The Reader's Atlas
Poems About Social Class and Inequalityin the open canon
- Indexed poems
- 344
- Indexed poets
- 0
- Short poems
- 26
Where to begin with social class and inequality
Three ways in01 · Most-read entry
A Game of Chess
by T. S. Eliot, 1922
Read the line-by-line analysis, themes, and historical context for this entry in Storgy's index.
02 · Editor's pick
Drummer Hodge
by Thomas Hardy, 1899
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03 · Counterpoint
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
by Ezra Pound, 1920
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§03 The index
Every poem in this theme
- 01
A Game of Chess
T. S. Eliot1922Excerpt - 02
Drummer Hodge
Thomas Hardy1899PD - 03
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
Ezra Pound1920Excerpt - 04
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
T. S. Eliot1915Excerpt - 05
Morning at the Window
T. S. Eliot1917Excerpt - 06
My Last Duchess
Robert Browning1842PD - 07
Peace in a Palace
Alfred Noyes1922Excerpt - 08
Porphyria's Lover
Robert Browning1836PD - 09
Preludes
T. S. Eliot1917Excerpt - 10
Slave and Emperor
Alfred Noyes1918Excerpt - 11
Sympathy
Paul Laurence Dunbar1899PD - 12
The Chimney-Sweeps of Cheltenham
Alfred Noyes1922Excerpt - 13
The Death of the Hired Man
Robert Frost1914Excerpt - 14
The Fire Sermon
T. S. Eliot1922Excerpt - 15
The General
Siegfried Sassoon1917Excerpt - 16
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
T. S. Eliot1915Excerpt - 17
The Man Who Discovered the Use of a Chair
Alfred Noyes1922Excerpt - 18
The New Colossus
Emma Lazarus1883PD - 19
The People's Fleet
Alfred Noyes1922Excerpt - 20
The Waste Land
T. S. Eliot1922Excerpt
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Short poems about social class and inequality
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Under 12 lines