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This poem reflects on “a century of history” marked by “dehydrated Naiads, Dryad amputees / dragging themselves through slagscapes with no trees.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this poem whose speaker compares his age of 42 to the age at which the title poet died. In this poem, Tony Harrison states that “life has a skin of death that keeps its zest” in offering a fruit to a Romantic poet.
ANSWER: “A Kumquat for John Keats”
[10e] “A Kumquat for John Keats” calls the atom bomb a thing that “ravishes all silence, and all odes” in reference to a Keats poem that calls this title object a “foster-child of silence and slow time.”
ANSWER: Grecian urn [accept vases or vessels or equivalents; accept “Ode on a Grecian Urn”]
[10m] Harrison’s poem invokes Keats’s knowledge of “candied apple, quince and plum and gourd” by quoting this poem, in which Porphyro lays those fruits out for a woman as she sleeps.
ANSWER: “The Eve of St. Agnes”
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