Question
A poem by this author praises the “awful kind” title character, who “milks the cow fer ‘Lizabuth Ann.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this “Hoosier poet” from Indiana who often employed dialect in poems like “Little Orphant Annie” and “The Raggedy Man.”
ANSWER: James Whitcomb Riley
[10h] A Riley poem complains how one of these animals “Wears out his welcome too quick fer me.” In another poem, one of these animals is “born to sip the lake or spring” and takes their “seat in Charon’s boat.”
ANSWER: bees [accept bumblebees or honeybees; prompt on insects] (The poems are “The Bumblebee” and Philip Freneau’s “On a Honey Bee.”)
[10e] Like Riley, this poet from nearby Illinois got his start from performing poetry on tour. This pioneer of “singing poetry” wrote “The Congo” and “General William Booth Enters into Heaven.”
ANSWER: Vachel Lindsay [or Nicholas Vachel Lindsay]
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