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This poem’s fandom is evidenced by a contemporary poet’s “Funeral Poem” for his wife Elizabeth, in which he recalls how this poem’s lines “much perfumed her breath.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this 224 stanza poem written in common meter “fourteeners” by a Puritan preacher, which ends with the lines, “Meanwhile my soul shall enter into Peace, / Where Fears and Tears, where Sin and Smart shall cease.”
ANSWER: The Day of Doom [or The Day of Doom: or, A Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgment; accept Doomsday Verses] (The Day of Doom is by Michael Wigglesworth. The first poem is Edward Taylor’s “A Funeral Poem Upon the Death of My Ever Endeared and Tender Wife.”)
[10e] Edward Taylor and a contemporary colonial American “Bay” book used Wigglesworthian “common meter” in their metrical adaptations of the hymns from this Biblical book attributed to King David.
ANSWER: the Book of Psalms [or the Psalter; or Tehillim; accept Bay Psalm Book]
[10m] Echoing an image from The Day of Doom, this poem depicts “Saints – to windows run,” to see its speaker “leaning against the – Sun.” In this poem, the speaker states, “Inebriate of air – am I – / And Debauchee of Dew.”
ANSWER: I taste a liquor never brewed” [or poem 207; or poem 214] (by Emily Dickinson)
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