A poem set in this country asks a series of questions about a ship’s figurehead, such as “Did the blue afterwards wear away?” and “Did her eyes slant in the old way?” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this country that titles a long feminist poem divided into the sections “Palinode,” “Leuké,” and “Eidolon.” It ends with the protagonist having Achilles’s son in this country.
ANSWER: Egypt [or Miṣr; or Arab Republic of Egypt; or Jumhūrīyat Miṣr al-ʻArabīyah; accept Helen in Egypt] (H.D. wrote Helen in Egypt.)
[10e] The speaker imagines Egyptian kings whose “will was not to die” in a sonnet by this poet, who sees “three long mountains and a wood” in her poem “Renascence” (“ruh-NAY-sense”).
ANSWER: Edna St. Vincent Millay [or Nancy Boyd]
[10h] This poem’s many allusions to ancient Egypt include a reference to the weighing of the heart. This documentary poem sequence by Muriel Rukeyser chronicles the Hawk’s Nest mining disaster in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia.
ANSWER: The Book of the Dead
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