Question

Ada Limón imagines that she possesses “the huge beating genius machine” of one of these animals in the poem “How to Triumph Like a Girl.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these animals that “were drawn of blood” and “were bodies of sand” according to a Joy Harjo poem named for them.
ANSWER: horses [accept “She Had Some Horses”]
[10m] While in this city, Limón realizes that the titular “Miracle Fish” is moved by the “massive ocean inside me.” A Walt Whitman poem about a ferry in this city declares, “Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face!”
ANSWER: New York City [or NYC; accept Brooklyn; accept “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”]
[10e] In another poem, Limón describes one of these birds as a “naked child swinging in the wind.” Edgar Allen Poe wrote a poem about one of these birds that croaks “Nevermore.”
ANSWER: raven [accept “Dream of the Raven;” accept “The Raven”]
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Cornell DBinghamton A0101020
Cornell BBinghamton B001010
Binghamton CCornell F001010
Cornell CRIT B001010
U of Rochester ACornell E001010
Cornell ACornell G0101020
ESFRIT C001010
SyracuseRIT A1001020
Penn StateU of Rochester B001010
Penn StateU of Rochester B001010
Penn StateU of Rochester B001010
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Penn StateU of Rochester B001010
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