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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MORGUES Matches Found: 5 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BUILDING 520, BELLEVUE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Building 520 at bellevue is a temple Last Line: When I signed the form she took me out into the light of day Subject(s): Bellevue Hospital, New York City; Morgues; Suicide MORGUE: 1. LITTLE ASTER, by GOTTFRIED BENN Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: A drowned truck-driver was propped on the slab Last Line: Little aster! Subject(s): Asters; Autopsies; Expressionism - Poets; Flowers; Morgues MORGUE: 2. LOVELY CHILDHOOD, by GOTTFRIED BENN Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: The mouth of a girl who had long lain among the reeds looked gnawed away Last Line: Oh, how the little muzzles squeaked! Subject(s): Autopsies; Death - Children; Expressionism - Poets; Morgues; Death - Babies SANCTUARY, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My sister got me the script, I couldn't Last Line: Is sitting accusingly at the foot of my bed. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Death; Dreams; Morgues; Motion Pictures; Unfaithfulness; Actresses; Dead, The; Nightmares; Movies; Cinema; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy TURMOIL IN A MORGUE, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Negro / chinaman Subject(s): Racism; Death; Morgues; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Dead, The |
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