Round 5: Tossup 4

In The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Sandy Stranger imagines a character from this poem telling her she is to be “so ill-fated in love” as Miss Jean Brodie recites this poem. That character in this poem is compared to a “bold seër in a trance” as she chants “a carol, mournful, holy.” In this poem’s last stanza, a man sees the title character and muses “She has a lovely face.” This poem begins in a place where “On either side the river lie / Long fields of barley and of rye.” The title character of this poem says “I am half sick of shadows” (10[1])after weaving images of a nearby castle. In this poem, a mirror is “crack’d from (10[1])side to side” after the title character triggers a curse by looking out at Lancelot. For 10 points, (-5[1])name this Alfred, Lord Tennyson poem about a woman who dies on a boat headed to Camelot. (10[1]0[1])■END■

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