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