A poem asks you to do this activity in a line that also asks you to “wrestle with wrestlers, march in line with the firemen, and pause, listen, count.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this activity. Another poem notes, “The rest did not see her, but she saw them and loved them” of a woman who becomes the 29th person to do this activity after watching “twenty-eight young men” doing this activity.
ANSWER: swimming [or word forms; accept bathing]
[10e] This poet wrote, “swim with the swimmers” in “I Sing the Body Electric.” The 29 bathers feature in this poet’s “Song of Myself.”
ANSWER: Walt Whitman
[10h] The speaker wonders if the sea will kill a “beautiful gigantic swimmer” in this Whitman poem. This dream vision features George Washington’s loss at the Battle of Brooklyn and a Native American woman’s visit to the speaker’s mother.
ANSWER: “The Sleepers”
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