A Hart Crane poem describes a “jest” falling from a “speechless” one of these things after a “bedlamite speeds to” a certain location. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these things. An 1821 poem symbolizes death by describing an “innumerable” one of these things which “moves / to that mysterious realm.”
ANSWER: caravans
[10m] That 1821 poem is this “meditation upon death” by William Cullen Bryant, which urges the reader to “approach thy grave” as one who “lies down to pleasant dreams.”
ANSWER: “Thanatopsis”
[10e] The “speechless caravan” metaphor comes from a Hart Crane poem titled for one of these structures in Brooklyn. An Ambrose Bierce story is titled for an “Occurrence” at one of these structures at “Owl Creek.”
ANSWER: bridges [accept The Bridge or “Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge” or “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”]