Packet A: Tossup 10

In a poem by this author, the speaker “[drops] down, and down” after a “Plank of Reason” breaks. (10[11])In another poem (10[1])by this author, (10[1])the speaker claims, (10[1])“sore must be the storm (10[1])/ That (10[1])could abash” the title figure. (10[3])“[The] Setting Sun” (10[1])and “the Fields (10[1])of (10[1])Gazing (-5[1])Grain” are passed (10[1])by (10[1])a (10[1])speaker (10[1]-5[1])created by (10[1]-5[1])this (10[2])author, (10[1]-5[1])who, in (10[1])another poem, (10[1])described (10[1])a figure (10[1])that “never… (10[1])asked (10[1])a crumb of me” (10[3])and (10[2])“perches (10[1])in (10[1])the soul.” (10[9])A (10[2])poem (10[1]-5[1])by this (10[1])author (10[1])centers (10[3]-5[1])on a (10[1])carriage ride (10[1])with Immortality (10[13])and the title (10[1])figure, (10[1]-5[1])who (10[4])“kindly [stops]” (10[1])for her. (10[9]-5[1])For (10[1])10 (10[1])points, (10[1])“‘Hope’ (10[1])is the thing (10[2])with (10[1])feathers” (10[1])was written by (10[1])what “Belle of Amherst” who also wrote (10[1])“Because I could not stop for Death?” (10[1])■END■ (10[3]0[5])

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