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A disastrous sexual encounter with this person inspired a poem whose three stanzas begin respectively with the words “tired,” “tortured,” and “tortuous.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Who is called a “succuba eviscerate” in the suppressed poem “Ode”? One of this person’s mental breakdowns is the subject of a prose poem that compares their “teeth” to “accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill.”
ANSWER: Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot [or Vivienne Haigh-Wood; prompt on Eliot; prompt on answers describing Thomas Stearns Eliot’s first wife] (The prose poem is “Hysteria.”)
[10m] In “Ode,” Eliot describes “silence from” this metaphorical place as “synchronous” with “subterrene laughter.” A collection of Eliot essays titled for this place includes “Hamlet and His Problems.”
ANSWER: the sacred wood [prompt on partial answer]
[10e] The epigraph to “Ode” is from this play, which Eliot claims is “Shakespeare’s most assured artistic success” in “Hamlet and His Problems.” This play’s title general allies with Tullus Aufidius and the Volscians against Rome.
ANSWER: Coriolanus [or The Tragedy of Coriolanus]
<Arya Karthik, British Literature>

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