“fearful symmetry” - 2023 ARCADIA

Question

In a poem titled for this phrase, “28 reporters and an essayist” write up an animal “imported at great expense from / Kuala Lumpur” who is “indifferent to beauty or brutality.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Give this two-word phrase. A 1794 poem’s opening stanza asks, “What immortal hand or eye, / Could frame thy [this two-word phrase]?”

ANSWER: “fearful symmetry” (The poem is William Blake’s “The Tyger.”)

[10e] This poet wondered if any tiger could “drink martinis ... as we do” in the haiku “Symmetries and Asymmetries.” This poet also wrote “September 1, 1939.”

ANSWER: W. H. Auden [or Wystan Hugh Auden]

[10h] This contemporary of Auden described the “profitable likeness” of a tiger in the poem “Fearful Symmetry.” This poet wrote a long autobiographical poem about Northumbria titled Briggflatts.

ANSWER: Basil Bunting [or Basil Cheesman Bunting]

<CM, British Literature>

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Summary


2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	Premiere	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University	Premiere	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges	Premiere	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Duke	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	4	17.50	75%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Emory	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Imperial	Imperial	Y	5	22.00	100%	80%	40%
2023 ARCADIA at Indiana	Premiere	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Maryland	Maryland, Online	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State	Ohio State, Texas	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
2023 ARCADIA Online	Maryland, Online	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2023 ARCADIA at RIT	Premiere	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
2023 ARCADIA at Texas	Ohio State, Texas	Y	3	13.33	67%	67%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL	Premiere	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%

Data


Berkeley C	Berkeley B	0	10	0	10
Berkeley A	Stanford A	10	10	0	20
McDouble West-Carleton	Ottawa B	10	10	0	20
Ottawa A	Toronto	0	10	0	10
Waterloo	Ottawa C	10	10	0	20
Auxiliary Lofthouse Cookie University	I will play anything with a buzzer in front of me	10	10	0	20
South Carolina B	James Madison A	10	0	0	10
South Carolina A	James Madison B	10	10	0	20
North Carolina B	NC State	10	10	0	20
Duke	North Carolina A	10	10	0	20
Georgia A	Emory A	0	10	0	10
Georgia B	Georgia Tech A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech D	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech B	Tennessee A	10	10	0	20
Cambridge A	Birmingham	10	10	0	20
Oxford	Edinburgh	10	10	10	30
Imperial A	Durham	10	10	10	30
Cambridge B	Imperial B	10	10	0	20
Bristol	Warwick	0	10	0	10
Vanderbilt	Chicago A	10	10	0	20
Chicago B	Indiana	10	10	0	20
Illinois B	Illinois A	10	10	0	20
Purdue A	Notre Dame B	10	10	0	20
Notre Dame A	Purdue B	0	10	0	10
Maryland A	George Washington A	10	10	0	20
Johns Hopkins	Georgetown	10	10	0	20
Maryland B	George Washington B	10	10	0	20
Kenyon B	Michigan A	0	0	0	0
Michigan B	Kenyon A	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A	Ohio State B	10	10	0	20
Ganon Evans Fan Club	Arizona State	10	10	0	20
Farrellmagnetism	Boston College	10	10	10	30
MSU A and Friend	Zen and the Art of Buzzing	10	10	0	20
Cornell R	Cornell MATLAB	10	10	10	30
Syracuse+Rochester	RIT	0	10	0	10
Texas A	HCC	10	10	0	20
Texas B	TAG Magnet: Taylor's Version	0	0	0	0
TAMU	Texas C	10	10	0	20
Squidward Community College	Missouri B	10	10	0	20
Missouri A	WUSTL H2O	10	10	10	30
WUSTL XYZ	SIUE	10	10	0	20