Question

A contributor to this poem joked that he had performed a “Caesarean Operation” on its author in the poem “Sage Homme.” This poem’s author scrapped a stanza about “white-armed Fresca” in favor (15[1])of one that borrows from Spenser’s (15[1])Prothalamion (15[2])by asking a river to “run softly (15[1])till I end my song.” (15[2])A draft of this poem (15[1])shows the addition of the line, “Marie, hold on tight,” (15[3])and reveals (15[1])its Dickens-inspired (15[2])working (15[1])title, (*) He Do the Police (10[2])in (10[1])Different Voices. (10[2])A poet who insisted on the (-5[1])importance of a “Phoenician, a fortnight (10[1])dead” (10[2])in this poem (10[2])was credited in its dedication as “il miglior fabbro.” (-5[1])A description of a time period “breeding lilacs out of (10[1])the dead land” (10[1])opens “The Burial of the Dead,” (10[1]-5[1])the first section of this Ezra Pound-edited poem. For 10 points, name this long Modernist poem (10[1]-5[1])by T. S. Eliot. (10[4])■END■ (10[5])

ANSWER: The Waste Land
<HG, British Literature>
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