Question
In one poem by this author, a man laconically notes "I found / a thing to do" about a woman "come through wind and rain" who "shut the cold out and the storm." In one poem by this author, a man plots to show his "heart's abhorrence" "twenty-nine distinct damnations" to "send him flying / Off to hell." One poem by this author ends "all night long we have not stirred / And yet (*) God has not said a word!" This author wrote about a woman strangled with her yellow hair in "Porphyria's Lover." In a poem by this author, Ferrara presents a Fra Pandolf painting showing the "spot of joy" of a woman executed for having a heart "too soon made glad." For 10 points, name this poet whose soliloquies include "My Last Duchess." ■END■
ANSWER: Robert Browning [prompt on Browning; do not accept “Barrett Browning” or “Elizabeth Browning”] (The poem in the second sentence is “Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister.”)
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| 2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 42 | 93% | 19% | 0% | 86.97 |