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In one poem, Billy Collins described a painter kneeling and whispering to the dying body of one of these creatures. According to Helen Vendler, there existed two versions of a poem about one of these creatures that differed in the punctuation after “cautious.” The narrator of a Charles Bukowski poem describes pouring whiskey and inhaling cigarette smoke to stop one of these creatures from escaping his (*) heart. One of these creatures questions “in all but words, what to make of a diminished thing” in a Robert Frost poem. A poem describes an encounter with one of these creatures that drank dew (-5[1])from a “convenient grass” after it “came down from the walk.” One poem questions why “thin men of Hadden” fail to see (-5[1])one of these creatures which is found “among (10[1])twenty snowy mountains.” (10[1])For 10 points, Wallace Stevens described (10[1])thirteen ways (10[1])of looking at (10[1])what type of creature? ■END■

ANSWER: bird [accept blackbird or bluebird, accept “Birds of America” or “The Oven Bird” or “A Bird, Came down from the Walk” or “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird]
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