Packet 9: Bonus 12
A response to this poem by Ocean Vuong states, “Suppose you woke & found your shadow replaced by a black wolf.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this poem about an object that lacks a head with “eyes like ripening fruit” and yet is “suffused with brilliance inside.” This poem ends by commanding “you must change your life.”
ANSWER: “Archaic Torso of Apollo” [or “Archäischer Torso Apollos”]
[10e] The “Archaic Torso of Apollo” is a poem in this 14-line form. A Shakespeare poem in this form begins by asking, “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”
ANSWER: sonnet [accept Shakespearean sonnet]
[10m] Other sonnets written by this poet of“Archaic Torso of Apollo” include the Sonnets to Orpheus. This Austrian poet began his Duino Elegies by asking, “Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic orders?”
ANSWER: Rainer Maria Rilke [or René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke]
<Editors, European Literature> | Packet I
| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 121 | 16.36 | 98% | 48% | 17% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claremont A | Claremont B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UC Irvine | UCLA F | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UC Santa Barbara | UCSD A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UCLA B | UCLA D | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UCSD B | UCLA C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| USC A | UCLA A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| USC B | UCLA E | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK (North) | UK | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| UK (South) | UK | Y | 8 | 15.00 | 100% | 38% | 13% |
| Northern California | US | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Southern California | US | Y | 7 | 15.71 | 100% | 57% | 0% |
| Eastern Canada (1) | US | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 40% | 40% |
| Eastern Canada (2) | US | Y | 9 | 14.44 | 100% | 44% | 0% |
| Florida | US | Y | 4 | 7.50 | 75% | 0% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | US | Y | 12 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 9 | 16.67 | 100% | 44% | 22% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| Midwest | US | Y | 9 | 21.11 | 100% | 78% | 33% |
| North | US | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| Northeast | US | Y | 10 | 16.00 | 100% | 40% | 20% |
| Pacific | US | Y | 8 | 18.75 | 100% | 63% | 25% |
| South Central | US | Y | 7 | 15.71 | 100% | 43% | 14% |
| Southeast | US | Y | 13 | 16.92 | 92% | 54% | 23% |
| Upstate NY | US | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |