“You are your words. Your listeners see Written on your face the poems they hear Like letters carved in…
Stephen Spender; W.H. Auden is the poet and elegiac subject pairing. The other proposed poet–subject pairs do not identify these lines.
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“You are your words. Your listeners see
Written on your face the poems they hear
Like letters carved in a tree’s bark
The sight and sounds of solitudes endured”.
These are lines from a poem by __________ on the death of __________.
Answer and explanation
Correct answer C
Stephen Spender; W.H. Auden is the poet and elegiac subject pairing. The other proposed poet–subject pairs do not identify these lines.
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