whoseeks...the palms of Africa".
A poem with this title invokes the image of a "starved and phthisic negress. . . whoseeks...the palms of Africa". This figure is the second in the title of a poem thatasks of "terrified vague fingers" pushing back the "glory from her loosening thighs".In a short story, one of these (+) creatures is advised to "learn to purr as quicklyas possible" before venturing back out into the world, while another poem says that "Their hearts have not grown old" in discussing the "bell-beat" they create in the poet's (*) "nineteenth autumn". A poem about one of these animals escaping its cage was written by Charles Baudelaire for Les Fleurs du Mal. For ten points, name this type of animal "nine-and-fifty" of which flew wild at Coole in a Yeats poem and into which Hans Christian Andersen's ugly duckling turned.
A poem with this title invokes the image of a "starved and phthisic negress. . .
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