Question

This poem is called a “long crazy line of bullshit about death” in an elegy that ends, “I am buried here and sit by my grave beneath a tree.” A collection titled in reference to this poem includes the refrain, “All the way from Akkad, from Elam, from Sumer.” Samuel Beckett’s translation of this poem unusually preserves its rhyming couplets. A stanza of this poem that describes a “flying machine” befriended by “eagle phoenix and Chinese pihis” (15[1])begins with the line, (*) “Christ (10[1])pupil of my eye.” (10[1])This poem’s second line calls one landmark a “shepherdess” (10[2])and compares (10[2])bridges to a “bleating flock.” (10[2])This poem’s last line titles a 1948 collection by Aimé Césaire. The line “soleil cou coupé” (“so-LAY coo coo-PAY”) or “sun slit throat,” ends this poem, the first in Alcools. For 10 points, a walk through Paris is the subject of what poem by Guillaume Apollinaire? ■END■

ANSWER: Zone” (The elegy in the first line is Allen Ginsberg's “At Apollinaire’s Grave.”)
<Arya Karthik, European Literature>
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Andrew HartBHSUEvans Hall destruction awaiters7615
Anderson Wangremembrance of lost timeThe Catastrophic Implosion of Packet Sub8110
Will AlstonCurse you, Periplus the Platypus!wave2: trimming membership codes 9655377758gp8510
Jordan BrownsteinThe Plague (anime)" was redirected to: "Oran High School Host ClubI would prefer not to9410
Taylor HarveySaint Peter Andre 3000[moderator voice] yes that is so tenpointscore! is your team feeling bonuspilled?9410
Rahul KeyalThe anti-STOON-dahl cabal (the tall Keyal et al.)In Search of Things Past9610
Matt BollingerTeam Name Think DetailI prefer really not to speak. If I speak I’m in big trouble9610
William GoldenRomanos IV Diogenes’ Macaroni GrillThe Canadians10110
James OreficeHang et al., Robert BrowningTeach Us to Outgrow Our Ladness10110

Summary

2023 Chicago Open08/05/2023Y9100%11%0%91.56