Packet K: Bonus 5
In one poem, this author apologizes for eating plums that were “so sweet / and so cold.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this poet of “This is Just to Say.” This poet described an object “glazed with rain / water,” upon which “so much depends,” in “The Red Wheelbarrow.”
ANSWER: William Carlos Williams
[10m] Williams was a member of this modernist poetic movement founded by Ezra Pound. H.D. helped compile three statements of this movement, which emphasized the use of direct and precise language.
ANSWER: Imagism [accept word forms such as Imagiste poetry]
[10h] H. D. titled the sequel to her novel HERmione after one of these flowers. In a poem titled for this “Greeny Flower,” Williams describes learning “there were flowers also in hell.”
ANSWER: asphodels [accept “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower”]
<Editors, American Literature> | Packet K
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 109 | 13.12 | 71% | 32% | 28% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Binghamton A | Cornell A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Cornell B | Rochester | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | H |
| Cornell C | Binghamton C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cornell D | RIT A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| ESF | Binghamton B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern California | Main | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Southern California | Main | ✓ | 7 | 11.43 | 71% | 29% | 14% |
| Eastern Canada (1) | Main | ✓ | 5 | 8.00 | 40% | 0% | 40% |
| Eastern Canada (2) | Main | ✓ | 9 | 12.22 | 78% | 33% | 11% |
| Florida | Main | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | Main | ✓ | 12 | 15.83 | 83% | 42% | 33% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | ✓ | 9 | 11.11 | 56% | 33% | 22% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | ✓ | 12 | 11.67 | 67% | 25% | 25% |
| Midwest | Main | ✓ | 9 | 15.56 | 89% | 33% | 33% |
| North | Main | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Northeast | Main | ✓ | 12 | 15.83 | 75% | 58% | 25% |
| Pacific | Main | ✓ | 9 | 14.44 | 78% | 33% | 33% |
| South Central | Main | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 50% | 50% | 75% |
| Southeast | Main | ✓ | 13 | 13.08 | 62% | 31% | 39% |
| Upstate NY | Main | ✓ | 5 | 8.00 | 60% | 0% | 20% |
| UK (North) | UK | ✕ | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| UK (South) | UK | ✕ | 8 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |