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Poetic allusions (Charity Quiz)
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1. Which modern novel with a title from a 17th century poem features a professional pianist who goes deaf ?
2. Which 18th century poet wished that a 17th century poet were alive to save England? (Thomas Gray re Milton, perhaps ?????)
3. In which poem did an heroic king bemoan being married to an old woman?
4.Which 2 words describe (a) a cocktail (b) wall-hangings in Lepanto (c) sea creatures in the Ancient Mariner ? (I cannot see beyond White Lady and Water Snakes & presumably (a) (b) & (c) are same two words)
5.Which French wine stained a poet's mouth purple? (I can think only of burgundy and bordeaux or claret)
6.Where did wine taste of tar ?
I hope some fellow ABers can help me, please.
2. Which 18th century poet wished that a 17th century poet were alive to save England? (Thomas Gray re Milton, perhaps ?????)
3. In which poem did an heroic king bemoan being married to an old woman?
4.Which 2 words describe (a) a cocktail (b) wall-hangings in Lepanto (c) sea creatures in the Ancient Mariner ? (I cannot see beyond White Lady and Water Snakes & presumably (a) (b) & (c) are same two words)
5.Which French wine stained a poet's mouth purple? (I can think only of burgundy and bordeaux or claret)
6.Where did wine taste of tar ?
I hope some fellow ABers can help me, please.
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6. This is from a poem by Hilaire Belloc called Tanentella
"Do you remember the inn Miranda.... the fleas that tease in the high Pyrenees, and the wine that tasted of the tar."
5. This sounds indeed as if it should be from Keats and his "purple -stained mouth", but the wine is not specifically
named apart from suggesting it is French Provencal.
6. This is from a poem by Hilaire Belloc called Tanentella
"Do you remember the inn Miranda.... the fleas that tease in the high Pyrenees, and the wine that tasted of the tar."
5. This sounds indeed as if it should be from Keats and his "purple -stained mouth", but the wine is not specifically
named apart from suggesting it is French Provencal.
5 Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats
O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been
Cool'd a long age in the deep-delved earth,
Tasting of Flora and the country green,
Dance, and Proven�al song, and sunburnt mirth!
O for a beaker full of the warm South,
Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene,
With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,
And purple-stained mouth;
That I might drink, and leave the world unseen,
And with thee fade away into the forest dim:
As previously stated no specific wine mentioned. Something from the Langedoc or Gigondas or Vacqueras? Maybe "the warm South" would suffice.
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O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been
Cool'd a long age in the deep-delved earth,
Tasting of Flora and the country green,
Dance, and Proven�al song, and sunburnt mirth!
O for a beaker full of the warm South,
Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene,
With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,
And purple-stained mouth;
That I might drink, and leave the world unseen,
And with thee fade away into the forest dim:
As previously stated no specific wine mentioned. Something from the Langedoc or Gigondas or Vacqueras? Maybe "the warm South" would suffice.
Snoozy
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