Question

In a Thomas Kinsella poem titled for one of these objects, the speaker feels a chattering “at my ear” upon visiting his grandmother’s deathbed. The narrator (-5[1])notes parenthetically that he heard some of these objects in the last line of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s “The Blessed Damozel.” (-5[1])These objects title a poem that mentions periods “Dear (10[1])as remember’d kisses after death.” In the last stanza of Dylan Thomas’s “Do not go (-5[1])gentle into that good night,” (-5[1])the speaker asks his father to “curse, (10[2])bless, (-5[1])me now” (10[2])with (10[1])“fierce” objects (10[3])of (10[1])this type. (10[2]-5[3])In a poem excerpted (10[1]-5[1])from the (10[1])longer poem (10[1])The Princess, the speaker says “I know not what [these objects] mean” before repeatedly invoking (-5[1])“the days that are no more.” (10[1])For 10 points, name these objects that are “idle” (10[1])in the title (10[2]-5[1])of a mournful (10[1]-5[2])Tennyson poem. (10[2])■END■ (10[4]0[35])

ANSWER: tears [or teardrops; accept “Tears, Idle Tears”]
<Waterloo B, British Literature>
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Summary

California2025-02-01Y367%0%33%111.50
Florida2025-02-01Y20%0%50%0.00
Great Lakes2025-02-01Y667%0%33%125.50
Midwest2025-02-01Y667%0%50%99.00
North2025-02-01Y333%0%33%81.00
Northeast2025-02-01Y425%0%25%87.00
Overflow2025-02-01Y333%0%33%98.00
South Central2025-02-01Y2100%0%0%110.50
Southeast2025-02-01Y450%0%25%132.00
UK2025-02-01Y850%0%13%97.50
Upper Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01Y863%0%13%97.40
Upstate NY2025-02-01Y30%0%0%0.00

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