In one poem, this author apologizes for eating plums that were “so sweet / and so cold.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this poet of “This is Just to Say.” This poet described an object “glazed with rain / water,” upon which “so much depends,” in “The Red Wheelbarrow.”
ANSWER: William Carlos Williams
[10m] Williams was a member of this modernist poetic movement founded by Ezra Pound. H.D. helped compile three statements of this movement, which emphasized the use of direct and precise language.
ANSWER: Imagism [accept word forms such as Imagiste poetry]
[10h] H. D. titled the sequel to her novel HERmione after one of these flowers. In a poem titled for this “Greeny Flower,” Williams describes learning “there were flowers also in hell.”
ANSWER: asphodels [accept “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower”]
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