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In one poem, the speaker likens this person’s words to “shooting stars which fell to Earth as kisses” after calling an heirloom “a spinning world of forests, castles, torchlight, [and] clifftops.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this person who, in a John Milton poem, is addressed as a “son of Memory” that lies under a “star-ypointing pyramid.”
ANSWER: William Shakespeare [or “On Shakespeare, 1630”] (The poems are “Anne Hathaway” by Carol Ann Duffy, and “On Shakespeare, 1630” by John Milton.)
[10m] In “Anne Hathaway,” Carol Ann Duffy likens Hathaway and Shakespeare’s marriage bed to “seas where he would dive for pearls,” potentially alluding to a song which this character sings. This spirit sings “Full Fathom Five.”
ANSWER: Ariel
[10e] In response to the censorship of one of her poems, Duffy wrote “Mrs. Schofield’s GCSE,” in which she references this Shakespeare play about “star-cross’d lovers” with a line about “Tybalt’s death.”
ANSWER: Romeo and Juliet
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