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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PARKS, ROSA (1913-2005) Matches Found: 8 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CLAUDETTE COLVIN GOES TO WORK, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Menial twilight sweeps the storefronts along lexington Last Line: Whenever sleep comes down on me Subject(s): Bus Terminals; Parks, Rosa (1913-2005); Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry FREEDOM RIDE, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: As if, after high street Last Line: Or a mosque adrift on a milk-fed pond Subject(s): Buses; Parks, Rosa (1913-2005); Civil Rights Movement IN THE LOBBY OF THE WARNER THEATRE, WASHINGTON, DC, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: They'd positioned her - two attendants flanking the wheelchair Last Line: Waiting for the moment to take her Subject(s): Parks, Rosa (1913-2005); Washington, D.c. ROSA, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How she sat there Subject(s): Etiquette; Parks, Rosa (1913-2005); Manners; Courtesy SIT BACK, RELAX, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, lord. No rest Last Line: Just plain grieves Subject(s): Parks, Rosa (1913-2005); Religion; Theology THE ENACTMENT, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Can't use no teenager, especially Last Line: We have prepared for her Subject(s): Parks, Rosa (1913-2005); Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry THE POND, PORCH-VIEW: SIX P.M., EARLY SPRING, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I sit, and sit, and will my thoughts Last Line: Who am I kidding? Here I am Subject(s): Parks, Rosa (1913-2005); Spring THE SITUATION IS INTOLERABLE', by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Intolerable: that civilized word Last Line: O yes. O mercy on our souls Subject(s): Parks, Rosa (1913-2005); Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry |
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