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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CHAOS Matches Found: 33 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 22-MAR-93, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: A spiral was distilled Last Line: The castle has a terrible face Subject(s): Chaos; Relationships APOCALYPTIC, 1915, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Our world beyond a year of dread Last Line: Sculptor of immortality. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Chaos; Earth; Pain; War; World; Suffering; Misery AWAITING THE BARBARIANS, by CONSTANTINE P. CAVAFY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What are we waiting for assembled in the marketplace? Last Line: And now what will become of us without barbarians? %those people surely were a kind of solution Alternate Author Name(s): Kavafis, Konstantinos; Cavafy, C. P. Subject(s): Chaos CHAOS EX MACHINA, by JOAN VAN POZNAK Poem Source First Line: The coffee machine won't pass water Last Line: And my typewriter's had its last writes Subject(s): Chaos; Machinery And Machinists CONNOISSEUR OF CHAOS, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A violent order is disorder; and Subject(s): Chaos CONNOISSEUR OF CHAOS, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A violent order is disorder; and Last Line: For which the intricate alps are a single nest Subject(s): Chaos ENTROPY, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: He is just about to turn in, when he gets to thinking Last Line: The containers of humankind, do their slow drift %toward some chaotic final state Subject(s): Chaos; Entropy ETCHED CATASTROPHE, by EDWARD NOBLES Poem Source First Line: A sunday night, the most predestined Last Line: Has no more pressing duty %than to sleep Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Chaos FORMING CHAOS, THE SIMPLEST, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: As accidental as true matter Subject(s): Chaos HOTEL LAUTRéAMONT, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Research has shown that ballads were produced by all of society Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Chaos HUNDRED THOUSAND MILLION MITES., by CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Who sent us forth? Who brings us home again? Subject(s): Chaos; World War I IN THE SUBWAY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chaos is tamed and ordered as we ride Last Line: Reading their papers calmly, leisurely. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Chaos; Insanity; Social Protest; Madness; Mental Illness MANGIA ITALIANO WITH STEVE, by MICHAEL CASTRO Poem Source First Line: South side cheap pasta eats Last Line: Free music, the only music %that's worth it' Subject(s): Chaos; Friendship MASTERPIECE OF PROPHYLACTICS (SCHIZOPHRENIC), by ISHLE YI PARK Poem Source First Line: Socks a field of blue and white...Like that chess game you home-made at the Last Line: It is their very nature to trust plastic Subject(s): Chaos; Insanity; Reason MAXIMIAN, ELEGY 5, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky is perfectly clear Subject(s): Chaos; Grief; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Social Protest; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations MAXIMIAN, ELEGY 5, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky is perfectly clear Last Line: Ever lived, had stepped across my grave Subject(s): Chaos; Grief; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Social Protest MISTAKES, by NANCE VAN WINCKEL Poem Source First Line: The taxis veering around the clown were empty Last Line: In some soon-to-be-famous hot spot Subject(s): Chaos; Clowns PARADISE LIGHTNING DAZZLE: BLUE PENINSULA, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Above / dazzled battlements Subject(s): Chaos; Heaven; Love; Paradise SILENCE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thousands and thousands of Last Line: And came tiptoeing toward me down the sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Chaos; Night; Silence; Bedtime SOME USELESS INFORMATION ABOUT A CERTAIN KIND OF POETRY, by RAYMOND QUENEAU Poem Source First Line: It's quite true that you have to say it's snowing when it's snowing Last Line: It's a bit at random... %like that... Subject(s): Chaos; Poetry And Poets SONNET: 168, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will put chaos into fourteen lines Last Line: I shall not even force him to confess; %or answer. I will only make him good Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Variant Title(s): I Will Put Chaos Into Fourteen Line Subject(s): Chaos STRANGE BEWILDERMENT, by HARVEY W. FLINK Poem Text First Line: All through the day I heard the north wind blow Last Line: By love, I sought old paths, but sought in vain. Subject(s): Change; Chaos STRIDES, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Logic strides where the seagull's beak Last Line: Shreds of crab or gull or man. Subject(s): Chaos; Reason; Sea THE LAST MAN: EXTREME ACCLIVITY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Its impossible ascent was steep Last Line: The ghost of chaos haunts the ruined sky. Subject(s): Chaos; Climbing THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 148, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once we're born we're confused Last Line: This is why I grieve Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Birth; Chaos; Chinese Literature; Grief; Child Birth; Midwifery; Sorrow; Sadness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 73, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chaos was happy / it neither ate not peed Last Line: The crowd yells run for your life Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chaos; Chinese Literature; Life THE REBEL, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A riot-maker! Can the fruit Last Line: The laughter of her greater sons. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Chaos; Life; Revolutions THE ROAD THROUGH CHAOS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is one road, one only, to the light Last Line: Conquer your world, and find the eternal goal. Subject(s): Beauty; Chaos; Hearts; Light; Pilate, Pontius; Roads; Truth; Paths; Trails THE SECOND COMING, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Turning and turning in the widening gyre Last Line: Slouches towards bethlehem to be born? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Chaos; Easter; History; Holidays; Imagination; Judgment Day; Men; Millenium; Religion; Vision; War; The Resurrection; Historians; Fancy; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology UNCLE, by MARILYN KALLET Poem Source First Line: It never rains in kauai,' the resort manager bragged Last Line: Ready to explode, fire in the hold Subject(s): Chaos; Rain; Storms WHEN I WAS THE SUBJECT, by JORDAN DAVIS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: How we or anything exists Last Line: Points sticking out Subject(s): Chaos; Imagination; Fancy WHEN I WAS THE SUBJECT, by JORDAN DAVIS Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: How we or anything exists Subject(s): Chaos; Imagination; Fancy WHEN I WAS THE SUBJECT, by JORDAN DAVIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How we or anything exists Last Line: Without the sharp %points sticking out Subject(s): Chaos; Imagination |
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