Question
This poet notes, “then the sneezes got up to go” after describing “burghers” who “become aware / that their time is passing too” in an ekphrasis on a Johannes Vermeer painting. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this poet who included “View of Delft” in his collection Chinese Whispers. Another ekphrastic poem by this author begins by describing “the right hand / bigger than the head.”
ANSWER: John Ashbery (The other poem is “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.”)
[10e] Ashbery named as his greatest influence this poet, who mused on Homeric ekphrasis in his poem “The Shield of Achilles.” This poet also wrote “Musée des Beaux Arts.”
ANSWER: W. H. Auden [or Wystan Hugh Auden]
[10h] The title poem of Chinese Whispers laments that these “barren” objects “have been described more than once.” These objects title Ashbery’s first poetry collection, which Auden awarded the Yale Younger Poets Prize despite not understanding it.
ANSWER: trees [accept Some Trees]
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