Question

In one poem, this author references “two angora guinea pigs” he inherited from his cousin Harriet along with a house in Castine. In another poem, this poet describes his five-year old self dressed as a “stuffed toucan” visiting his dying grandfather. This poet commands “ask for no Orphean lute / To pluck (15[2])life (15[1])back” after describing a corpse whose “open, staring eyes / Were lustreless dead-lights.” (-5[1])This poet, who wrote about his “Last Afternoon” with his uncle (15[1])Devereux (15[2]-5[1])(“DEV-er-row”), exclaims “Clamavimus, O depths,” in a poem that ends by declaring, “The (*) Lord survives the rainbow of his will.” That poem, which this author dedicated to “Warren Winslow, dead at sea,” (10[1])includes a section titled “Our Lady of Walsingham” (10[1])and repeatedly alludes to Moby-Dick (10[1])with descriptions of whaling. For 10 points, name this confessional poet (10[1])of “The Quaker Graveyard (10[1])in Nantucket.” (10[2])■END■ (10[3]0[3])

ANSWER: Robert Lowell [or Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV] (The first poem is “Fourth of July in Maine.” The second poem is “My Last Afternoon With Uncle Devereux Winslow.” The theme is poems by Robert Lowell mourning relatives from the Winslow family.)
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