Walt Whitman - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

The narrator imagines “moans of movement, voices, hands in air” and “nude ghosts seeking each other out in the silence” in a “Love Poem on a Theme by” this author. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this poet, described as a “childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator” in a poem whose narrator also asks Federico Garcia Lorca, “what were you doing down by the watermelons?”

ANSWER: Walt Whitman (The other poem is “A Supermarket in California” by Allen Ginsberg.)

[10e] Allen Ginsberg’s “Love Poem on a Theme by Whitman” describes these things “fallen from heaven” and “locked shuddering naked,” drawing from a Whitman poem that begins, “I sing [this sort of thing] electric.”

ANSWER: bodies [accept “I Sing The Body Electric”]

[10h] In the essay “Taking a Walk Through Leaves of Grass,” Ginsberg highlights the eroticism of a Whitman poem titled for this figure. In the last poem preceding the Calamus poems, this figure is told “be not afraid of my body.”

ANSWER: Adam [accept “As Adam Early in the Morning”]

<HG, American Literature>

Back to bonuses

Summary


Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	16.67	100%	50%	17%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	10.00	67%	33%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	8.00	60%	20%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	14.00	80%	60%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	16.25	75%	63%	25%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	2	0.00	0%	0%	0%

Data


UCF C	Florida B	0	10	0	10
UCF B	Florida State A	0	10	0	10
Florida A	Valencia A	10	10	0	20
Kenyon	Carnegie Mellon B	0	10	0	10
Carnegie Mellon A	Case Western A	10	10	0	20
Michigan B	Michigan D	10	10	0	20
Michigan A	Michigan C	10	10	10	30
Ohio State A	Michigan State	0	10	0	10
Ohio State B	Case Western B	0	10	0	10
Duke	Liberty B	0	10	0	10
South Carolina	Liberty C	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech A	UNC B	10	10	0	20
UNC C	Virginia A	0	0	0	0
UNC D	Liberty A	0	0	0	0
William & Mary	Wake Forest	10	10	0	20
Chicago A	Illinois A	10	10	0	20
Chicago B	Missouri	0	10	0	10
Iowa State	Minnesota B	0	10	0	10
Wisconsin A	Winona State	0	10	0	10
Carleton	Wisconsin B	0	10	0	10
BU	Tufts A	0	0	0	0
Brandeis A	Harvard B	0	0	0	0
Brown A	Brandeis B	0	10	0	10
Dartmouth A	MIT A	0	10	0	10
Harvard A	UMass Boston	10	10	0	20
Notre Dame A	Georgetown A	10	10	0	20
Stanford B	Georgetown B	10	10	0	20
Northwestern A	Notre Dame B	10	10	0	20
Northwestern B	Notre Dame C	0	10	0	10
Purdue	Iowa	0	10	10	20
UW A	Alberta	10	10	0	20
UW B	UBC	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech B	10	10	10	30
Alabama A	Vanderbilt A	0	10	0	10
Bruin A	Louisville A	10	10	0	20
Oxford A	Bristol	10	10	0	20
Manchester	Cambridge A	0	10	0	10
Southampton A	Cambridge B	10	10	0	20
Cambridge C	Southampton B	0	10	0	10
Warwick B	Cambridge D	0	0	0	0
Warwick A	Cambridge E	10	10	0	20
NYU C	Durham	10	10	0	20
Oxford C	Imperial B	10	0	0	10
Imperial A	Oxford B	10	10	0	20
Sheffield	LSE	0	10	0	10
Columbia B	Penn B	10	10	0	20
Cornell B	NYU B	10	10	10	30
George Washington A	Johns Hopkins A	0	0	0	0
Rutgers A	Haverford A	10	10	0	20
George Washington B	John Jay College	0	0	0	0
Maryland B	Maryland A	10	10	0	20
Columbia C	Yale A	0	10	0	10
Cornell C	Cornell D	0	0	0	0
RIT B	RIT A	0	0	0	0
NYU A	Haverford B	10	10	10	30