Caroline B. Dow offered to pay for this author’s education at Vassar. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author who described how “All I could see from where I stood / Was three long mountains and a wood” in her poem “Renascence.”
ANSWER: Edna St. Vincent Millay
[10h] The speaker of “Renascence” describes how this concept “Came down and settled over me” after she screams. This concept is held “in the palm of your hand” in a William Blake poem.
ANSWER: infinity [or word forms like the Infinite]
[10e] While Millay described “three long mountains and a wood” in “Renascence,” this author began his poem “The Road Not Taken” by stating “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood.”
ANSWER: Robert Frost
<Yingzhi Nyang, Literature - American - Poetry> ~19862~ <Editor: Chandler West>