Packet 5: Tossup 11

A person with this trait who “hid his face amid a crowd of stars” (15[1])is the dedicatee (15[1])of a Pierre de Ronsard-inspired sonnet. Noises made by “Hakagawa” (15[1])and “Fraulein von Kulp” are overheard by a man with this trait, who sees “Christ the tiger.” in a poem that ends by describing the “thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season.” (15[1])Unless the (15[1])“soul clap its hands and sing”, men with this trait will be a “tattered (*) coat (10[2])upon (-5[1])a stick” (10[6])according (10[2]-5[1])to (-5[1])one poem. (10[2])T.S. Eliot’s “Gerontion” (10[1])is about a man with this trait, (-5[1])which is described (10[1])as “but a paltry (10[1])thing” in “Sailing (10[1])to Byzantium.” (10[3])For 10 points, W.B. (-5[1])Yeats (10[2])wrote that there was “No (10[1])country” (10[1])for (10[2])men (10[2])with (10[2])what (10[3])trait? (10[2])■END■ (10[3]0[1])

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