Round 5: Tossup 11

A person with this trait who “hid his face amid a crowd of stars” (15[1])is the dedicatee 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.” Unless the (15[1])“soul clap its hands and sing”, men with this trait will be a “tattered (*) coat upon a stick” according (10[1]-5[1])to one poem. (10[1])T.S. Eliot’s “Gerontion” (10[1])is about a man with this trait, which is described (10[1])as “but a paltry thing” in “Sailing to Byzantium.” For 10 points, W.B. Yeats wrote that there was “No country” for men with what trait? (10[1])■END■

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