When God tries to teach this character to say the word “love,” he instead produces “Man’s bodiless prodigious head” and “woman’s vulva,” which then become locked in a death struggle. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this character whose “First Lesson” and “Account of the Battle” are described in poems from a collection illustrated by Leonard Baskin in which he journeys through the universe in search of his female creator.
ANSWER: Crow [accept “Crow’s First Lesson”; accept “Crow’s Account of the Battle”; reject “bird” or “corvid” or “raven”]
[10e] Crow was created by this poet, whose collection Birthday Letters dramatizes his marriage to Sylvia Plath.
ANSWER: Ted Hughes [or Edward James Hughes]
[10m] This other Hughes poem describes a bird whose “wings hold all creation in a weightless quiet” and which “hangs still” before becoming trapped by the horizon in the last stanza.
ANSWER: “The Hawk in the Rain”
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