Tossup
An extended metaphor in this poem compares the dismembering of a right leg to an old tree uprooting from a cliffside and rolling down it. A catalog of mounted depictions of the Seven Deadly Sins in this poem includes Lechery riding a “bearded goat” and Gluttony atop a “filthie swyne” (“filthy swine”) in the train of the female demon Lucifera. Antagonists in this poem include the shapeshifting Archimago and the giant Despair. This poem was the first to be written in a mixed-meter nine-line stanza form now named for its author. The middle sections of this poem center on the themes of chastity and friendship and feature the heroine Britomart. The most read of this poem’s six completed books is its first, which features Una and the Redcrosse Knight. For 10 points, name this epic poem by Edmund Spenser. ■END■
ANSWER: The Faerie Queene
<TH, British Literature>
= Average correct buzz position
Back to tossups