Reading "Gate C22" Ellen Bass
-Although people could not help watching the couple embrace at the airport in the Ellen Bass's poem "Gate C22," they were embarrassed at the public display of affection.

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In Ellen Bass's poem "Gate C22," the onlookers are not embarrassed by the couple's public display of affection; instead, they are captivated and moved by it, with the poem describing how the onlookers stop to watch and are touched by the scene, even clapping when the couple finally parts.