When poked and stirred, the speaker of this poem is found to contain “A cake of soap, / A wedding ring,” and “A gold filling.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this poem, in which “a smiling woman” who is “only thirty,” proclaims “I rise with my red hair and / I eat men like air.”
ANSWER: “Lady Lazarus”
[10e] This author of “Lady Lazarus” described “a man in black with a Meinkampf look” in the poem “Daddy.”
ANSWER: Sylvia Plath
[10h] Ten years after Plath’s death, Robin Morgan accused this man of “the murder of Sylvia Plath” in the poem “Arraignment.” This author’s poem “The Thought-Fox” appears in his collection The Hawk in the Rain.
ANSWER: Ted Hughes [or Edward James Hughes]
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