Tennyson commemorates a disastrous Crimean War cavalry attack in this poem.

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The Charge of the Light Brigade — poet: Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Source: The Charge of the Light Brigade (poem) ↗

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39Dickinson imagines Death as a courteous carriage driver in this poem.IDENTIFY
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Dickinson's poem personifies death as a courteous carriage driver arriving calmly rather than violently.
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40This Eliot poem presents the hesitant inner monologue of its named speaker and opens with an epigraph from Dante.IDENTIFY
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Eliot's Prufrock voices a man paralyzed by hesitation and opens with an epigraph borrowed from Dante's Inferno.
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41Lewis Carroll tells of a fantastical monster's slaying in this nonsense poem featuring invented words such as galumphing.RECALL
Jabberwocky
Carroll's Jabberwocky tells of a fantastical creature's slaying using invented nonsense words like galumphing.
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