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

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