Sylvia Plath’s father - 2023 ARCADIA

Question

The speaker finds this person’s bones “Enlisted in a cramped necropolis” and his “speckled stone askew by an iron fence” in the poem “Electra on Azalea Path.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this person who titles a poem in which he is called “Marble-heavy, a bag full of God,” and a “panzer-man” in contrast to the speaker, who “may be a bit of a Jew.”

ANSWER: Sylvia Plath’s father [or Otto Emil Plath; accept “Daddy”; prompt on father or dad by asking “whose father/dad?”; reject “Ted Hughes”; reject “Plath” alone]

[10h] “A blue sky out of the Oresteia / Arches above” the speaker in this poem, in which Plath tells her father that he is as “pithy and historical as the Roman Forum” and opens, “I shall never get you put together entirely.”

ANSWER: “The Colossus”

[10e] The speaker dreams that she is Oedipus while watching these animals in Plath’s “The Eye-Mote.” One of these animals “must think it queer” to do the title action in Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.”

ANSWER: horses

<CM, American Literature>

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Summary


2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	Premiere	Y	2	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University	Premiere	Y	3	16.67	67%	100%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges	Premiere	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2023 ARCADIA at Duke	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2023 ARCADIA at Emory	Emory, Duke, Yale	Y	4	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2023 ARCADIA at Imperial	Imperial	Y	5	18.00	80%	60%	40%
2023 ARCADIA at Indiana	Premiere	Y	5	14.00	60%	80%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Maryland	Maryland, Online	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	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%	67%	67%
2023 ARCADIA at RIT	Premiere	Y	2	25.00	100%	100%	50%
2023 ARCADIA at Texas	Ohio State, Texas	Y	3	3.33	0%	33%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL	Premiere	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


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