In John Dos Passos’s novel Three Soldiers, Andrews thinks of a poem about this man after faking his identity and briefly titles a song about him “Arbeit und Rhythmus.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Julia Ward Howe adopted a soldiers’ song about what man into “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”? That pro-abolition song claims that this man’s “soul is marching on” even as his body “lies a-mouldering in the grave.”
ANSWER: John Brown
[10m] This author depicted the Civil War in his 1928 epic poem John Brown’s Body. The line “bury my heart at Wounded Knee” comes from this author’s poem “American Names.”
ANSWER: Stephen Vincent Benét
[10h] This author depicted John Brown “hanging from the beam, slowly swaying” in the poem “The Portent.” A poem [emphasize] about this author claims that he saw “the dice of drowned men’s bones… bequeath an embassy.”
ANSWER: Herman Melville [accept “At Melville’s Tomb” (by Hart Crane)]
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