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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 (15[1])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 (15[1])from escaping his (15[1])(*) heart. One of these creatures questions “in all but words, what to make of a diminished thing” in a Robert (10[1])Frost poem. A poem (-5[1])describes an encounter with one of these creatures that drank dew from a “convenient grass” after it “came down from the walk.” One poem questions why “thin men of Hadden” fail to see one (10[1])of these creatures which is found “among twenty snowy mountains.” For 10 points, Wallace Stevens described thirteen ways of looking at what type of creature? ■END■ (10[1])

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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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Raymond ChenToronto Disband the Club 2k24Waterloo Basic3015
Ben WismathToronto BCarleton A6215
Gareth ThorlaksonToronto AWaterloo Cloze6515
Jared HeWaterloo AspidistraToronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha8510
Ishan JoshiToronto Metropolitan AMcGill A89-5
Halee CareyMcMaster ApocolocyntosisBidiiOttawa Absolomabsolomabsolom12310
Nick EdwardsMcGill AToronto Metropolitan A14910