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Subject: ROETHKE, THEODORE (1908-1963)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A POET'S HOUSEHOLD, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The stout poet tiptoes
Last Line: Is chanting words to himself.
Subject(s): Family Life; Poetry & Poets; Roethke, Theodore (1908-1963); Women; Women's Rights; Relatives; Feminism


LINES FOR ROETHKE TWENTY YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH, by DUANE NIATUM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You asked us to hear the softest vocable of wind
Last Line: Show us again how to reap the fire and glow
Subject(s): Roethke, Theodore (1908-1963)


ON THE DEATH OF THEODORE ROETHKE, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: The papers say he died in a swimming pool
Last Line: His dark suit gathering a bloody pollen
Subject(s): Death; Poetry And Poets; Roethke, Theodore (1908-1963)


POET ON THE ISLAND; TO THEODORE ROETHKE, by RICHARD MURPHY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On a wet night, laden with books for luggage
Last Line: Doctors were called, and he agreed to sail
Subject(s): Roethke, Theodore (1908-1963)


ROETHKE AT HARVARD, by KATHLEEN SPIVACK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Theodore roethke, otter of my imagination
Subject(s): Roethke, Theodore (1908-1963)


ROSEBUSH; A MEMORY OF THEODORE ROETHKE, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He was going to plant a rose. He'd found it mildewed
Last Line: From their thin stems. Grimly, he ate them both
Subject(s): Roethke, Theodore (1908-1963)


THE ROSEBUSH; A MEMORY OF THEODORE ROETHKE, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He was going to plant a rose. He'd found it mildewed
Subject(s): Roethke, Theodore (1908-1963)


WAS A MAN, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ted roethke was a tearing man
Last Line: From the town's biggest crooks
Subject(s): Roethke, Theodore (1908-1963)


WAS A MAN, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ted roethke was a tearing man
Last Line: Of what words are, found time and place %in saginaw, in michigan
Subject(s): Roethke, Theodore (1908-1963)