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Subject: BERLIN WALL
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BERLIN WALL TUNE, by JOSEPH BRODSKY    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the house destroyed by jack
Last Line: Or that the quacks ask too high a fee, %come to this wall, and see
Subject(s): Berlin Wall


ESCAPE FROM EAST BERLIN, by PETER SEARS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The berlin wall went through our heads
Subject(s): Berlin Wall; Cold War


OVER THE WALL: BERLIN, MAY 1975, by CHARLES HUBERT SISSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: He will go over and tell the king
Last Line: Yet the afternoon sun falls upon faces %less tame than tigers
Subject(s): Berlin Wall; Cold War; Travel


SITTING ON THE BERLIN WALL, by PATRICK HICKS    Poem Source                    
First Line: On my way back to belfast I wandered past bebelplatz
Last Line: That there is still work to be done
Subject(s): Berlin Wall; Memory; Pain


THE BERLIN WALL TUNE, by JOSEPH BRODSKY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the house destroyed by jack
Last Line: At pendulums they don’t shoot
Subject(s): Berlin Wall