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The experience described in this poem also closes the autobiographical story “The Country Mouse,” whose narrator wonders, “Why was I a human being?” This poem’s speaker perceives the title location to be “sliding / beneath a big black wave, / another, (10[1])and another” and attributes an “oh! of pain” to a “foolish, timid woman” before realizing “that it was me: / my voice, in my mouth.” That speaker tells herself she will be seven in three days to stop “the sensation of falling off / the round, turning world.” In this poem from Geography III set (10[1])in Worcester (10[1]-5[1])(“WUST-er”), Massachusetts, in 1918, the speaker sees photos (-5[1])of “the (10[1])inside of a volcano (10[1])/ black, and full of ashes,” and of “black, naked women” whose (10[1])“awful (10[1])hanging (10[1])breasts” horrify her. For 10 points, the speaker joins Aunt Consuelo (10[1])at the dentist’s office (-5[1])and reads (10[1])National Geographic (10[1])in what poem by Elizabeth Bishop? ■END■ (10[1]0[17])

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