Question

This is the second title quality of a man in a poem that repeats the line “Daybreak and a candle-end.” In a poem containing this quality in its title that was based on a Pierre de Ronsard sonnet, the speaker notes how “Love fled… and hid his face amid a crowd of stars.” A line about people with this quality is followed by one about people without this quality (15[1])“in one another’s arms, birds in the trees.” The speaker of one poem notes how unless a (*) “soul clap its hands and sing,” a person with this quality is like “a tattered coat upon a stick.” (10[1])A line about people with this quality was used to title a novel about Llewellyn Moss and Anton Chigurh (“Shi-gurr”) by Cormac McCarthy. For 10 points, the opening line of W.B. Yeats’ poem “Sailing to Byzantium” states, “That is no country for” (10[1])what (10[1])sort of men? ■END■

ANSWER: being old [or aged; accept “The Wild Old Wicked Man”; accept “When You Are Old”; accept “that is no country for old men”]
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