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Jean "Binta" Breeze

Jean “Binta” Breeze was born Jean Lumsden on March 11, 1956, in Patty Hill, a village near Montego Bay in Jamaica. She was an internationally renowned dub poet, a form of performance poetry with Caribbean origins that

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Poetry Trivia

Question:

What 1854 military action, described by a French observer as "C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre" (It is magnificent, but it is not war), was immortalized in a famous poem by Lord Alfred Tennyson)?

Answer

"The Charge of the Light Brigade."

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