Round 5: Tossup 11

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

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