While defending his love, the speaker of this poem asks “What merchant’s ships have my sighs drowned?” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this poem which declares “we’ll build in sonnets pretty rooms; / as well a well-wrought urn becomes / the greatest ashes.”
ANSWER: “The Canonization” (by John Donne)
[10h] Cleanth Brooks argued that the only way John Donne (“dun”) could have said what “The Canonization” says is through this concept. The first chapter of Brooks’s The Well Wrought Urn states that “the language of poetry is the language of [this concept].”
ANSWER: paradox [reject “contradiction”]
[10e] In “The Language of Paradox,” Brooks finds paradoxes even in the “apparently simple and straightforward” verse of this poet, who wrote “Tintern Abbey.”
ANSWER: William Wordsworth
<Albert Nyang, British Literature>