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Subject: TWENTIETH CENTURY
Matches Found: 5

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` GIVE ME A NICKNAME, PRISON, by IRINA RATUSHINSKAYA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Place of our outcasts, executions %in this twentieth century
Subject(s): Death; Human Rights; Prisons And Prisoners; Torture; Twentieth Century


POEM OF 1999, by TAKAHASHI MUTSUO    Poem Source                    
First Line: When we entered the 1990's, we entered in fact, in our perception
Last Line: The infant jesus christ branching out of the legendary virgin mary
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Twentieth Century


TO BE A JEW IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother and listener she is, but she does not listen
Last Line: Daring to live for the impossible
Subject(s): Jews; Twentieth Century


TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, by KEVIN HART    Poem Source                    
First Line: When we arrive there
Last Line: Across the fields of sadness, walking towards the horizon
Subject(s): Human Rights; Modern Man; Twentieth Century; War


WHY IS OUR CENTURY WORSE THAN ANY OTHER?, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And calling the ravens and the ravens are in flight
Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna
Subject(s): Death; Human Rights; Pain; Twentieth Century