The 1920 poem “Accomplished Facts” repeats this sentence several times before using it to enigmatically end the poem. For 10 points each:
[10m] Give this three word sentence which, in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, follows many paragraphs describing deaths like those of Ronald Weary and Edgar Derby.
ANSWER: So it goes.
[10e] “Accomplished Facts” is by this poet who called Chicago “Hog Butcher for the World.”
ANSWER: Carl Sandburg [or Carl August Sandburg]
[10h] “Accomplished Facts” opens by stating that this author sent one friend an “arbutus bud” every year. Billy Collins wrote a poem titled, “Taking Off [this author’s] Clothes.”
ANSWER: Emily Dickinson [or Emily Elizabeth Dickinson; accept “Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes”]
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