In a poem by this author, an “unfortunate lover” is glorified as “betwixt the flames and waves,” thereby becoming the stuff of “story.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this poet, who encouraged behaving like “amorous birds of prey” in “To His Coy Mistress.”
ANSWER: Andrew Marvell
[10m] In “To His Coy Mistress,” the speaker aims to “devour” this concept instead of languishing in its “slow-chapped power.” The poem also describes this concept’s “wingèd chariot hurrying near.”
ANSWER: time [accept “Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near”]
[10h] In a Marvell poem set in one of these places, the “industrious bee / Computes its time as well as we.” In this place, the mind “annihilate[s] all that’s made” in a “delicious solitude.”
ANSWER: gardens [accept “The Garden”]
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