Packet 4: Tossup 18

A request in this poem to “curse, bless, me now (15[1])with your (15[1])fierce tears” (15[1]-5[1])is given to its last stanza’s addressee, who is described as being “there on the sad height.” This poem’s speaker describes the words of “wise men” as having “forked no lightning,” while the sun is (0[1])“caught… (15[1])in flight” by “wild (-5[1])men.” The “frail deeds” of “good men” in this poem “might have danced in a (*) green bay.” The speaker’s (10[1])father is (-5[1])addressed in the final stanza of this poem, (-5[1])which states (10[1])“Old age should burn (10[1]-5[1])and rave at close (10[1])of day.” For 10 points, the line (-5[1])“Rage, rage (-5[1])against (10[1])the dying of the light” ends what villanelle (10[1])by Dylan Thomas? ■END■ (10[1]0[4])

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