Packet 2: Tossup 13

The speaker of a poem by this author says he will walk “alone, unknown, my back curved, my hands crossed, / Sorrowed, and the day for me will be like the night.” A phrase from Virgil’s Eclogues titles Pauca Meae, the fourth of six books in a collection by this poet divided into the sections “once” and “today.” A poem by this author, whose speaker resolves to “place on your tomb / A bouquet of green (15[2])holly (15[2]-5[1])and flowering heather,” (15[1])is written in (15[1])(*) alexandrins ternaires (-5[1])(“ah-lex-awn-DRAHN ter-NAIR”). This author’s collection Les Contemplations (10[1]-5[1])includes the poem (-5[1])“Tomorrow, At Dawn,” (10[3]-5[1])which mourns the drowning (10[1])of his daughter (10[2])Léopoldine. (10[8])In a (10[1])novel by this (10[1])author, a (10[1])jilted (10[1])factory worker is dismissed and forced (10[1])to sell (10[1])her hair and teeth (10[2])to (10[1])support her daughter. (10[2]-5[2])For 10 points, what author wrote about Fantine (10[1])and Cosette (10[3])in (10[1])Les Misérables? (10[2])■END■ (10[4])

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