In Memoriam A. H. H. - Lower Mid-Atlantic

Question

In The Nutmeg’s Curse, Amitav Ghosh writes that this poem “reinforced a belief in the absolute exceptionalism and supremacy of one kind of human – White, Western Man.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this poem which claims “at the last arose the man; / Who throve and branch’d from clime to clime, / The herald of a higher race” in Canto 118. This poem also describes how nature “shriek’d against his creed.”

ANSWER: In Memoriam A. H. H.

[10e] This author wrote about the advent of man in In Memoriam. He also wrote “The Charge of the Light Brigade.”

ANSWER: Alfred, Lord Tennyson

[10m] In In Memoriam, Tennyson writes that man must work “out the beast, / and let the ape and [this animal] die.” In a different poem, the narrator asks this animal “What the hammer? what the chain, / In what furnace was thy brain?”

ANSWER: tiger [accept “The Tyger”]

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