The speaker of this poem says, “Why should I share you? Why don’t you get rid of someone else for a change?” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this poem by the author of Lunch Poems, Frank O’Hara, which opens, “Am I to become profligate as if I were a blonde?” This poem titles a 1957 O’Hara collection.
ANSWER: “Meditations in an Emergency”
[10e] “Meditations in an Emergency” was originally titled in reference to Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions by this author. This Metaphysical poet wrote the Holy Sonnets.
ANSWER: John Donne (The poem was originally titled “Meditations on Re-emergent Occasions.”)
[10m] In an O’Hara poem titled for one of these objects, the speaker says, “I want to be at least as alive as the vulgar.” In the first line of Holy Sonnet XIV (“14”), the speaker makes a request to "three-person'd God" about one of these objects.
ANSWER: heart [accept “My Heart” or “Batter my heart, three-person’d God”]
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