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1. 'There shall be In that rich earth a richer earth {concealed;} A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware.' Who was the author of these idealistic lines on death-in-war?
2. What is the title of the famous poem from which these lines were taken: 'What passing bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons.' ?
3. 'Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo ... I am the {grass;} I cover all. And pile them high at Gettysburgh And pile them high at Ypres and ______ ' What is the missing battlefield in these lines from Carl Sandburg's 'Grass'?
4. War was sometimes treated ironically as in this poem by e.e.cummings. 'My sweet old etcetera aunt lucy during the recent war could and what is more did tell you just what everybody was fighting for ...meanwhile my self etcetera lay quietly in the deep mud etcetera (dreaming etcetera,of Your smile eyes,knees and of your ___________ 'What is the missing word?
5. Peter Porter's satirical 'Your Attention Please' adds a 'message of consolation' to a mock-announcement of a nuclear war strike. What is the missing word: 'Some of us may die.Remember,statistically It is not likely to be you.All flags are flying fully dressed On Government buildings- the sun is shining. ______ is the least we have to fear.' ?
6. Who wrote a poem that has these lines in its first stanza: 'Dead men naked they shall be one With the men in the wind and the west {moon;} When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone They shall have stars at elbow and foot.' ?
7. Which painting does Auden refer to in his poem 'Musee des Beaux Arts': ..how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the {disaster;} the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But for him it was not an important {failure;} the sun shone As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green Water..' ?
8. What was the nationality of the pilot serving with the Allied Forces in World War I ,whose thoughts were expressed by W.B Yeats in these lines: 'I know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds {above;} Those that I fight I do not {hate;} Those that I guard I do not love.'?
9. Not all poems in this quiz are about the 'death of humans'. Who wrote this poem in which the annihilation of the London suburb Slough is wished for: 'Come ,friendly bombs, and fall on Slough. It is not fit for human use.There is n't grass to graze a cow....Come,friendly bombs and fall on Slough To get it ready for the plough.'?
10. Also metaphorical death can be a subject. What is the missing word in the beginning lines of Sylvia Plath's 'Daddy': ' You do not do, you do not do Any more, black shoe In which I have lived like a foot For thirty years, poor and white, Barely daring to breathe or Achoo. Daddy, I have had to _______ you.' ?
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