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[Maninblack]

As others are now posting can anyone help with these please?
1 Which poet referred to himself as Merlin in the summing up of his careeer?
2 Which poet/poem thought that music one hadn't heard was preferable to that which one had?
3 Who, in a poem, were relieved to hear the sound of bagpipes?
4 In which poem did an heroic king bemoan being married to an old woman?

Sorry but I'm just not a great poetry fan.
Any steering in the right direction would be appreciated.

[crofter]

3. I worked on this with slaney a few weeks ago.
We finally came up with Jessie Brown in the poem "The Relief of Lucknow" by RTS Lowell.

I hope the others are easier! Good Luck now!

[slaney]

2. John Keats
Ode on a Grecian Urn.
This was posted some weeks back

[crofter]

Hi slaney - I've just been talking about you!
Is poetry your forte?

[slaney]

Hello crofter
No not really .. just got a grasshopper mind!

[slaney]

crofter -- just thought what my forte is-- Latin Military Vocabulary!
Learned vast chunks of it at school, and have been waiting (in vain) for decades for it to be any use to me.

[Pantheon]

When I looked at this one - the question is in the plural ... who WERE ....

Jessie Brown heard The Hielanders / Highlanders -

possibly the 'inhabitants / defenders' of Lucknow or 'the battery line' who were relieved at hearing the pipes?

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/lowell-lu cknow.html

[crofter]

Good point Pantheon. In the original question (link given below) the verb was given in the singular. Hence it seemed correct to give Jessie Brown.

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Quizzes-and-Puz zles/Question335861.html

[slaney]

1. Possibly Tennyson.
His poem "Merlin and the Gleam" is said to be an allegorical summing up of his poetic career.

[Maninblack]

Thanks everyone.

3 is 'were' and not 'was' so I'm looking for a plural.
I'll keep plodding on.

[crofter]

I find that there are several poems written about this same siege. Although Jessie Brown is often mentioned, she may not be the only heroine.

The safer answer answer is to follow Pantheon's suggestion and say "Jessie Brown and the Garrison at Lucknow"

[Maninblack]

Thanks. I've also found out that the 32nd and 53rd regiments were there so may add them too!