A “Choric Song” within this poem claims "Hateful is the dark-blue sky, / Vaulted o'er the dark-blue sea./ Death is the end of life; ah, why / Should life all labour be?" For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this poem, whose title characters conclude, “O, rest ye, brother mariners, we will not wander more.” This poem’s “mild-eyed melancholy” title characters repeat “Let us alone.”
ANSWER: “The Lotos-Eaters”
[10m] In this poem by the author of “The Lotos-Eaters,” the speaker yearns “to follow knowledge like a sinking star” and resolves “to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield” as he looks at a “vessel puff[ing] her sail.”
ANSWER: “Ulysses” [reject “Odysseus”]
[10e] “Ulysses” and “The Lotos-Eaters” was written by this poet who described some heroic horsemen in “The Charge of the Light Brigade.”
ANSWER: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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