In one poem, the speaker compares this person to the planet Venus by describing him as “O comrade lustrous with silver face in the night.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this person who is eulogized in a poem in which the narrator follows a “western orb sailing the heaven.”
ANSWER: Abraham Lincoln
[10e] This poet wrote “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” after the death of President Lincoln. He also included “Song of Myself” in Leaves of Grass.
ANSWER: Walt Whitman [or Walter Whitman Jr.]
[10h] This other poet memorialized Lincoln by writing that he “perished in the cause of Right” in his poem “The Death of Lincoln.” This author also wrote “Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again” in “The Battle-Field.”
ANSWER: William Cullen Bryant
<Cambridge B, American Literature>