Milton retells humanity's biblical fall in this epic, arranged in twelve books in its revised edition.

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38Tennyson commemorates a disastrous Crimean War cavalry attack in this poem.IDENTIFY
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade memorializes a disastrous real cavalry charge from the Crimean War.
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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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