" This poet wrote about "Old Chucky," a hen who is stung to death by a "transmogrifying bee" and is imagined by her owner to be in a long sleep.
One of this author's poems uses enjambment between two stanzas to communicate "but how exceedingly/and purply did the knot/Swell with the venom." Another of his poems sees a "lady young in beauty waiting" who spurns an admirer who addresses himself as "a gentleman in a dustcoat trying." This poet wrote about "Old Chucky," a hen who is stung to death by a "transmogrifying bee" and is imagined by her owner to be in a long sleep. This author of "Piazza Piece" wrote about "one house" in which we are "sternly stopped" in a poem that conveys how the title character's "brown study Astonishes us all." This author of "Janet Waking" humorously recounted how the title character "with rod" made the geese "rise/From their noon apple-dreams and scuttle/Goose-fashion under the skies" in a poem which opens "There was such speed in her little body, And such lightness in her footfall." For 10 points, name this Fugitive poet of "Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter."
One of this author's poems uses enjambment between two stanzas to communicate "but how exceedingly/and purply did the knot/Swell with the venom."
John Crowe Ransom