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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]
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EditionsHeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
212116.3698%48%17%

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Durham CEdinburgh C010010E
Edinburgh ADurham A010010E
Edinburgh BDurham D010010E
Sheffield ADurham B010010E
YorkEdinburgh D0101020EM

Summary

TournamentEditionExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
UK (North)UKY512.00100%20%0%
UK (South)UKY815.00100%38%13%
Northern CaliforniaUSY415.00100%50%0%
Southern CaliforniaUSY715.71100%57%0%
Eastern Canada (1)USY518.00100%40%40%
Eastern Canada (2)USY914.44100%44%0%
FloridaUSY47.5075%0%0%
Great LakesUSY1220.00100%67%33%
Lower Mid-AtlanticUSY916.67100%44%22%
Upper Mid-AtlanticUSY220.00100%50%50%
MidwestUSY921.11100%78%33%
NorthUSY412.50100%25%0%
NortheastUSY1016.00100%40%20%
PacificUSY818.75100%63%25%
South CentralUSY715.71100%43%14%
SoutheastUSY1316.9292%54%23%
Upstate NYUSY514.00100%40%0%