Question

The speaker of a poem in this form claims, “the shore gleams in its natural stones / and birds sing sweetest without any art” in order to extol nakedness. A yellowed reproduction of a poem in this form begins the accordion poem Nox. (-5[1])A torrid love (15[1])affair is described (15[1])in a (15[1])set of six poems (-5[1])in this form thought to be written (-5[1])by a “daughter of Servius,” known as the “garland of Sulpicia.” A line in this form notes, (15[1])“my work rises in six beats, sinks in (*) five,” referring to this form’s pairing of dactylic hexameter (10[1])and pentameter. (-5[2])A woman named Cynthia (10[1])is the addressee of the first (-5[1])of four books of poetry in this form by Sextus (-5[1])Propertius. (-5[2])A Catullus poem using this (-5[1])form’s namesake couplets and addressed to the (10[1])poet’s brother (10[1])ends, (-5[1])“hail and farewell.” For 10 points, name this poetic form now used to mourn the dead. (10[2])■END■ (10[20]0[3])

ANSWER: elegy [or elegia; or elegiac form; accept elegiac couplets] (Nox is by Anne Carson; the line in the fourth sentence is from Ovid’s Amores.)
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