Question

A poem by this author describes “Helen’s public fault” before stating that all women “have Helen in their hearts.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this modernist poet who described an object that “so much depends / upon” in “The Red Wheelbarrow.”
ANSWER: William Carlos Williams
[10m] Williams describes this title object of another poem as “forebodingly” present in a “good collection.” In that poem, this title object is found in hell and compared to a “buttercup upon its branching stem / save that it’s green and wooden.”
ANSWER: asphodel [accept “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower”; prompt on flowers or greeny flowers]
[10h] The lines of “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower” are arranged in this technique created by Williams. This poetic device sees longer lines separated into three parts that descend down the page and appear in three columns.
ANSWER: triadic-line [or stepped line; accept variable foot]
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