The speaker reflects that “now my heart is sore” after seeing these “brilliant creatures.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these animals, of which the speaker sees “nine-and-fifty” in that poem. In a poem partly titled for these animals, the speaker imagines “The broken wall, the burning roof and tower” engendered by one of these animals.
ANSWER: swans [accept “The Wild Swans at Coole”; accept “Leda and the Swan”; prompt on birds]
[10e] “The Wild Swans at Coole” and “Leda and the Swan” are by this Irish poet who also wrote “The Second Coming” and “Sailing to Byzantium.”
ANSWER: William Butler Yeats
[10h] This poet described a swan “Like a cake / Of soap” who has “abandoned hope” in the poem “The Bereaved Swan.” This poet’s best-known poem opens, “Nobody heard him, the dead man” and claims “I was much too far out all my life.”
ANSWER: Stevie Smith [or Florence Margaret Smith] (The poem is “Not Waving but Drowning.”)
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