Question
In a poem titled for this phrase, “28 reporters and an essayist” write up an animal “imported at great expense from / Kuala Lumpur” who is “indifferent to beauty or brutality.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Give this two-word phrase. A 1794 poem’s opening stanza asks, “What immortal hand or eye, / Could frame thy [this two-word phrase]?”
ANSWER: “fearful symmetry” (The poem is William Blake’s “The Tyger.”)
[10e] This poet wondered if any tiger could “drink martinis ... as we do” in the haiku “Symmetries and Asymmetries.” This poet also wrote “September 1, 1939.”
ANSWER: W. H. Auden [or Wystan Hugh Auden]
[10h] This contemporary of Auden described the “profitable likeness” of a tiger in the poem “Fearful Symmetry.” This poet wrote a long autobiographical poem about Northumbria titled Briggflatts.
ANSWER: Basil Bunting [or Basil Cheesman Bunting]
<CM, British Literature>
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