Question

In “The Rhodora” (“roh-DOR-uh”), Ralph Waldo Emerson stated that “beauty is its own excuse for” this specific action. (20[4])The last stanza of Archibald (20[1])MacLeish’s poem “Ars Poetica” claims (20[1])that poems “should not mean, but” (20[2])do (20[1])this action. (20[1])In “The Emperor of Ice Cream,” Wallace Stevens asks to allow this action to act as “finale of seem.” (20[1])This verb (20[1])occurs (0[1])in the usual (20[1])title of a passage that mentions “the (20[1])(*) undiscovered country, from whose bourn no traveller returns.” In that speech whose usual title contains this verb, the speaker wonders if keeping his “mortal coil” is worth suffering (10[2])“the slings (10[1])and arrows (10[1])of outrageous fortune.” For 10 points, (10[2])name this (10[2])short verb which the protagonist ponders (10[1])whether to do (10[3]0[1])or not (10[2])to do (10[2])in (10[1])Hamlet. (10[2]0[1])■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: be [or being or to be; accept “To be or not to be”; reject other word forms like "am" or "is" or "are"]
<Chauncey Lo, Literature - World and Miscellaneous&gt; ~21086~ &lt;Editor: Joseph Krol>
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