Tossup
In a poem by this author, the speaker “[drops] down, and down” after a “Plank of Reason” breaks. In another poem by this author, the speaker claims, “sore must be the storm / That could abash” the title figure. “[The] Setting Sun” and “the Fields of Gazing Grain” are passed by a speaker created by this author, who, in another poem, described a figure that “never… asked a crumb of me” and “perches in the soul.” A poem by this author centers on a carriage ride with Immortality and the title figure, who “kindly [stops]” for her. For 10 points, “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers” was written by what “Belle of Amherst” who also wrote “Because I could not stop for Death?” ■END■
ANSWER: Emily Dickinson [or Emily Elizabeth Dickinson] (The poem mentioned in the first line is “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain.”)
<Chicago B, American Literature>
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Buzzes
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | TUH | Conv. % | Neg % | Average Buzz |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK (North) | UK | 5 | 80% | 0% | 101.25 |
| UK (South) | UK | 8 | 75% | 0% | 87.00 |
| Northern California | US | 4 | 75% | 25% | 69.33 |
| Southern California | US | 7 | 100% | 0% | 75.14 |
| Eastern Canada (1) | US | 4 | 100% | 0% | 66.25 |
| Florida | US | 4 | 100% | 0% | 73.25 |
| Great Lakes | US | 10 | 100% | 0% | 56.80 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | US | 9 | 100% | 11% | 71.44 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | 11 | 100% | 9% | 75.55 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | 1 | 100% | 100% | 123.00 |
| Midwest | US | 9 | 100% | 22% | 60.00 |
| North | US | 4 | 100% | 0% | 75.75 |
| Northeast | US | 2 | 100% | 0% | 87.00 |
| Pacific | US | 8 | 100% | 13% | 70.63 |
| Southeast | US | 12 | 100% | 0% | 63.00 |
| Upstate NY | US | 5 | 100% | 20% | 68.80 |