Packet F: Tossup 17

A poem claims that everything “parts away for the progress of” this concept and calls happiness the “efflux” of this concept. The speaker ends another poem by telling “dumb, beautiful ministers” that “you furnish your parts toward” this concept. (10[9]-5[1])This (10[1])concept’s (10[1])“gossamer thread” (10[1])is likened to that of an animal (10[2]-5[2])in the second (10[1])stanza (-5[1])of “A Noiseless Patient Spider.” “All things” are said to please this (10[1])concept in “I Sing the Body Electric,” (10[1])which ends by equating a catalogue of items to this concept. (-5[1])The (-5[1])speaker claims to “loafe and (10[1])invite” (10[1])this (10[1])concept (10[2]-5[1])in “Song (10[1])of Myself.” (10[2]-5[4])Another poem (-5[1])claims (10[1])that (-5[1])this concept “shuts the Door to her divine (-5[1])Majority” and (10[1])“selects her own (10[1])Society.” (10[6])For 10 points, (10[4]-5[1])Emily Dickinson (10[1]-5[1])wrote (10[1]-5[1])that (10[1]-5[1])“hope (-5[2])is the thing (10[1]-5[5])with (-5[3])feathers (-5[4])that perches (-5[2])in” (10[1]-5[2])what (10[2])concept? (10[3])■END■ (10[18]0[19])

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