A poem by this author describes a group riding “into the jaws of Death.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this poet, who used the line “half a league, half a league, half a league onward” to open his “Charge of the Light Brigade.”
ANSWER: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
[10m] Tennyson titled another poem for this character, in which he vows “to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” George Chapman translated a poem titled for this character who encounters the lotus-eaters.
ANSWER: Ulysses [or Odysseus]
[10h] This poem by Tennyson was often a companion piece to “Ulysses.” A description of how the “woods decay and fall” begins this poem, whose speaker states “after many a summer dies the swan.”
ANSWER: “Tithonus”
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