Question
The speaker of this poem notes how a figure “arous’d” the “sweet hell” within him, “the unknown want, the destiny of me,” before he shouts, “O give me the clew!” This poem repeatedly refers to the “yellow half-moon enlarged, sagging down, drooping,” and “lagging.” This poem ends with the speaker learning the “key” word that arose from the fusion of the “thousand responsive songs at random” and the “song of my dusky demon and brother.” The earliest draft of this poem was titled “A (*) Child’s Reminiscence.” Part of this poem is rendered in italics to translate a “solitary guest from Alabama” calling for his mate. The section Sea-Drift begins with this poem. The sea whispers “the low and delicious word death” in this poem set on “Paumanok’s gray beach.” For 10 points, a boy listens to a mockingbird in what Walt Whitman poem that personifies the sea as an old woman swaying a crib? ■END■
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 112.00 |
2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 89.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 138.67 |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 130.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 131.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 50% | 0% | 17% | 138.33 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 154.00 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Ariel Faeder | throw away your cards, rally in the streets | Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms | 54 | 15 |
Will Alston | Walston et. al. | NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess) | 101 | 10 |
Micah Colman | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 101 | 10 |
Stephen Liu | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | Cry of the Common Loon | 101 | 10 |
Kevin Wang | CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU! | I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire | 102 | 10 |
Matt Bollinger | BHSU ReFantazio | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | 107 | 10 |
Anderson Wang | A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | Berkeley | 107 | 10 |
Sky Li | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 111 | 10 |
Joel Miles | Thompson et al. | UBC | 111 | 10 |
Henry Atkins | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 114 | -5 |
Jordan Brownstein | "Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question bro | Banned from ARGOS | 119 | 10 |
Rob Carson | BHSU Rebirth | Clown Senpais | 128 | -5 |
Ryan Sun | number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | Stanford+ | 128 | 10 |
Frances Hadley | Limp Franceskit | Simple Vibes | 137 | -5 |
Cooper Roh | just one more half-dot bro | 12 Litres of Green Tea | 138 | 10 |
Adam Silverman | |madam| | Pahkin' the Ahgo | 143 | 10 |
Andrew Gao | Import Pandas | Hu up Jinning they Tao | 154 | 10 |
Charles Hang | WashU | Clown Squad | 154 | 0 |
Michael Hundiing | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | Notre Dame | 154 | 10 |
Ned Tagtmeier | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | Northeast by Northwestern | 154 | 0 |
Leo Tao | Clown Squad | WashU | 154 | 0 |
Matt Lafer | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | hawk two of | 154 | 10 |
Daoud Jackson | Defying Suavity | Cambridge | 154 | 10 |
Joseph Krol | Cien Años de Quizboledad | Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | 154 | 10 |
Ben Russell Jones | Simple Vibes | Limp Franceskit | 154 | 0 |
Halle Friedman | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | Cope is the thing with feathers | 154 | 10 |
Aaron Dos Remedios | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 154 | 10 |
Jack van Nostrand | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 154 | 10 |