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Subject: REALISM
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CRITICAL SONATA: THE TRUTH [LA VERDAD], by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Realism, idealism: how I dote on you both
Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo
Subject(s): Idealism; Realism; Truth


DEMOLITION, by TONY HOAGLAND            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: They hang a big tube from the side of an office building
Subject(s): Construction Sites; Men; Realism


IDEALISM AND REALISM, by GUSTAF FRODING    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm sick of this newfangled schism
Subject(s): Idealism; Realism


PASTORAL, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now the body is the body's flower
Last Line: Into a spidery realism
Subject(s): Realism; Sacrifices


REALISM, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Romance beside his unstrung lute
Last Line: Goes wandering.
Subject(s): Realism


REALISM, by ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And truth, you say, is all divine
Last Line: Is handmaid to the hags of night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Benson, A. C.
Subject(s): Realism; Women


REALSIM, by VERA WARDNER DOUGAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Why do we gaze at the mud and the slime
Last Line: Instead of nobility's might?
Subject(s): Pessimism; Realism


TWELVE P.M., by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To get home from some scene of gayety
Last Line: Confronted the eternal verity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Hallucinations & Illusions; Realism; Truth