My New Year’s Resolution for 2021 is to read more poetry. So, this new series of quizzes, will take a poem by a famous poet on his or her birthday and ask you to fill in the missing words. The poem is presented in order, as written. The poem for this quiz is the 1936 poem Funeral Blues by WH Auden whose birthday is on February 21st.
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Question of
1
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cut
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switch
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Question of
2
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prevent
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stop
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Question of
3
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silence
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close
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Question of
4
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mourners
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grieving
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Question of
5
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moaning
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sighing
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Question of
6
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message
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words
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Question of
7
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public
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city
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Question of
8
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black
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dark
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Question of
9
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and
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my
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Question of
10
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week
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days
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Question of
11
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talk
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breath
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Question of
12
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thought
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knew
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Question of
13
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wanted
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needed
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Question of
14
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moon
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wind
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Question of
15
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sweep
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close
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Question of
16
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nothing
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nought
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