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09:55, 23 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen (Created page with "<meta author="Crane, Hart" additional_information="edited by Michael Roberts." year_of_publication="1923" genre="Poetry" publisher="London_ Faber and Faber" journal="The Faber Book of Modern Verses" page_range="211-213" /> <annotations> == For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen == <paragraph keywords="night, car metaphor, weapon"> <poem> Capped arbiter of beauty in this street That narrows darkly into motor dawn,— You, here beside me, delicate ambassado...")
12:15, 22 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Williams, William Carlos (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = Male | ethnicity = Caucasian | nationality = American | life span = 1883-1963 }}")
12:14, 22 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page The Young Housewife (Created page with "<meta author="Williams, William Carlos" additional_information="The poem was originally published in 1916." year_of_publication="2000" genre="Poetry" publisher="New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation" journal="William Carlos Williams. The Collected Poems Volume I 1909-1939" page_range="57" /> <annotations> == The Young Housewife == <paragraph keywords="car, driver"> <poem> At ten A.M. the young housewife moves about in negligee behind the wooden wa...")
12:13, 22 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Unknown (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = | ethnicity = | nationality = | life span = }}")
12:13, 22 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page The Spirit of Transportation (Created page with "<meta author="Unknown" year_of_publication="1922" genre="Poetry" journal="Touring Topics, February 1922" page_range="23" /> <annotations> == The Spirit of Transportation == <paragraph keywords="metaphor, speed"> <poem> I am the Spirit of Things that Are, Born of an urgent need, Of the Force that lies In a Man's surmise In a day ere the Age of Speed </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> I was at hand when the primal herd Toiled o'er the heavy Sle...")
12:12, 22 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Service, Robert William (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = Male | ethnicity = Caucasian | nationality = Scottish-Canadian | life span = 1874-1958 }}")
12:11, 22 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Quatrains (Created page with "<meta author="Service, Robert William" year_of_publication="1907" genre="Poetry" publisher="New York: Barse & Hopkins" journal="Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses" page_range="59-60" /> <annotations> == Quatrains == <paragraph keywords="car, metaphor, metaphysics"> <poem> One said: Thy life is thine to make or mar, To flicker feebly, or to soar, a star; It lies with thee — the choice is thine, is thine, To hit the ties or drive thy auto-car. </poem> </para...")
12:08, 22 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Portrait of a Motor Car (Created page with "<meta author="Sandburg, Carl" year_of_publication="1918" genre="Poetry" publisher="New York: Henry Holt and Company" journal="Cornhuskers" page_range="55" /> <annotations> == Portrait of a Motor Car == <paragraph keywords="animals, anthropomorphism, car, car metaphor, driver, personification"> <poem> It's a lean car… a long-legged dog of a car … a gray-ghost eagle car. The feet of it eat the dirt of a road… the wings of it eat the hills. Danny the drive...")
12:08, 22 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Sandburg, Carl (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = Male | ethnicity = Ethnicity | nationality = American | life span = 1878-1967 }}")
12:07, 22 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Clean Curtains (Created page with "<meta author="Sandburg, Carl" year_of_publication="1920" genre="Poetry" publisher="New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe" journal="Smoke and Steel" page_range="41" /> <annotations> == Clean Curtains == <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> New neighbors came to the corner house at Congress and Green streets. </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> The look of their clean white curtains was the sam eas the rim of a nun's bonnet. </poem> </paragraph> <par...")
12:07, 22 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Reynolds, Elsbery Washington (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = | ethnicity = | nationality = | life span = }}")
12:06, 22 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Our California (Created page with "<meta author="Reynolds, Elsbery Washington" year_of_publication="1924" genre="Poetry" publisher="Chicago: The Book Supply Company" journal="AutoLine o’Type" page_range="20" /> <annotations> == Our California == <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> We wrote to a friend back east one day, And told him all we thought to say. We filled a dozen pages or more, Of the glories of this far western shore. </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> He said, when...")
12:05, 22 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Parker, Dorothy (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = Female | ethnicity = Caucasian | nationality = American | life span = 1893-1967 }}")
12:04, 22 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Finis (Created page with "<meta author="Parker, Dorothy" year_of_publication="1926" genre="Poetry" publisher="New York: Horace Liveright" journal="Enough Rope" page_range="82" /> <annotations> == Finis == <paragraph keywords="animals, anthropomorphism, car, car metaphor, personification, "> <poem> Now it’s over, and now it’s done; Why does everything look the same? Just as bright, the unheeding sun, — Can’t it see that the parting came? People hurry and work and swear. La...")
12:04, 22 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Naylor, James Ball (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = Male | ethnicity = Caucasian | nationality = American | life span = }}")
12:03, 22 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page The Song of the Motor Car (Created page with "<meta author="Naylor, James Ball" year_of_publication="1909" genre="Poetry" journal="Collier’s, vol.42, no.17" page_range="22" /> <annotations> == The Song of the Motor Car == <paragraph keywords="affect, driving, mountain, personification, technology"> <poem> I’M THE coy and ingenuous toy of the strenuous Era of Civilized Man, I’m the truly respectably, duly delectable Outcome of project and plan; And my gassy and thunderful, massy and wonderful Shape sp...")
12:02, 22 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page MacNeice, Louis (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = Male | ethnicity = Caucasian | nationality = Irish | life span = 1907-1963 }}")
12:01, 22 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Sunday Morning (Created page with "<meta author="Mac-Neice, Louis" year_of_publication="1923" genre="Poetry" publisher="London: Faber and Faber" journal="The Faber Book of Modern Verses" page_range="304" /> <annotations> == Sunday Morning == <paragraph keywords="architecture, car, car part, driving, maintenance, pleasure, risk, road, speed"> <poem> Down the road someone is practising scales, The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails, Man’s heart expands to tinker with his car...")
12:00, 22 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Lowell, Amy (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = Female | ethnicity = Caucasian | nationality = American | life span = 1874-1925 }}")
11:59, 22 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page A South California Forest (Created page with "<meta author="Lowell, Amy" year_of_publication="1927" genre="Poetry" publisher="Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Company" journal="Ballads for Sale" page_range="199-200" /> <annotations> == A South Carolina Forest == <paragraph keywords="car part, driving, forest, passenger, risk, road, speed, death, tree"> <poem> Hush, hush, these woods are thick with shapes and voices, They crowd behind, in front, Scarcely can one’s wheels break through them. For God...")
12:11, 21 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Civilization (Created page with "<meta author="Oppenheim, James" year_of_publication="1914" genre="Poetry" publisher="New York: The Century Co." journal="Songs for the New Era" page_range="9-10" /> <annotations> == Civilization == <paragraph keywords="car, car part"> <poem> CIVILIZATION! Everybody kind and gentle, and men giving up their seats in the car for the women... What an ideal! How bracing! </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> Is this what we want? Have so many ge...")
12:10, 21 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page As to Being Alone (Created page with "<meta author="Oppenheim, James" year_of_publication="1914" genre="Poetry" publisher="New York: The Century Co." journal="Songs for the New Era" page_range="7-8" /> <annotations> == As to Being Alone == <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> WHY did you hate to be by yourself, And why were you sick of your own company? </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> Such the question, and this the answer: I feared sublimity: I was a little afraid of God: Sile...")
12:10, 21 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Oppenheim, James (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = Male | ethnicity = Caucasian | nationality = American | life span = 1882-1932 }}")
12:09, 21 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Abide the Adventure (Created page with "<meta author="Oppenheim, James" year_of_publication="1914" genre="Poetry" publisher="New York: The Century Co." journal="Songs for the New Era" page_range="39-40" /> <annotations> == Abide the Adventure == <paragraph keywords="affect, car metaphor, personification, sound, traffic"> <poem> NEITHER from the woe, Nor from the war, Think ye to escape... It helps nothing that ye shut your eyes, oh, cloistered cowards and gilded idlers! For neither shall cushion...")
12:09, 21 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page McDowell, Syl (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = | ethnicity = | nationality = | life span = }}")
12:08, 21 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Nomad Blood (Created page with "<meta author="McDowell, Syl" additional_information="The poem was originally published in the May issue of Touring Topics in 1926." year_of_publication="1979" genre="Poetry" publisher="Baltimore: Johns Hokins University Press" journal="Americans on the Road. From Autocamp to Motel, 1910-1945" page_range="15-16" /> <annotations> == Nomad Blood == <paragraph keywords="engine, personification, rural, wind"> <poem> Breezes tugging at the topbows, Motor singi...")
12:08, 21 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page MacKaye, Percy (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = Male | ethnicity = Caucasian | nationality = American | life span = 1875-1956 }}")
12:07, 21 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page From an Automobile (Created page with "<meta author="MacKaye, Percy" year_of_publication="1910" genre="Poetry" journal="Scribner’s Magazine, vol.47, no.1" page_range="114" /> <annotations> == From an Automobile == <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> FLUID the world dowed under us: the hills, Billow on billow of umbrageous green, Heaved us, aghast, to fresh horizons, One rapturous instant, blind with dash of rills And Silver rising storms and dewy stills Of dripping boulders, then the dim ravine Drow...")
12:06, 21 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Kilmer, Joyce (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = Male | ethnicity = Caucasian | nationality = American | life span = 1886-1918 }}")
12:06, 21 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Main Street (Created page with "<meta author="Kilmer, Joyce" year_of_publication="1917" genre="Poetry" publisher="New York: George H. Doran Company" journal="Main Street and Other Poems" page_range="13-15" /> <annotations> == Main Street == <paragraph keywords="scenery, snow, street"> <poem> I LIKE to look at the blossomy track of the moon upon the sea, But it isn't half so fine a sight as Main Street used to be When it all was covered over with a couple of feet of snow, And over the cri...")
12:05, 21 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Josephson, Matthew (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = Male | ethnicity = | nationality = American | life span = }}")
12:04, 21 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page With the Brain at the Wheel (Created page with "<meta author="Josephson, Matthew" additional_information="The poem was simultaneously published in a German and an American journal." year_of_publication="1923" genre="Poetry" publisher="Hanover/Zurich: Merz Verlag." journal="Merz6 Imitatoren, watch step! / Arp1: Propaganda und Arp" page_range="62" /> <annotations> == With the Brain at the Wheel == <paragraph keywords="affect, car part, metaphysics, road"> <poem> With the brain at the wheel the eye on th...")
12:03, 21 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Florida Road Workers (Created page with "<meta author="Hughes, Langston" additional_information="The poem was originally published in 1927." year_of_publication="1999" genre="Poetry" publisher="New York: Alfred A. Knopf Inc." journal="Langston Hughes: Poems" page_range="84" /> <annotations> == Florida Road Workers == <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> Hey, Buddy! Look at me! </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords="car, car metaphor, pioneer, road, south, speed"> <poem> I'm makin' a road For t...")
12:02, 21 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Hughes, Langston (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = Male | ethnicity = African-American | nationality = American | life span = 1901-1967 }}")
12:01, 21 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Baby (Created page with "<meta author="Hughes, Langston" additional_information="The poem was likely published earlier than 1927." year_of_publication="1999" genre="Poetry" publisher="New York: Alfred A. Knopf Inc." journal="Langston Hughes: Poems" page_range="68" /> <annotations> == Baby == <paragraph keywords="car, risk, road"> <poem> Albert! Hey, Albert! Don't you play in dat road. You see dem trucks A-goin' by. One run ovah you An' you die. Albert, don't you play in d...")
12:01, 21 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Hersey, Marie Louise (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = Female | ethnicity = | nationality = | life span = }}")
12:00, 21 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Provincetown (Created page with "<meta author="Hersey, Marie Louise" additional_information="The poem was originally in the The Independent, pre 1921." year_of_publication="1921" genre="Poetry" journal="Modern Verse. British and American" page_range="159-161" /> <annotations> == Provincetown == <paragraph keywords="east, road"> <poem> All summer in the close-locked streets the crowd Elbows its way past glittering shops to strains Of noisy rag-time, men and girls, dark skinned,— From war...")
11:59, 21 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page The Traffic of Life (Created page with "<meta author="Fraser, Vonard" year_of_publication="1922" genre="Poetry" journal="Touring Topics, September 1922" page_range="16" /> <annotations> == The Traffic of Life == <paragraph keywords="car, car metaphor, personification, road, scenery, topography"> <poem> Through the forest aisles to the silver sea, To the crest of the sun-kissed hills, As the motor sings on the Open Road And the heart of all nature thrills. </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords...")
11:58, 21 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Fraser, Vonard (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = | ethnicity = | nationality = | life span = }}")
11:58, 21 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Spring in California (Created page with "<meta author="Fraser, Vonard" year_of_publication="1922" genre="Poetry" journal="Touring Topics, May 1922" page_range="24" /> <annotations> == Spring in California == <paragraph keywords="car, personification, pleasure, road, scenery, sky, spring"> <poem> There's a strident call in the Open Road Where the Spring's glad message lies, And the motor sings me a joyous song With a lilt of the azure skies. </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords="metaphor, road...")
11:44, 20 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Lindsay, Nicholas Vachel (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = Male | ethnicity = Caucasian | nationality = American | life span = 1879-1931 }}")
11:43, 20 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page On The Road to Nowhere (Created page with "<meta author="Lindsay, Vachel" year_of_publication="1916" genre="Poetry" publisher="New York: Macmillan" journal="Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty" page_range="99-100" /> <annotations> == On the Road to Nowhere == <paragraph keywords="rural"> <poem> Upon Returning to the Country Road </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> Even the shrewd and bitter, Gnarled by the old world's greed, Cherished the stranger softly Seeing his utt...")
11:41, 20 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Cummings, Edward Estline (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = Male | ethnicity = Caucasian | nationality = American | life span = 1894-1962 }}")
11:39, 20 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page She being Brand (Created page with "<meta author="Cummings, Edward Estline" additional_information="The poem was originally published in 1926." year_of_publication="1991" genre="Poetry" publisher="New York: Liveright" journal="E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962" page_range="246" /> <annotations> == she being Brand == <paragraph keywords="personification"> <poem> she being Brand </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> -new;and you know consequently a little stiff i was ca...")
11:38, 20 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Crane, Hart (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = Male | ethnicity = Caucasian | nationality = American | life span = 1899-1932 }}")
11:37, 20 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Chaplinesque (Created page with "<meta author="Crane, Hart" additional_information="The poem was originally published in 1926." year_of_publication="1933" genre="Poetry" publisher="New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation" journal="April Airs: The Collected Poems of Hart Crane" page_range="73-74" /> <annotations> == Chaplinesque == <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> WE make our meek adjustments, Contented with such random consolations As the wind deposits In slithered and too ample pocket...")
11:36, 20 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Carman, Bliss (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = Male | ethnicity = Caucasian | nationality = Canadian | life span = 1861-1929 }}")
11:32, 20 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Lockerbie Street (Created page with "<meta author="Carman, Bliss" additional_information="The poem was originally published in 1914." year_of_publication="1920" genre="Poetry" publisher="Boston: Snall, Maynard and Company" journal="April Airs: A Book of New England Lyrics" page_range="13-15" /> <annotations> == Lockerbie Street == <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> FOR THE BIRTHDAY OF JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY, OCTOBER 7, 1914. </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords="animals, car, car driver, ro...")
11:31, 20 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Birney, Earl (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = Male | ethnicity = | nationality = Canadian | life span = 1904-1995 }}")
11:28, 20 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Driving Up the Sacramento (Created page with "<meta author="Birney, Earl" year_of_publication="1928, 1975" genre="Poetry" publisher="Toronto: McClelland Steward" journal="The Collected Poems of Earle Birney. Volume 1" page_range="38-39" /> <annotations> == Driving Up the Sacramento == <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> & you as remote now as that range Radiating heat not holding it The buttes rainstormed but instant dryers i remember you like opera </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords="car part, eng...")