Poem

The More a Man Has the More a Man Wants

Title	The More a Man Has the More a Man Wants
Author	Paul Muldoon

Instances of Publication

A published appearance of this poem.

Collection/Anthology	Year of Publication	Medium	View Details
Poems 1968-1998	2001	Print Collection	View Details

Publication Instance Details #1731

Collection/Anthology Details

Collection/Anthology	Poems 1968-1998
Date of Publication	2001
Publisher	Faber and Faber (UK)
Page Number(s)	127-147

Publication Overview

Translation	Is Multilingual	Explicit Irish Context?	Ekphrasis	Has Paratext?	Reference to News, Media or Technology
No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes

Details

Human Rights Issues	War Assassination HR & Colonisation/Colonial Legacies Death Penalty/Unlawful Detention/Incarceration Gender-based violence Indigenous Rights (incl. culture & language) Terrorism/War on Terror
War / Genocide Referenced	Genocide: Genocide of indigenous people in USA (pre 20th century) War: Vietnam War
Irish Context	Colonization and Colonial Legacy (Ireland) Emigration (from Ireland) HR-related International Involvement (Ireland) Specific Irish place or place-name mentioned The Troubles/Sectarian Tensions (Ireland)
Languages	English
Genre	Long (narrative) Poem
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	A long, highly intertextual poem, in which the violence of Northern Ireland's Troubles is presented alongside the violent history of the colonisation of Native American peoples, and its aftermath. First published in Quoof (1982).

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