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Subject: PROUST, MARCEL (1871-1922)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MAN MEETS A WOMAN IN THE STREET, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the separated leaves of shade
Subject(s): Garbo, Greta (1905-1990); Lorenz, Konrad (1903-1989); Proust, Marcel (1871-1922); Schumann-heink, Ernestine (1861-1936); Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)


HYMN TO PROUST, by GAVIN EWART    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For you time past could not forget
Last Line: And loves that drove the reason wild %but set the fancy free
Subject(s): Proust, Marcel (1871-1922)


LES SAINTS NOUVEAUX, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Proust, doing penance
Subject(s): Brancusi, Constantin (1876-1957); Cezanne, Paul (1839-1906); Paintings And Painters; Proust, Marcel (1871-1922); Sculpture & Sculptors


LES SAINTS NOUVEAUX, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Proust, doing penance
Last Line: Theologies of vision
Subject(s): Brancusi, Constantin (1876-1957); Cezanne, Paul (1839-1906); Paintings And Painters; Proust, Marcel (1871-1922); Sculpture And Sculptors


MAN MEETS A WOMAN IN THE STREET, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the separated leaves of shade
Last Line: Be the same day, the day of my life
Subject(s): Garbo, Greta (1905-1990); Lorenz, Konrad (1903-1989); Proust, Marcel (1871-1922); Schumann-heink, Ernestine (1861-1936); Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)


MARCEL PROUST, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: His childhood he gave to a public which had none
Subject(s): Proust, Marcel (1871-1922)


MARCEL PROUST, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: His childhood he gave to a public which had none
Last Line: Of some well-weathered ruin where the sun %picks out the childlike letters on a tomb
Subject(s): Proust, Marcel (1871-1922)


MARCEL PROUST LEAVING PRINCESSE SOUTZO'S ROOM AT THE RITZ, by JOHN ALLMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The air, at last: rings deepening around your eyes
Subject(s): Proust, Marcel (1871-1922)


ODE TO MARCEL PROUST, by PAUL MORAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shade / born of the fumes of your fumigation
Last Line: Of black and pearl-grey dandy?
Subject(s): Proust, Marcel (1871-1922)


PROUST ON NOAH, by EISIG SILBERSCHLAG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Noah sailed his ark and skimmed his inner world
Last Line: Like seasoned wisdom from the land of lethe
Subject(s): Proust, Marcel (1871-1922)


PROUST POEM, by DAVID DOOLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Titles of childhood books
Subject(s): Proust, Marcel (1871-1922)


PROUST'S MADELEINE, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Somebody has given my
Subject(s): Card Games; Death; Fathers & Daughters; Fathers & Sons; Proust, Marcel (1871-1922); Playing Cards; Dead, The


PROUST'S MADELEINE, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Somebody has given my
Last Line: Slow horses and fast women
Subject(s): Card Games; Death; Fathers And Daughters; Fathers And Sons; Proust, Marcel (1871-1922)


PROUSTIAN, by EDWARD HIRSCH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At times it seems lucky and unexpected, the past
Subject(s): Proust, Marcel (1871-1922)


PROUSTIAN, by EDWARD HIRSCH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At times it seems lucky and unexpected, the past
Subject(s): Proust, Marcel (1871-1922)


THE DUCHESSE'S RED SHOES; AFTER PROUST, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Swann has visited the duc and duchesse de guermantes
Last Line: The chaos of a small pond.
Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Proust, Marcel (1871-1922); Selflessness; Dead, The


TRUTH, by MICHAEL JOSEPH HEFFERNAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Proust claimed truth is only a point of view
Last Line: Who knew the paths of time and how they lead %past doors the dead would open if they could
Subject(s): Proust, Marcel (1871-1922); Truth


WHAT THE BONES KNOW, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Remembering the past
Last Line: I do not waste my breath.
Subject(s): Death; Love; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Proust, Marcel (1871-1922); Self-consciousness; Sex; Women; Women's Rights; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Dead, The; Feminism