Question

This place is called a metaphor for art’s “Scene of Instruction” in a chapter that argues that the “poet-as-hero” triumphs at this place by failing just as his precursors, especially Shelley, failed. That chapter in Harold Bloom’s A Map of Misreading quotes a description of this place that “burningly” came upon the speaker “all at once.” A poem begins with the speaker questioning a description of an “ominous tract” containing this location given to the speaker by a “hoary cripple.” (10[1])A quest for this “round (10[1])squat” structure, (10[2])which is “without a (10[1])counterpart in the whole world,” is the subject of a poem (-5[1])from the collection Men and Women. (10[1])A man blows his “slug-horn” (10[1])after reaching this (10[1])place (10[3]-5[1])in that poem (10[2])titled for a nonsense (10[1])line spoken by “Tom O’Bedlam” in King Lear. For 10 points, what mysterious place appears in the title of a poem by Robert Browning about the journey of Childe Roland? (10[1])■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: the Dark Tower [accept “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”; prompt on Tower]
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Summary

2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y18100%0%11%115.72

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Tim MorrisonStanford AGeorgia Tech B7910
Michael MaysImperial AIowa State A8410
Wenying WuToronto ASouth Carolina A8610
Henry CafaroChicago CMichigan A8610
Grace LiuMIT AFlorida B9010
Ethan AshbrookMinnesota APenn A101-5
Matthew LehmannWUSTL AIndiana A10710
Rosa XiaCornell BMinnesota B11210
Clark SmithOhio State ARutgers B11510
Ben DahlPurdue AFlorida A11610
Raymond WangCornell AUC Berkeley A116-5
Mitch McCullarIllinois APenn State A11610
Matt JacksonChicago ARutgers A11610
Cole TimmerwilkeHarvard AVanderbilt A11910
Elijah ScheinsonColumbia AMcGill A11910
Daniel SheinbergYale AWUSTL B12310
Jim FanNorth Carolina AJohns Hopkins A15310
Karsten RynearsonYale BColumbia B15410
Ryan SunUC Berkeley ACornell A15410
Benjamin McAvoy-BickfordPenn AMinnesota A15410