Question

In a Thomas Kinsella poem titled for one of these objects, the speaker feels a chattering “at my ear” upon visiting his grandmother’s deathbed. The narrator notes parenthetically that he heard some of these objects in the last line of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s “The Blessed Damozel.” These objects title a poem that mentions periods “Dear (10[1])as remember’d kisses after death.” In the last stanza of Dylan Thomas’s “Do not go gentle into that good night,” the speaker asks his father to “curse, (10[1])bless, me now” with “fierce” objects of this type. (10[1])In a poem excerpted from the longer poem The Princess, the speaker says “I know not what [these objects] mean” before repeatedly invoking “the days that are no more.” For 10 points, name these objects that are “idle” in the title (10[2]-5[1])of a mournful Tennyson poem. ■END■ (0[4])

ANSWER: tears [or teardrops; accept “Tears, Idle Tears”]
<Waterloo B, British Literature>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
William OrrYale AGeorge Washington A5410
Richard NiuCornell BVassar A8110
Hrishit ChaudhuriNYU BHaverford A9010
Jerry VinokurovJohn Jay CollegePenn A13110
Eshan PantNYU AMaryland B13110
Derek ChenColumbia CJohns Hopkins A131-5
Noah ChenColumbia BGeorge Washington B1370
Isaac MammelMaryland AHaverford B1370
Sinecio MoralesJohns Hopkins AColumbia C1370
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