Question
This poem ends with the speaker claiming “I sang in my chains like the sea.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this poem whose “carefree” speaker is held “green and dying” by Time. This poem opens with the speaker remembering when they were “young and easy under the apple boughs.”
ANSWER: “Fern Hill”
[10m] The author of “Fern Hill” also wrote this poem, which describes “wise men” whose “words have forked no lightning.” This villanelle addressed to the poet’s dying father claims “old age should burn and rave at close of day.”
ANSWER: “Do not go gentle into that good night”
[10e] “Do not go gentle into that good night” and “Fern Hill” are by this Welsh poet.
ANSWER: Dylan Thomas [or Dylan Marlais Thomas]
<Literature - British Literature>
Summary
| 2023 ACF Fall (Rutgers) | 10/14/2023 | Y | 6 | 8.33 | 50% | 17% | 17% |
Data
| Fordham | Swarthmore B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Lehigh | University of Delaware B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Columbia A | Swarthmore A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| University of Delaware A | NYU A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| NYU B | NYU C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Penn | Princeton | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |