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In a poem by this author, the “faces of beasts” cause humans who “set traps for freedom” to see the “unobstructed world.” This poet described an image that “plunges into the heart and is gone” (20[2])in a poem about an animal with a “paralyzed” will making a “ritual (20[1])dance” in “cramped circles.” (20[1])This poet described an object that glistens like a “wild beast’s fur” and has “a legendary head / with eyes like (*) ripening fruit.” In a poem by this author, “no world” exists behind the “constantly passing bars” of a panther in a cage. “Sly animals” are mentioned in the first poem of a 1923 collection by this author that declares “Every angel is terror” and opens “Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the Angelic Orders?” For 10 points, name this poet of the Duino Elegies. ■END■

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