In a stanza referencing these objects, the speaker grieves for sons who “felt some portion of their mother’s pains, / And never knew, till then, the weight of Despot’s chains.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these objects. The speaker laments, “My spirit is too weak,” and likens themselves to “a sick eagle looking at the sky” in a John Keats sonnet “On Seeing [these objects].”
ANSWER: the Elgin Marbles [accept “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles”]
[10e] The speaker decries how England displaced “Athena’s poor remains” in a line from this Lord Byron narrative poem dedicated to “Ianthe.” It chronicles the title young man’s wanderings through Europe.
ANSWER: Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
[10h] This poet argued the removal of Grecian artifacts will “illume the west” in the long poem “Modern Greece.” Noël Coward parodied this author’s poem “The Homes of England,” which originated the use of the term “stately home” to describe country houses.
ANSWER: Felicia Hemans [or Felicia Dorothea Hemans or Felicia Dorothea Browne]
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