Bonus

This writer’s poem “The Summer Day” ends by asking the reader “what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this American poet who declared “You do not have to be good” in the opening of another poem, “Wild Geese.”
ANSWER: Mary Oliver
[10m] In another Oliver poem, one of these other birds causes the narrator to “not once… think of the god/of plunge and blood, of iron mouths.” In an Edward Lear poem, one of these birds dances “to the light of the moon” after getting married using a pig’s nose ring.
ANSWER: owls [accept The Owl and the Pussycat]
[10e] In 1984, Oliver’s collection American Primitive won the poetry category of this annual award. These literary awards were established in the will of their namesake newspaper publisher.
ANSWER: Pulitzer Prize
<Briticisers, American Literature>

EditionsHeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
11315.3877%54%23%

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Conversion

TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
BirminghamCambridge A0000
Cambridge BBristol10101030HME
Cambridge CSouthampton001010E
Durham BEdinburgh A010010M
Durham CEdinburgh D001010E
Edinburgh BDurham A001010E
Edinburgh CDurham D0101020ME
Imperial ALSE0101020ME
Imperial BCambridge E001010E
Imperial CCardiff010010M
Imperial DOxford001010E
Sheffield BYork10101030HME
WarwickCambridge D10101030HME

Summary

TournamentEditionExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
UK (North)UKY516.0080%60%20%
UK (South)UKY815.0075%50%25%