Question
In a poem, this author prayed to “die in peaceful harbor,” and asked that “if my stay / was vain, let my vanishing, at least, be virtuous.” In a poem in which he moves between “vain hope and vain sadness,” this poet lamented “the world’s delight is a brief dream.” A “Prayer to the Virgin” ends a collection by this author in which he is “captured” by “lovely eyes” on a day when the “sun’s ray / was darkened.” Thomas (*) Wyatt translated parts of a collection by this author about a woman he had met on Good Friday, which opens “you who hear the sound in scattered rhymes.” For 10 points, the collection Il Canzoniere (“cant-zon-YARE-ay”) is by what Italian poet, whose unrequited love for Laura appears in some of his namesake sonnets? ■END■
ANSWER: Petrarch [or Francesco Petrarca; accept Petrarchan sonnet]
<Yingzhi Nyang, Literature - European - Poetry> ~25262~ <Editor: Joseph Krol>
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Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Tanay Bodducherla | Mira Loma | Heights | 102 | 10 |
Omar Hamid | Dunbar | Winston Churchill B | 107 | 10 |
Matt Mokrzycki | Carl Sandburg | Maggie Walker C | 114 | 10 |
Sanjay Ranjith | Thomas Jefferson D | Mercer County | 126 | 10 |