A Patricia Hampl essay for The Paris Review reads “not a smug ha ha but an exultant aha!” into this line, which comes after “The droppings of last year’s horses / Blaze up into golden stones.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Give this full sentence that concludes the poem “Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota.”
ANSWER: “I have wasted my life.”
[10e] Hammock-user James Wright is associated with a school named for a “deep” form of this concept. Ezra Pound and H.D. were major poets in an earlier school named for this concept, which favored precision of language.
ANSWER: image [or imagery; accept “deep image” or Imagism]
[10h] This deep image poet of The Lice wrote collections like The Rain in the Trees while living in a palm sanctuary on Maui. After winning a Pulitzer for The Carrier of Ladders, this poet donated the prize money to help draft dodgers.
ANSWER: W. S. Merwin [or William Stanley Merwin]
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