This poem’s fandom is evidenced by Edward Taylor’s “Funeral Poem” for his wife Elizabeth, in which he recalls how this poem’s lines “much perfumed her breath.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this 224 stanza poem written in common meter “fourteeners.” This colonial sleeper hit was the masterpiece of Michael Wigglesworth.
ANSWER: The Day of Doom [accept Doomsday Verses if Edward Taylor is in attendance] (The full title of Taylor’s poem is “A Funeral Poem Upon the Death of My Ever Endeared and Tender Wife.”)
[10e] Taylor and a contemporary “Bay” book used Wigglesworthian “common meter” in their metrical adaptations of the 150 hymns from this Biblical book attributed to King David.
ANSWER: the Book of Psalms [or the Psalter; or Tehillim; accept Bay Psalm Book]
[10m] In a twist on a Day of Doom image, this poem depicts saints “to windows run” to see its speaker “leaning against the – Sun.” In this Emily Dickinson poem, the speaker states “Inebriate of air – am I – / And Debauchee of Dew.”
ANSWER: “I taste a liquor never brewed” [or poem 207; or poem 214]
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