Packet 3: Tossup 9

The speaker imagines an ideal in which walking to these places “Would entail a fording” and “employ / Images of sousing” in the poem “Water.” This kind of place titles a poem that declares “someone will forever be surprising / A hunger in himself to be more serious.” The title vehicles are “closed like” components of these places in the first line of “Ambulances.” (10[1])A speaker wonders “what we shall turn” these places into (10[1])in (10[1])a poem that predicts “A shape less recognisable each week, / A purpose more obscure.” “Echoes snigger (10[1])briefly” in one of these “accoutred (10[2])frowsty barns” when visited by a speaker (10[2])who stops and takes off his (10[1])cycle-clips. One of these (10[1])places contains a monument with clasped hands that inspired (-5[1])“An Arundel Tomb.” (10[1]-5[1])For 10 points, (-5[1])Philip (10[1])Larkin feels “awkward reverence” in a poem (10[1])titled for (10[1])what sort of place “going”? (10[1])■END■ (10[6]0[1])

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