Question
In The Number and The Siren, Quentin Meillassoux argues that the “unique number” in a poem by this author is 707, which he also found to be the number of words in that poem. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this poet, who described the “eternal circumstances / from the depths of a shipwreck” in his typographically unorthodox poem “A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance.”
ANSWER: Stéphane Mallarmé
[10e] Mallarmé used multiples of seven lines in his sonnets memorializing other French poets, such as his sonnet on the tomb of this author of Les Fleurs du Mal.
ANSWER: Charles Baudelaire
[10h] The speaker alludes to the Pleiades as a “septet of scintillations” in a Mallarmé sonnet beginning “her pure fingernails...,” also known as his “Sonnet in” this sound, because six of its lines end in this sound.
ANSWER: “-yx” (“eeks”) [accept “X” (“eks” or “ks”)]
<HG, European Literature>
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