Two answers required. A poem set between these two cities calls Minerva a “miscarriage of the brain” and reflects on how each of the title mountains is like a “fire-branded socket of the Cyclops’s eye.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these two cities. Robert Lowell’s Life Studies opens with a poem about a train ride between these cities, one of which is described as “our black classic, breaking up / like killer kings on an Etruscan cup.”
ANSWER: Paris AND Rome [accept answers in either order; accept Roma in place of “Rome”] (The poem is “Beyond the Alps.”)
[10m] This Sylvia Plath poem calls the title city a “morgue between Paris and Rome.” This poem opens by stating, “Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.”
ANSWER: “The Munich Mannequins”
[10e] This author described a person “walking in Paris alone inside a crowd” and “in Rome beneath a Japanese tree” in his poem “Zone.” This French proto-Surrealist wrote the collection Alcools (“al-KOHLS”).
ANSWER: Guillaume Apollinaire (“ah-poh-lee-NAIR”) [or Wilhelm-Albert-Włodzimierz-Aleksander-Apolinary Kostrowicki]
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