Question

Olwyn, the sister-in-law of a woman born to this family, described a “myth” of this family perpetuated by the epistle collection Letters Home. A poem recalls a woman in this family helping her children sing, “Thor is angry; boom boom boom!” during a hurricane. A poem addressed to a man from this family is titled for a god created via Ouija board and describes him as “pithy and historical as the Roman Forum.” A (10[1])member of this family is told, “no frown of mine (10[1])/ will betray the company I keep” in a poem inspired by a Giorgio de Chirico painting, “The Disquieting Muses.” The speaker tells a man in this family, “I thought every German was you” (10[1])in a poem that imagines him (10[2])as “a man in black with a Meinkampf look.” (10[2])For 10 points, (10[1])what family’s patriarch Otto titles his daughter’s poem “Daddy”? ■END■

ANSWER: Plath family [or the Plaths; accept family of Sylvia Plath] (The poem in the third sentence is “The Colossus.”)
<Chicago B, American Literature>
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