"The illustrious irises" recognize the "poet's mantle" of the Rafael Nunez in one of this man's four "Swans" poems", while he adopted the swan as his "Blazon" in his poetic battle with Enrique Gonzalez Martinez. He wrote of the "golden laughter... cruel and eternal" of Eulalia in "The Air was Gentle...", while another poem ends speaking of the one stringed "monotonous solo" of a cricket and the "hoarse, senile guitar" of "the old cicada." That poem twice mentions "siesta in the tropics" and an old "sea wolf" drinking gin and opens describing how "the sea... reflects the sky's sheet of zinc." "Symphony in Gray Major" appears in his Profane Hymns, while another work tells the title figure there are "a thousand cubs of the Spanish lion" and that he is missing God though he is an Alexander-Nebuchadnezzar. For 10 points, name this author of "To Roosevelt."
"The illustrious irises" recognize the "poet's mantle" of the Rafael Nunez in one of this man's four "Swans" poems", while he adopted the swan as his "Blazon" in his poetic battle with Enrique Gonzalez Martinez. He wrote of the "golden laughter... cruel and eternal" of Eulalia in "The Air was Gentle...", while another poem ends speaking of the one stringed "monotonous solo" of a cricket and the "hoarse, senile guitar" of "the old cicada." That poem twice mentions "siesta in the tropics" and an old "sea wolf" drinking gin and opens describing how "the sea... reflects the sky's sheet of zinc." "Symphony in Gray Major" appears in his Profane Hymns, while another work tells the title figure there are "a thousand cubs of the Spanish lion" and that he is missing God though he is an Alexander-Nebuchadnezzar. For 10 points, name this author of "To Roosevelt."
"The illustrious irises" recognize the "poet's mantle" of the Rafael Nunez in one of this man's four "Swans" poems", while he adopted the swan as his "Blazon" in his poetic battle with Enrique Gonzalez Martinez.
Ruben {Dario}