Round 8: Tossup 9
A Samuel Purchas travelogue inspired this poem’s opening lines. The speaker of this poem imagines people crying “Beware! Beware!” due to his “flashing eyes [and] flowing hair” since he “has drunk the milk of paradise.” This poem’s final stanza describes a dream containing “a damsel with a dulcimer ... singing of Mount Abora.” This poem was left unfinished because the interruption of a “person from Porlock” caused the author to forget the opium dream that inspired it. In this poem, the sacred river Alph runs through the “stately pleasure dome” in the capital of Xanadu. For 10 points, name this Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem titled for a Mongol Emperor. ■END■
ANSWER: “Kubla Khan” [or “Kubla Khan: or A Vision in a Dream”]
<Editors, British Literature> | Packet H
= Average correct buzz position
Buzzes
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | TUH | Conv. % | Neg % | Average Buzz |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK (North) | UK | 5 | 100% | 40% | 87.00 |
| UK (South) | UK | 8 | 88% | 0% | 76.43 |
| Northern California | US | 4 | 50% | 0% | 57.00 |
| Southern California | US | 7 | 86% | 14% | 84.83 |
| Eastern Canada (1) | US | 5 | 80% | 40% | 78.75 |
| Eastern Canada (2) | US | 9 | 67% | 33% | 92.00 |
| Florida | US | 4 | 100% | 0% | 84.25 |
| Great Lakes | US | 11 | 100% | 9% | 74.09 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | US | 9 | 89% | 33% | 68.00 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | 12 | 75% | 33% | 88.11 |
| Midwest | US | 9 | 89% | 33% | 73.13 |
| North | US | 4 | 75% | 25% | 78.00 |
| Northeast | US | 12 | 100% | 8% | 74.83 |
| Pacific | US | 8 | 100% | 13% | 67.88 |
| South Central | US | 7 | 71% | 43% | 60.40 |
| Southeast | US | 13 | 100% | 15% | 63.92 |
| Upstate NY | US | 5 | 100% | 0% | 88.60 |