A poem titled for a “Journey to” a city in this country calls it a “country of bone” and ends by calling for “Rain from the red cloud.” Another poem about this country, which compares events in its past like “the abolition of fairies and giants” to “the shared cigarette” and “cards in the candlelit barn” of the present, states, “The stars are dead. The animals will not look.” A collection about this country features poems written by Sylvia Townsend Warner while serving with the Red Cross; Stephen Spender edited that collection, which includes a W. H. Auden poem that repeats, “to-day the struggle.” The author of a memoir about this country recounts being shot in the neck by a sniper and failing to free Georges Kopp from prison before escaping the suppression of its Communist POUM (“pohm”) militia. For 10 points, what country’s civil war is the subject of George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia? ■END■
ANSWER: Spain [or España; or Kingdom of Spain, Reino de España, Regne d’Espanya, or Espainiako Erresuma; accept Spanish Civil War or Guerra Civil Española; accept (Second) Spanish Republic or (Segunda) República Española; prompt on Catalonia until read] (The first poem is Sylvia Townsend Warner’s “Journey to Barcelona.”)
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