“Yet Do I Marvel” - 2024 ACF Regionals

Question

Referring to God’s inscrutable ways, the speaker of this poem notes that man will never “understand / What awful brain compels His awful hand.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this sonnet that ends with the speaker pondering God’s decision “to make a poet black, and bid him sing!”

ANSWER: “Yet Do I Marvel”

[10e] “Yet Do I Marvel” is by Countee Cullen, a member of this New York-based cultural movement that also included his friends Alain Locke and Langston Hughes.

ANSWER: Harlem Renaissance

[10m] In an epigraph written for this author by Cullen, this poet questions God why “all flesh” bears the label: “Made to die!” A poem by this author ends with the question “Christ! What are patterns for?”

ANSWER: Amy Lowell [or Amy Lawrence Lowell; prompt on Lowell] (Cullen’s poem is “For Amy Lowell.” Lowell’s poem is “Patterns.”)

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Summary


2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley	01/27/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell	01/27/2024	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU	01/27/2024	Y	11	13.64	100%	27%	9%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota	01/27/2024	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska	01/27/2024	Y	6	15.00	100%	33%	17%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State	01/27/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers	01/27/2024	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial	01/27/2024	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt	01/27/2024	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley B	0	10	10	20
Cornell B	Binghamton	0	10	10	20
Cornell A	RIT A	10	10	10	30
Cornell C	RIT B	0	10	0	10
Liberty A (Grad)	Duke A (UG)	0	10	0	10
JMU B (UG)	GWU A (UG)	0	10	0	10
GWU B (Grad)	Maryland B (UG)	0	10	0	10
Liberty B (DII)	JMU A (UG)	0	10	0	10
UNC D (DII)	Liberty C (DII)	0	10	0	10
William & Mary A (UG)	Roanoke College A (DII)	0	10	0	10
UNC B (UG)	Maryland A (Grad)	10	10	10	30
Virginia A (UG)	UNC C (UG)	0	10	0	10
Virginia B (UG)	Maryland C (DII)	0	10	0	10
UNC A (Grad)	Virginia C (UG)	0	10	10	20
UNC A (Grad)	Virginia C (UG)	0	10	10	20
UNC A (Grad)	Virginia C (UG)	0	10	10	20
UNC A (Grad)	Virginia C (UG)	0	10	10	20
UNC A (Grad)	Virginia C (UG)	0	10	10	20
UNC A (Grad)	Virginia C (UG)	0	10	10	20
UNC A (Grad)	Virginia C (UG)	0	10	10	20
UNC A (Grad)	Virginia C (UG)	0	10	10	20
Iowa State	Minnesota C	0	10	0	10
Minnesota B	Arizona State	0	10	10	20
Claremont A	Iowa A	0	10	10	20
Michigan State A	UBC A	0	10	0	10
Texas A	Rice A	10	10	10	30
Sorbonne	Iowa B	0	10	0	10
UW A	Texas A&M A	0	10	0	10
Texas A&M B	Appalachian State	0	10	0	10
Michigan B	Michigan A	0	10	10	20
Michigan C	Ohio State A	0	10	0	10
Kenyon	Ohio State B	0	10	0	10
Haverford	Columbia B	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins	John Jay	10	10	10	30
NYU A	NYU B	0	10	10	20
Columbia A	Penn	0	10	0	10
Columbia C	Rowan	0	10	0	10
Sheffield	Bristol	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Warwick	0	10	10	20
Imperial A	Durham A	10	10	10	30
Oxford C	Durham B	0	10	0	10
Geodesic	Vanderbilt B	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech A	Alabama	0	10	10	20
MTSU	Harding	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Kentucky	0	10	0	10
Vanderbilt A	Tennessee	0	10	10	20
Stanford A	Berkeley C	0	10	10	20
Stanford C	Stanford B	0	10	0	10