Question
This author is asked to "Please shut off the telephone" in a "Reply" crumpled on a desk. This man wrote, "I come, my sweet, to sing to you" in a poem to his wife that uses this author's triadic line style. This poet claimed that all women "have Helen in their hearts" in that poem, whose title "green and wooden" object can be found in hell. In a poem set when his wife and baby are asleep, this author asked, "Who shall say I am not / the happy genius of my household?". This poet of (*) "Danse Russe" wrote, "Forgive me" in a 28-word note to his wife describing some "sweet" and "cold" objects. For 10 points, name this Imagist poet who confessed to eating "the plums / that were in / the icebox" in his poem "This Is Just To Say." ■END■
ANSWER: William Carlos Williams (Williams' wife Flossie wrote the "Reply" to "This Is Just To Say" in the first line; the unnamed poem in the second and third lines is Williams' "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower.")
<Literature - American Literature - Poetry>
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| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | TUH | Conv. % | Power % | Neg % | Average Buzz |
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| 2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 4 | 100% | 75% | 0% | 76.00 |