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15:12, 28 June 2024 Sorin.gheorghiu talk contribs changed group membership for Jannis.buschky from (none) to administrator and bureaucrat
10:16, 24 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page XI (The Right of Way) (Created page with "<meta author="Williams, William Carlos" additional_information="This poem was published in Williams's book Spring and All. We took this poem from a version of Spring and All which was published in 1970." year_of_publication="1923" genre="Poetry" publisher="" journal="" page_range="" /> <annotations> == XI (The Right of Way) == <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> In passing with my mind on nothing in the world </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords="road"> <p...")
10:04, 24 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Untermeyer, Louis (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = Male | ethnicity = Caucasian | nationality = American | life span = 1885-1977 }}")
10:04, 24 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Portrait of a Machine (Created page with "<meta author="Untermeyer, Louis" year_of_publication="1922" genre="Poetry" publisher="New York: Hartcourt, Brace and Company" journal="American Poetry" page_range="114" /> <annotations> == Portrait of a Machine == <paragraph keywords="anthropomorphism, engine, personification, metaphor, sound"> <poem> What nudity is beautiful as this Obedient monster purring at its toil; These naked iron muscles dripping oil And the sure-fingered rods that never miss. This lo...")
10:03, 24 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Wars (Created page with "<meta author="Sandburg, Carl" year_of_publication="1916" genre="Poetry" publisher="Ney York: Henry Holt and Company" journal="Chicago Poems" page_range="96" /> <annotations> == Wars == <paragraph keywords="car part, engine, risk, sound, technology, weapon"> <poem> In the old wars drum of hoofs and the beat of shod feet. In the new wars hum of motors and the tread of rubber tires. In the wars to come silent wheels and whirr of rods not yet dreamed out in the h...")
10:02, 24 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page To Beachey (Created page with "<meta author="Sandburg, Carl" year_of_publication="1916" genre="Poetry" publisher="Ney York: Henry Holt and Company" journal="Chicago Poems" page_range="52" /> <annotations> == To Beachey == <paragraph keywords="driving, east, personification, sound"> <poem> RIDING against the east, A veering, steady shadow Purrs the motor-call Of the man-bird Ready with the death-laughter In his throat And in his heart always The love of the big blue beyond. </poem> </paragr...")
10:02, 24 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page The Road and the End (Created page with "<meta author="Sandburg, Carl" year_of_publication="1916" genre="Poetry" publisher="Ney York: Henry Holt and Company" journal="Chicago Poems" page_range="96" /> <annotations> == The Road and the End == <paragraph keywords="road"> <poem> The Road and the End </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords="metaphor, pedestrianism, road, sky, tree, wind"> <poem> I shall foot it Down the roadway in the dusk, Where shapes of hunger wander And the fugitives of pain go b...")
10:00, 24 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Soiled Dove (Created page with "<meta author="Sandburg, Carl" year_of_publication="1916" genre="Poetry" publisher="Ney York: Henry Holt and Company" journal="Chicago Poems" page_range="153" /> <annotations> == Soiled Dove == <paragraph keywords="car, driver, metaphor"> <poem> Let us be honest; the lady was not a harlot until she married a corporation lawyer who picked her from a Ziegfeld chorus. Before then she never took anybody's money and paid for her silk stockings out of what she earne...")
09:59, 24 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page In a Breath (Created page with "<meta author="Sandburg, Carl" year_of_publication="1916" genre="Poetry" publisher="Ney York: Henry Holt and Company" journal="Chicago Poems" page_range="54" /> <annotations> == In a Breath == <paragraph keywords="car, engine, sound, road, road surface, traffic, urban"> <poem> High noon. White sun flashes on the Michigan Avenue asphalt. Drum of hoofs and whirr of motors.Women trap sing along in flimsy clothes catching play of sun-fire to their skin and eyes. <...")
09:57, 24 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Clark Street Bridge (Created page with "<meta author="Sandburg, Carl" year_of_publication="1916" genre="Poetry" publisher="Ney York: Henry Holt and Company" journal="Chicago Poems" page_range="12" /> <annotations> == Clark Street Bridge == <paragraph keywords="car part, pedestrianism, pollution, traffic, urban"> <poem> Dust of the feet And dust of the wheels, Wagons and people going, All day feet and wheels. </paragraph> <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> Now. . . . . Only stars and mist A lonely pol...")
09:56, 24 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Newsome, Mary Effie Lee (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = Female | ethnicity = African-American | nationality = American | life span = 1885-1979 }}")
09:56, 24 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page The Baker's Boy (Created page with "<meta author="Newsome, Mary Effie Lee" additional_information="This version of the poem was published in 1941." year_of_publication="1927" genre="Poetry" publisher="New York: Harper & Row Publishers" journal="Golden Slippers. An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Readers" page_range="26" /> <annotations> == The Baker's Boy == <paragraph keywords="car, road"> <poem> The baker's boy delivers loaves All up and down our street. His car is white, his clothes ar...")
09:54, 24 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Roads (Created page with "<meta author="Lowell, Amy" year_of_publication="1922" genre="Poetry" publisher="Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company" journal="A Dome of Many-Colored Glass" page_range="53" /> <annotations> == Roads == <paragraph keywords="road, scenery, sublime, summer"> <poem> I know a country laced with roads, They join the hills and they span the brooks, They weave like a shuttle between broad fields, And slide discreetly through hidden nooks. They are canopied like a Persian...")
11:19, 23 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Washington Square (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="115-116" /> <annotations> == Washington Square == <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> Starless and still... Who stopped this heart? Who bound this city in a trance? </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> With open eyes the sleeping houses stare at the Park: And among nude boughs the slumbering...")
11:18, 23 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page The Morning Stars (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="23" /> <annotations> == The Morning Stars == <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> OF OLD the psalmist said that the morning stars sing together, He said the rocks do sing and that the hills rejoice... </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords="urban, car, car part, sound"> <poem> There be ten million ears in...")
11:18, 23 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page The Man Speaks (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="83-84" /> <annotations> == The Man Speaks == <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> YOU and I in the night, spied on by stars... You and I in the belovéd night... You and I within these walls. </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> A breath from the sea is kissing the housetops of the city, Kiss...")
11:17, 23 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page The Love-Hour (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="90-91" /> <annotations> == The Love-Hour == <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> WHERE may she of the hall bedroom hold the love-hour? In what sweet privacy find her soul before the face of the belovéd? And the kiss that lifts her from the noise of the shop, And the bitter carelessness of the streets? Neither...")
11:15, 23 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page When Dawn Comes to the City (Created page with "<meta author="McKay, Claude" year_of_publication="1920" genre="Poetry" publisher="London Grant Richards Ltd" journal="Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems" page_range="36-37" /> <annotations> == When Dawn Comes to the City == <paragraph keywords="car, personification, twilight, urban"> <poem> The tired cars go grumbling by, The moaning, groaning cars, And the old milk carts go rumbling by Under the same dull stars. Out of the tenements, cold as stone, D...")
11:03, 23 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page The Night Fire (Created page with "<meta author="McKay, Claude" year_of_publication="1922" genre="Poetry" publisher="New York Harcourt, Brace and Company" journal="Harlem Shadows" page_range="55" /> <annotations> == The Night Fire == <paragraph keywords="engine, night, death"> <poem> No engines shrieking rescue storm the night, And hose and hydrant cannot here avail; The flames laugh high and fling their challenging light, And clouds turn gray and black from silver-pale. The fire leaps out...")
11:02, 23 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Papine Corner (Created page with "<meta author="McKay, Claude" year_of_publication="1912" genre="Poetry" publisher="London Watts & Co." journal="Constab Ballads" page_range="40-42" /> <annotations> == Papine Corner == <paragraph keywords=""> <poem> When you want to meet a frien', Bide up to Papine, Where dere's people to no en', Old, young, fat an' lean : When you want nice gals fe court An' to feel jus' booze', Go'p to Papine as a sport Dress' in ge'man clo'es. </poem> </paragraph> <par...")
11:01, 23 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page On Broadway (Created page with "<meta author="McKay, Claude" year_of_publication="1920" genre="Poetry" publisher="London Grant Richards Ltd" journal="Spring in New Hampshire and Other Poems" page_range="18" /> <annotations> == On Broadway == <paragraph keywords="pedestrianism, urban"> <poem> About me young and careless feet Linger along- the garish street ; Above, a hundred shouting signs Shed down their bright fantastic glow Upon the merry crowd and lines Of moving carriages below : O w...")
11:01, 23 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Knutsford Park Races (Created page with "<meta author="McKay, Claude" year_of_publication="1912" genre="Poetry" publisher="London Watts & Co." journal="Constab Ballads" page_range="59-61" /> <annotations> == Knutsford Park Races == <paragraph keywords="car"> <poem> BATCH o' p'licemen, lookin' fine, Tramp away to de car line ; No more policemen can be Smart as those from Half Way Tree : Happy, all have happy faces, For 'tis Knutsford Park big races. </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph keywords="trai...")
11:00, 23 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page McKay, Claude (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = Male | ethnicity = African-American | nationality = Jamaican-American | life span = 1890-1948 }}")
10:59, 23 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Dawn in New York (Created page with "<meta author="McKay, Claude" year_of_publication="1922" genre="Poetry" publisher="New York_Harcourt, Brace and Company" journal="Harlem Shadows" page_range="43" /> <annotations> == Dawn in New York == <paragraph keywords="twilight, urban, car, car metaphor"> <poem> The Dawn! The Dawn! The crimson-tinted, comes Out of the low still skies, over the hills, Manhattan's roofs and spires and cheerless domes! The Dawn! My spirit to its spirit thrills. Almost the...")
10:58, 23 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page The Bridge: VII The Tunnel (1930) (Created page with "<meta author="Crane, Hart" additional_information="edited by Waldo Frank." year_of_publication="1933" genre="Poetry" publisher="New York_Liveright Publishing Corporation" journal="The Collected Poems of Hart Crane" page_range="49-54" /> <annotations> == The Bridge: VII The Tunnel (1930) == <paragraph keywords="night, vision"> <poem> PERFORMANCES, assortments, résumés— Up Times Square to Columbus Circle lights Channel the congresses, nightly sessions,...")
10:57, 23 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page The Bridge: IV Cape Hatteras (1930) (Created page with "<meta author="Crane, Hart" additional_information="edited by Waldo Frank." year_of_publication="1933" genre="Poetry" publisher="New York_ Liveright Publishing Corporation" journal="The Collected Poems of Hart Crane" page_range="31-39" /> <annotations> == The Bridge: IV Cape Hatteras (1930) == <paragraph keywords="animal, East"> <poem> Imponderable the dinosaur sinks slow, the mammoth saurian ghoul, the eastern Cape ... </poem> </paragraph> <paragraph k...")
10:55, 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...")
13:15, 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 }}")
13:14, 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...")
13:13, 22 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Unknown (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = | ethnicity = | nationality = | life span = }}")
13:13, 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...")
13:12, 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 }}")
13:11, 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...")
13:08, 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...")
13:08, 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 }}")
13:07, 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...")
13:07, 22 May 2024 Jannis.buschky talk contribs created page Reynolds, Elsbery Washington (Created page with "{{Infobox Author | gender = | ethnicity = | nationality = | life span = }}")
13:06, 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...")
13:05, 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 }}")
13:04, 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...")
13:04, 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 = }}")
13:03, 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...")
13:02, 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 }}")
13:01, 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...")
13:00, 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 }}")
12:59, 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...")
13:11, 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...")
13:10, 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...")
13:10, 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 }}")
13:09, 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...")