picture man comes Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping FAMILY PORTRAIT, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the picture man comes Last Line: As-years later-I'd itch for what's not there Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping 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 FLOUNDER, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, she said, put this on your head Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping FLOUNDER, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, she said, put this on your head Last Line: I stood there watching that fish flip-flop, %switch sides with every jump Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping FORTRESS, by PATRICIA HOOPER Poem Source First Line: Ironing shirts this morning Last Line: Not with her books and weaving %but a shield Subject(s): Housekeeping GATHERING, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through tall grass heavy / from rain, my aunt and I wade Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping GATHERING, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through tall grass heavy %from rain, my aunt and I wade Last Line: Handpicked days in memory, %our minds' dark pantry Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping GESTURE OF A WOMAN-IN-PROCESS, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the foreground, two women / their squinting faces Variant Title(s): Gesture Of A Woman In Process Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping GESTURE OF A WOMAN-IN-PROCESS, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the foreground, two women %their squinting faces Last Line: The white blur of her apron %still in motion Variant Title(s): Gesture Of A Woman In Proces Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping GIVE AND TAKE, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come here once a month to dig Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping GIVE AND TAKE, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come here once a month to dig Last Line: Waist of your panties, even %the corners of your mouth Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping HIS HANDS, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will never be large enough Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping HIS HANDS, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will never be large enough Last Line: Whatever his hands will give Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping HISTORY LESSON, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I am four in this photograph standing Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping HISTORY LESSON, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am four in this photograph standing Last Line: Of a cotton meal-sack dress Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping HOT COMBS, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the junk shop, I find an old pair Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping HOT COMBS, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the junk shop, I find an old pair Last Line: Her face made strangely beautiful %as only suffering can do Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping HOUSE CLEANING, by CARRIE W. BRONSON Poem Source First Line: Here's a tale [or, sing a song] of cleaning house Subject(s): Housekeeping HOUSEKEEPING, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We mourn the broken things, chair legs Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping HOUSEKEEPING, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We mourn the broken things, chair legs Last Line: For the mail, some news from a distant place Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping HOUSEWIFE, by CATHERINE CATE COBLENTZ Poem Source First Line: Jesus, teach me how to be Last Line: Grant me wisdom mary had %when she taught her little lad Subject(s): Housekeeping; Jesus Christ; Religion HUSWIFERY, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Make me, o lord, thy spinning wheele compleate Last Line: That I am cloathd in holy robes for glory. Variant Title(s): Housewifery Subject(s): Housekeeping; Labor & Laborers; Prayer; Puritans In Literature; Religion; Sewing; Work; Workers; Theology I LIKE HOUSE CLEANING, by DOROTHY BROWN THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: It's fun to clean house Last Line: Among the house cleaning %for new things to play Subject(s): Housekeeping; Play IRONING BOARD, by VERN RUTSALA Poem Source First Line: It can fold its legs like a crane and is thus clearly some variety of bird Last Line: Up tightly against its bill Subject(s): Housekeeping KEEPING THINGS NEAT, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You plant a rosebush by your door, and Last Line: Hide. Subject(s): Admiration; Cleanliness; Gardens & Gardening; Housekeeping; Neighbors; Tools LIMEN, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day I've listened to the industry Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping; Nature; Trees LIMEN, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day I've listened to the industry Last Line: Tireless, making the green hearts flutter Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping; Nature; Trees MICROSCOPE, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In sixth grade, science was a puzzle Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping MICROSCOPE, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In sixth grade, science was a puzzle Last Line: Up close could lose its luster Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping MINDEN HOUSE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twer when the vo'k wer out to hawl Last Line: There's now noo mwore a fanny deäne. Subject(s): Farm Life; Housekeeping; Love; Marriage; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MYTHMAKER, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We lived by the words / of gods, mythologies Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping MYTHMAKER, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We lived by the words %of gods, mythologies Last Line: Not like now. Not like now Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping NABBY, THE NEW YORK HOUSEKEEPER, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, nanny, I am sorry to find, since you write us Last Line: The beefe is half rawand the bell rings for dinner! Subject(s): Friendship; Housekeeping; New York City - Revolutionary Period; United States - Congress NAOLA BEAUTY ACADEMY, NEW ORLEANS, 1945, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Made hair? The girls here Variant Title(s): Naloa Beauty Academy, New Orleans, Louisiana 1943 Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping NAOLA BEAUTY ACADEMY, NEW ORLEANS, 1945, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Made hair? The girls here Last Line: Light, slight, and polite. %not a one out of place Variant Title(s): Naloa Beauty Academy, New Orleans, Louisiana 194 Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping NORA, by ELIZABETH WEST PARKER Poem Text First Line: When I came back from nora's burial Last Line: "oh, let me be like her!" Subject(s): Death; Housekeeping; Dead, The ODE TO HOUSECLEANING, by LOUISE WILT SAYRE Poem Text First Line: Housecleaning has begun for this springtime Last Line: "the time for the cleaning to start." Subject(s): Housekeeping ON A DEAF HOUSEKEEPER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Of all life's plagues I recommend to no man Subject(s): Deafness;housekeeping;life PICTURE GALLERY, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a tight corner of the house, we'd kept Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Art & Artists; Housekeeping; Paintings & Painters PICTURE GALLERY, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a tight corner of the house, we'd kept Last Line: Our lives suddenly beautiful, then Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Art And Artists; Housekeeping; Paintings And Painters SATURDAY DRIVE, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saturdays, uncle son drives slow Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping SATURDAY DRIVE, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saturdays, uncle son drives slow Last Line: Still shiny enough to see her face Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping SATURDAY MATINEE, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I first see imitation of life Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping SATURDAY MATINEE, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I first see imitation of life Last Line: An empty screen, pale blue, diamonds falling %until it's all covered up Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping SECULAR, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Work-week's end and there's enough Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping SECULAR, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Work-week's end and there's enough Last Line: Like gospel, like gold Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping SELF-EMPLOYMENT, 1970, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who to be today? So many choices Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping SELF-EMPLOYMENT, 1970, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who to be today? So many choices Last Line: Up under that wig, her head %sweating, hot as an idea Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping SIGNS, OAKVALE, MISSISSIPPI, 1941, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first time she leaves home is with a man Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping SIGNS, OAKVALE, MISSISSIPPI, 1941, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first time she leaves home is with a man Last Line: Nothing but cotton and road signs-stop or slow Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping SPECULATION, 1939, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First, the moles on each hand Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping SPECULATION, 1939, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First, the moles on each hand Last Line: Not that elevator lurching up, then down Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping SWEEPING HEAVEN, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: Someone has to sweep these million golden Last Line: It showers like the wheeling prairie sky Subject(s): Cleanliness; Housekeeping; North Dakota TABLEAU, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At breakfast, the scent of lemons Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping TABLEAU, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At breakfast, the scent of lemons Last Line: That has begun to split the bowl in half Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping THE COMING WOMAN, by MARY WESTON FORDHAM Poem Text First Line: Just look, 'tis a quarter past six, love Last Line: Exist, without a man cook. Subject(s): Housekeeping; Women's Rights; Feminism THE EMPRESS HOTEL POEMS, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just get up / and sit down again. Then Last Line: In the other poem. Subject(s): Hotels; Housekeeping; Language; Rooms; Tourists; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Words; Vocabulary THE GOOD HOUSEKEEPER, by FLORENCE MCKEEN KEPHART Poem Text First Line: I've ironed from my conscience the wrinkles Last Line: My house in order at last. Subject(s): Faith; Housekeeping; Belief; Creed THE HOUSEWIFE'S LAMENT, by ELOISE STORY Poem Text First Line: From morning till night and all through the day Last Line: Is heard in service, whether great or small. Subject(s): Housekeeping THE HOUSEWIFE'S PRAYER, ON THE MORNING PRECEDING A FETE; TO ECONOMY, by ELIZABETH MOODY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Goddess adored! Who gained my early love Last Line: And guard, o goddess, guard each candle's end! Alternate Author Name(s): Greenly, Elizabeth Subject(s): Housekeeping; Parties THE KETTLE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's many a house of grandeur Last Line: And the water would be hot. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Housekeeping THE MACHINATIONS OF THE MIND, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The car crash we passed when I was five Last Line: What spins and claws in our rearview mirrors. Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Habits; Housekeeping; Memory; Order; Reason; Selectivity; Violence; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE MOTHER'S CHARGE, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She raised her head. With hot and glittering eye Last Line: Her daughter died in turn, and made one more. Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Housekeeping; Mothers; Women THE THREE WISHES, by EDMUND VANCE COOKE Poem Text First Line: Well, now,' drawled the fairy, 'I'll grant you three wishes Last Line: "for self-washing dishes -- the thing's -- bolshe-vistic!" Subject(s): Fairies; Housekeeping; Wishes; Elves THREE PHOTOGRAPHERS: 3. WASH WOMEN, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eyes of eight women / I don't know Variant Title(s): Three Photographs Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping THREE PHOTOGRAPHERS: 3. WASH WOMEN, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eyes of eight women %I don't know Last Line: Their ready gaze through him, %to me, straight ahead Variant Title(s): Three Photograph Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping THREE PHOTOGRAPHS: 1. DAYBOOK, APRIL 1901, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What luck to find them here! Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping THREE PHOTOGRAPHS: 1. DAYBOOK, APRIL 1901, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What luck to find them here! Last Line: Too full with new graves %and no flowers Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping THREE PHOTOGRAPHS: 2. CABBAGE VENDOR, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Natural, he say. / what he want from me? Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping THREE PHOTOGRAPHS: 2. CABBAGE VENDOR, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Natural, he say. %what he want from me? Last Line: Like he be seeing me- %distant and small-forever Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping VERMONT HOUSEKEEPING, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I shan't forget how much I learnt Last Line: To book the dates for carrie nation. Subject(s): Housekeeping; Vermont WASHING THE DISHES, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we on simple rations sup Last Line: If you should drop a willow cup! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Housekeeping WE AND THE WEEKEND, by ALMA DENNY Poem Source First Line: When do we say we'll do it Subject(s): Housekeeping WHITE LIES, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lies I could tell Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping WHITE LIES, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lies I could tell Last Line: Thinking they'd work %from the inside out Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping |
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