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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: AMUSEMENT PARKS Matches Found: 15 AMUSEMENT, by LEE WILSON DODD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Laughter of comrades, laughter Last Line: Day after day . . . After day . . . . . Subject(s): Amusement Parks CARNY, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: As we watch him work under Last Line: Until we can't breathe, %until our screams are perfect Subject(s): Amusement Parks; Labor And Laborers; Relationships CONEY ISLAND, by FILLMORE HYDE Poem Source First Line: Go to coney island where the bright lights twinkle Last Line: See a half a million faces %and you won't know one Subject(s): Amusement Parks; Coney Island, New York City DISNEY: THE WALL, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: I'll never forget the way snow hite Last Line: In the hands of the disney corporation: %it's the most american thing we could have done Subject(s): Amusement Parks; Disney, Walt (1901-1966); Patriotism; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MARLBOROUGH FAIR, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I warr'nt our street be near so wide Last Line: And the long down is whispering low 'goodnight.' Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Abandonment; Amusement Parks; Animals; Children; Churchyards; Circus; Country Dances; Country Life; Entertainers; Festivals; Fiddles; Games; Guns; Lions; Marlborough, England; Merry-go-grounds; Mourning; Musical Instruments; Night; Pleasure; Desertion; C OLD AMUSEMENT PARK (BEFORE IT BECAME LA GUARDIA AIRPORT), by MARIANNE MOORE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hurry, worry, unwary / visitor, never vary Subject(s): Americans; Amusement Parks; United States; America OLD AMUSEMENT PARK (BEFORE IT BECAME LA GUARDIA AIRPORT), by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hurry, worry, unwary %visitor, never vary Last Line: When the triumph is reflective %and confusion, retroactive Subject(s): Americans; Amusement Parks; United States PEAK ACTIVITY IN BOADWALK HAM CONCESSION, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was that they heard past the peal Subject(s): Amusement Parks PENNY ARCADE, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: This pale and dusty palace under the el Subject(s): Amusement Parks RALEGH'S PRIZES, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And summer turns her head with its dark tangle Subject(s): Summer; Seashore; Amusement Parks; Beach; Coast; Shore ROLLER COASTER CHILD, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: The roller coaster child is still at the fair Last Line: Is no different from the one behind Subject(s): Amusement Parks THE FUN HOUSE FABLE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the mirror of his mother died Last Line: And the roller coaster clocked to the top. Subject(s): Amusement Parks; Death; Dead, The THE GIANT SLIDE, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the highway, the giant slide Subject(s): Amusement Parks; Transience; Impermanence THE MERRY-GO-ROUND, by E. A. L. GRIFFIN Poem Text First Line: What blissful thrills of merriment are found Last Line: Till, lo! He calls a halt—and comes the end. Subject(s): Amusement Parks; Children; Games; Merry-go-grounds; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Carousels WHITE LAKE, by JAMES APPLEWHITE Poem Source First Line: Rimmed in by cypresses, tin water flashed Last Line: A tree-tall whirling as if spun by a giant Subject(s): Amusement Parks |
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