Round 6: Tossup 5

This poet is invaded by night “with her powerful army” in a poem that recalls being armed for the “hour of revenge.” A poem by this author asks a “brother” in the “bedrock depths” to “rise up in birth with me.” The memory of a “deserted one” is likened to the sea at the end of a numeralled collection by this poet that opens with “Body of a Woman.” This poet climbs the title “Heights” of a ruined city in a poem from a fifteen-canto epic chronicling the New World. This poet grieves a former lover in the last romantic poem of a collection, which opens by declaring (10[1])“tonight I can write the saddest lines.” For 10 points, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair is by what Chilean poet? ■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: Pablo Neruda [or Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto]
<McGill E + Georgia Tech A, World Literature> | Packet F
= Average correct buzzpoint

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Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Neg %Avg. Buzz
Northern CaliforniaMain4100%0%93.25
Southern CaliforniaMain7100%0%91.14
Eastern Canada (1)Main4100%0%94.50
Eastern Canada (2)Main9100%0%98.44
FloridaMain3100%0%100.00
Great LakesMain10100%20%87.50
Lower Mid-AtlanticMain9100%0%97.33
Upper Mid-AtlanticMain978%0%91.71
MidwestMain9100%0%77.78
NorthMain4100%0%125.00
NortheastMain1275%17%90.56
PacificMain8100%38%111.63
South CentralMain683%33%123.40
SoutheastMain1292%0%86.27
Upstate NYMain5100%20%126.20