Question

In one poem, this author references “two angora guinea pigs” he inherited from his cousin Harriet along with a house in Castine. In another poem, this poet describes his five-year old self dressed as a “stuffed toucan” visiting his dying grandfather. This poet commands “ask for no Orphean lute / To pluck life back” after describing a corpse whose “open, staring eyes / Were lustreless dead-lights.” This poet, who wrote about his “Last Afternoon” with his uncle Devereux (-5[1])(“DEV-er-row”), exclaims “Clamavimus, O depths,” in a poem that ends by declaring, “The (*) Lord survives the rainbow of his will.” That poem, which this author dedicated to “Warren Winslow, dead at sea,” (10[1])includes a section titled “Our Lady of Walsingham” and repeatedly alludes to Moby-Dick with descriptions of whaling. For 10 points, name this confessional poet of “The Quaker Graveyard (10[1])in Nantucket.” (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Robert Lowell [or Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV] (The first poem is “Fourth of July in Maine.” The second poem is “My Last Afternoon With Uncle Devereux Winslow.” The theme is poems by Robert Lowell mourning relatives from the Winslow family.)
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Jason RohfritschRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan QuizbowlersYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit77-5
Adrian WongThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork OrangeTensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken10810
Henry AtkinsCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole countryas rational as the square root of two power bottoms13610
Kane NguyenI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere13810
Tony ChenSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of DonutModerator Can't Neg me While in Alpha13910
Jared HeYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruitRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers13910

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