This poem features early instances of its author’s experiments with typography, such as the capitalization of words like “MEMORIES” and “RENDER.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this poem whose speaker envisions Venus walking on the “lava-flesh” of Mount Etna. The speaker of this poem wakes up from a nap and proclaims he would “perpetuate” two nymphs.
ANSWER: “Afternoon of a Faun” [or “L'Après-Midi d’un Faune”]
[10e] The “Afternoon of a Faun” was written by this difficult French poet of “A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance.”
ANSWER: Stéphane Mallarmé
[10h] Several Mallarmé poems, such as “Another Fan,” are imaginative odes to these objects. Mallarmé’s poem “Sea Breeze” opens, “The flesh is sad, alas!” before expressing regret about these objects.
ANSWER: books [or livres]
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