Round 7: Tossup 8

In one poem by this author, the speaker swears that “Once out of nature I shall never take / My bodily form from any natural thing.” The “ceremony of innocence is drowned” in a different poem by this (10[1])author that states (10[1])“the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” This poet envisioned a “tattered coat upon a stick” (10[2])in a poem that begins by lamenting “that is no country for old men.” Chinua Achebe (-5[1])took the title for (10[1])Things Fall Apart from a poem by this author that ends (-5[1])by envisioning a “rough beast” that “slouches toward Bethlehem to be born.” For 10 points, name this author of “Sailing to Byzantium” (10[1])and “The Second Coming.” (10[1])■END■ (0[2])

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