This poet concluded that gravestones might “believe the lie” that “men hate to die / and have stopped dying now forever” at the end of his poem “In a Disused Graveyard.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this New England poet whose poems about death include “The Death of the Hired Man,” “Out, Out—,” and “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”
ANSWER: Robert Frost [or Robert Lee Frost]
[10m] In this Frost poem, a man sees a graveyard “so small the window frames the whole of it” during an icy conversation with his wife. This poem is titled for the event that the couple has recently held for their dead son.
ANSWER: “Home Burial”
[10h] Frost’s own gravestone mentions one of these conflicts, which subtitles Shirley Clarke’s documentary about him. Frost’s poem “The Lesson for Today” ends by stating that he had one of these conflicts “with the world.”
ANSWER: lover’s quarrel [accept “I had a lover’s quarrel with the world”; prompt on quarrels]
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