Question

The speaker of a poem by this author describes a singing woman as “the single artificer of the world.” Helen Vendler’s book On Extended Wings takes its title from the last line of a poem by this author which repeats the refrain“death is the mother of beauty.” A poem by this author describes a figure who “rode over Connecticut / In a glass coach” and questions the “thin (-5[1])men of Haddam.” “Twenty snowy mountains” are the setting of that poem by this author that states the “only moving thing / Was the eye” of the title bird. For 10 points, name this poet whose collection Harmonium (10[1])contains “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.” ■END■

ANSWER: Wallace Stevens (The poem in the first line is “The Idea of Order at Key West.”)
<Literature - American Literature>
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Vincent Zhang (DII)PennUniversity of Delaware A67-5
Frank Paz (DII)Swarthmore ANYU A10510
Aiden Palermo (DII)RutgersColumbia A1150
Ben Rotko (UG)Swarthmore BNYU B1150
Geoffrey Wu (UG)Columbia ARutgers1150

Summary

2023 ACF Fall (Rutgers)10/14/2023Y425%0%25%105.00