Poetry Puzzle
SIR -It was nice to see the "Malley" affair handled with sanity and discrimination. Legpull or no legpull, some of the poems are really quite remarkable. I’ve been amusing myself by disconcerting a few wiseacres and groundlings with this little puzzle. F.S. (Takapuna). GREAT NEW SERIES Do you LOVE SHAKESPEARE, but HATE the modern poéts? Shakespeare wrote eight of these lines, Auden nine. Can you tell which? Now be careful! 1. And courage to his leaking ship appointed. 2. And art made tongue-tied by authority. 3. And folly, doctor-like, controlling skill. 4. And reason stoned by mediocrity. 5. And justice exiled till Saint Geoffrey’s Day. 6. And simple ath miscalled simplicity. 7. Slim ‘truth dismissed without a character. 8. Greed showing shamelessly her naked money. 9. And fright perfection wrongfully disgraced. 10. Setad. maiden virtue satel strumet Ti. beauty scratching miserably for food. 12. And all love’s wondering eloquence , debased. 13. And captive good attending captain ill, 14. Freedom by power shockingly maltreated. 15. And gilded honour shamefully misplaced. 16. Honour self-sacrificed for calculation. 17. And strength by limping sway disabled ANSWERS ON PAGE 15
ANSWERS TO POETRY PUZZLE on Page 12 Auden: 1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 11, 12, 14, 16. Shakespeare: 2, 3, 6, 9, 10, 13, 15, 17.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 270, 25 August 1944, Page 12
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213Poetry Puzzle New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 270, 25 August 1944, Page 12
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