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Robert Frost accused this author of writing too much about “bric-a-brac.” This author describes (10[1])“Coffee and oranges in a sunny (10[1])chair” (10[3])in a (-5[1])poem (10[1])that (10[1])ends (10[1])with pigeons descending (10[1])“on extended wings.” A man riding “over Connecticut” fears (10[1])“the shadow (10[1])of his equipage” (10[1])in a poem by this author of “Sunday Morning.” (10[10])This (-5[1])author (10[5]-5[1])asks (10[1])why (-5[1])golden (10[1])versions (10[2])of the title figures are imagined by the “Thin men (10[1])of Haddam” (10[3])in a poem (10[2])that opens “Among twenty (10[1])snowy mountains.” (10[2])Another poem (10[1])by (10[1])this author commands the reader to “call the roller of big cigars.” (10[5]-5[2])For 10 (10[1])points, (10[2]-5[2])name this (10[1])American poet of (10[1])“Thirteen Ways of Looking (10[2]-5[1])at a Blackbird” (10[1]-5[2])and “The (10[1])Emperor of Ice Cream.” (10[1])■END■ (10[7]0[25])

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