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The speaker of an essay about this writer imagines being “an insect, vibrating at the frames of windows, clinging to panes of glass.” That essay argues that this writer translated subversiveness into a “dialect called metaphor” and praises lines about an “imperial thunderbolt” and winds taking “forests in their paws.” That essay, which imagines “traveling at the speed of time” to this (10[1])writer’s home, (10[1])takes its title from one of several poems by this author that mention volcanoes. This (10[1])subject of Adrienne Rich’s (10[2])“Vesuvius (10[1])at Home” (10[2])wrote about (10[1])roaming through “Sovreign (10[1])Woods” (10[1])and hunting a doe in a poem about having “the power to kill” but not “the power (10[2])to die.” In that poem by this author, the “Mountains straight reply” when the title object is fired. For 10 points, name this poet of “My Life had stood a Loaded (10[3])Gun.” (10[1])■END■ (10[6]0[1])

ANSWER: Emily Dickinson [or Emily Elizabeth Dickinson]
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Khushi UmarwadiaSouth CarolinaMinnesota B14210
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