Question

The line “Happy is he who like [this man], has made a beautiful voyage” opens a sonnet from Joachim du Bellay’s The Regrets inspired by a disappointing trip to Rome. For 10 points each:
[10e] Louise Labé’s (“luh-BAY’s”) Sonnet I contrasts what “wise” figure with a speaker hopelessly in love? An Alfred, Lord Tennyson poem titled for him ends, “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
ANSWER: Ulysses [or Odysseus; or Ulysse]
[10h] In the oft-quoted opening line of Labé’s Sonnet VIII, which adapts the oxymorons of Petrarch’s Sonnet 134, she states, “I live. I die.” followed by this pair of contradictory actions. Name both actions.
ANSWER: burn AND drown [or “I burn and drown”; or “I’m on fire and I drown”; or “je me brûle et me noie”]
[10m] Labé’s sonnets were likely for Olivier de Magny (“duh mahn-YEE”), a member of this poetic circle that revived the alexandrine. The poet of Sonnets for Helen, Pierre de Ronsard, led this group with a mythological name.
ANSWER: La Pléiade (“lah play-YAHD”) [or the Pleiades; or the Brigade]
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Arizona StateFlorida100010
Georgia StateNYU1001020
Georgia TechMIT1001020
North Carolina BIllinois B0000
Cornell AIowa State1001020
LSEWUSTL B1001020
MinnesotaHarvard100010
Chicago ANorth Carolina A1001020
Illinois ANorthwestern1001020
YaleOttawa100010
RutgersUC Berkeley A100010
Columbia AStanford1001020
IndianaToronto A100010
Toronto BJohns Hopkins100010
UC Berkeley BBritish Columbia1001020
UCFRIT100010
Virginia TechToronto C100010
VirginiaColumbia B100010
Waterloo AWUSTL A100010
Penn StateWaterloo B1001020
Winona StateOhio State100010
TexasChicago B1001020