Question

The speaker asks if it was “So very hard to die” in a poem in which this figure is asked to stand “Flame-capped, and shout for me,” titled for this figure “in the Trench.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this mythological figure whose mother “of the shining breasts / Cried out in dismay” in a W. H. Auden poem about his shield. This man kills Hector in The Iliad.
ANSWER: Achilles [accept “Achilles in the Trench” or “The Shield of Achilles”]
[10m] The title man “survives among hills” while “the dust of Achilles and Cuchulain itches” in this author’s poem “Dick Straightup.” This poet described a “hot stink of fox” in “The Thought-Fox,” part of the collection The Hawk in the Rain.
ANSWER: Ted Hughes [or Edward James Hughes]
[10h] This poet mythologized David Beckham as Achilles in a poem about Beckham’s Achilles tendon injury. Famous men’s female counterparts narrate several dramatic monologues in this poet’s collection The World’s Wife.
ANSWER: Carol Ann Duffy
<CM, British Literature>

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