Question

This author discussed how “an uncaught bird is ever hovering, hovering” in the third stanza of the poem “Song of the Universal,” which opens the section “Birds of Passage.” This poet wrote, “I hear bravuras of birds” and envisions “where the hummingbird shimmers” in a poem that states, “You will hardly know who I am or what I mean.” A “musical shuttle, Out of the Ninth-month midnight” opens a poem by this author in which a (*) mockingbird longs (10[1])for its mate. (10[1])This poet wrote, “A shy and hidden bird is warbling a song” in a poem whose title objects, a star, and a bird are “twined with the chant of my soul.” A “solitary” thrush “sings (10[1])by himself a song” in a poem by this author in which the “great star early droop'd in the western (10[1])sky in the night.” For 10 points, name this author of “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd.” ■END■

ANSWER: Walt Whitman [or Walter Whitman Jr.]
<Noah Sheidlower, American Literature>
= Average correct buzz position

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Stephen LiuWe joppingTOAD7710
Mitch McCullarOh you like geography? Name every Forrest.Khalil v Carbolic Shisha Ball Co8010
Chinmay KansarabruhWhy the Kremlin Hates Bananas11510
Rahul KeyalIll-Advised BuzzStatler and Waldorfesque Former Penn Bowl Editors13510

Summary

2024 Penn Bowl Playtest10/12/2024Y4100%0%0%101.75
2024 Penn Bowl UNC10/26/2024N3100%0%33%135.67
2024 Penn Bowl Florida10/26/2024N2100%0%50%150.00
2024 Penn Bowl Harvard10/26/2024N475%0%25%122.00
2024 Penn Bowl UK10/26/2024N5100%20%0%119.40
2024 Penn Bowl Berkeley11/02/2024N2100%0%0%96.00
2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite11/02/2024N3100%0%0%137.33
2024 Penn Bowl CWRU11/02/2024N4100%0%25%132.00
2024 Penn Bowl Chicago11/02/2024N8100%13%13%115.75
2024 Penn Bowl Texas11/02/2024N250%50%50%71.00