Question

This author asked if a poem is “peculiar and general” in a manifesto that describes Phoebus’s death with the line “the death of one God is the death of all.” The speaker of a poem by this author encourages a woman to “take the moral law and make a nave of it” and (15[1])describes how “fictive things / wink as they will.” (15[1])“Must Be Abstract” is a (-5[1])section of a manifesto by this author on creating (*) “supreme fiction,” an (10[1])idea referenced in (10[1])his poem “A High-Toned Old Christian (10[1])Woman.” The beauty (10[1])of “inflections” (10[1])and “innuendos” are (10[1])mentioned in a poem by this author whose title creature whirls “in the autumn winds” and is (10[1])not noticed by the “thin men of Haddam.”For 10 points, name this American poet of “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a (10[1])Blackbird.” ■END■ (10[2]0[1])

ANSWER: Wallace Stevens
<Literature - American Literature>
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Summary

2024 Booster Shot (Columbia)02/23/2024N667%0%0%87.00
2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo)02/23/2024N4100%25%0%105.00
2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt)03/02/2024Y475%0%0%86.67
2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes)03/09/2024Y6100%17%17%96.67
2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL)03/09/2024Y3100%33%0%107.67

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Gabe ForrestSquidward Community CollegeTruman State5315
Guy IndoranteIowa StateOhio6215
Andrew ZengStanfordNorth Carolina67-5
Jack LewisMTSUVanderbilt B7910
Shourjo GanguliOhio StateIowa8210
Ophelia Cherry-PulayUSN AGeorgia Tech C8810
Teigue KellyPenn State AWUSTL9110
Gavin MarkoffVanderbilt AGeorgia Tech B9310
Biyang ZhangMichigan AMichigan B9610
Sai SubramanianCase WesternPenn State B11310
Jacob SimmonsSIUEWUSTL J13410
Jonathan ShaufNorth CarolinaStanford13610
Lauren BrownBelmontGeorgia Tech A1360
Amith PunyalaWUSTL AWUSTL C13610