This author is described as an “odoriferous poet” by a sentient chair before meeting the composer Benjamin Britten in Alan Bennett’s play The Habit of Art. A poem by this author advises “Let not Time deceive you, / You cannot conquer time” and promises “I’ll love you / Till Africa and China meet, / And the river jumps over the mountain.” This author considered five of his poems to be “trash” and later changed the word “or” in his most famous poem to “and.” Another poem by this author of “As I Walked Out One Evening” bemoans a man who was “my North, my South, my East and West.” One poem by this author begins with the speaker sitting in “one of the dives / On Fifty-second street” and later declares “We must love one another or die.” For 10 points, name this poet of “Funeral Blues” and “September 1, 1939.” ■END■
| Northern California | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 61.80 |
| Southern California | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 92.83 |
| Eastern Canada | Main | Y | 12 | 92% | 0% | 8% | 98.09 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 20% | 129.75 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 7 | 86% | 0% | 29% | 99.33 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 38% | 123.38 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (1) | Main | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 11% | 103.56 |
| Lower Midwest | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 75% | 131.00 |
| Upper Midwest | Main | Y | 11 | 91% | 0% | 18% | 86.20 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 12 | 92% | 0% | 8% | 97.91 |
| Northwest | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 95.25 |
| UK | Main | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 119.00 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 4 | 50% | 0% | 50% | 151.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Queen's A | 25 | 10 |
| Kevin Yang | Illinois C | Purdue A | 36 | 10 |
| Charlie Ruff | McGill C | Toronto J | 40 | 10 |
| Anna Bocook | Louisville B | Notre Dame B | 41 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | UCSC | 43 | 10 |
| Travis Johnson | Pitt A | CWRU D | 43 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Syracuse | 44 | -5 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Guelph A | 46 | 10 |
| Alana Dickey | Indiana A | Illinois A | 52 | 10 |
| Kevin Zheng | Michigan A | Chicago A | 52 | -5 |
| Shourjo Ganguli | OSU C | MSU A | 52 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | South Carolina B | 52 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | UCLA A | 54 | 10 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley E | Berkeley C | 54 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale A | BC A | 56 | 10 |
| AJ Wu | Brown C | Brandeis Lloyd George | 58 | 10 |
| Denis Liu | Stanford C | Stanford B | 60 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley A | 66 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | Virginia Tech B | 70 | -5 |
| Philip Yao | Brown A | Tufts A | 73 | 10 |
| Owen Arneson | Missouri A | Missouri B | 79 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Johns Hopkins C | 80 | 10 |
| Logan Mathis | WashU A | WashU D | 81 | -5 |
| Cole Hennessy | UCF B | ERAU A | 81 | 10 |
| David Bass | Johns Hopkins A | George Washington B | 81 | 10 |
| Aaron Bates | Washington B | British Columbia D | 82 | 10 |
| Noah McRedmond | Notre Dame E | George Mason C | 82 | 10 |
| Rahul Jogadhenu | UCLA C | USC | 83 | 10 |
| Sky Li | Toronto A | Toronto C | 83 | 10 |
| Patrick Torre | Maryland A | Maryland B | 83 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | Liberty C | 83 | -5 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Kentucky | 84 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley B | Berkeley F | 86 | 10 |
| Ian Chow | Washington A | British Columbia C | 87 | 10 |
| Josh Xu | UCLA B | UCI | 93 | 10 |
| Krishay Garg | UCLA D | Claremont Pitzer | 95 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto H | Waterloo | 95 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | OSU B | CWRU B | 95 | -5 |
| Roxanne Tang | OSU A | Pitt C | 95 | 10 |
| Anthony Xu | Amherst A | Bowdoin A | 96 | 10 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard | Brandeis Wilson | 96 | 10 |
| Eric Zhu | Cornell-UG | BU | 96 | 10 |
| Evan Schleck | Georgetown A | Johns Hopkins B | 100 | 10 |
| Kevin Flanagan | Bristol A | Manchester B | 102 | 10 |
| Christian Humeniuk | McMaster A | Western Ontario | 104 | 10 |
| Surya Dinesh | MIT A | Brandeis Orlando | 104 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | British Columbia B | 104 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | WashU C | 105 | -5 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont Scripps | UCSB | 106 | 10 |
| Gannon Smith | Maryland C | Penn A | 106 | -5 |
| Stuart Chandler-Baas | Carleton | Toronto I | 106 | 10 |
| Kara Braun | MSU B | Kenyon B | 106 | 10 |
| Liam Rojas | Virginia A | Liberty B | 106 | 10 |
| Gabriel Avrahami | Georgetown B | George Mason A | 106 | 10 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh B | LSE B | 106 | 10 |
| Micah Lauzon | Dartmouth | Yale B | 107 | 10 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | NC State | 107 | 10 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Chicago B | 108 | 10 |
| Mary Kate Vance | Louisville A | Illinois B | 108 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Michigan A | 108 | 10 |
| Ben Herbst | Notre Dame C | Michigan C | 108 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Purdue C | 108 | 10 |
| Michael Ai | Williams | BC B | 108 | 10 |
| Jonathan Ho | Alberta | British Columbia A | 108 | 10 |
| Fern Fang | VCU A | George Washington A | 108 | 10 |
| Jacob Graham | Chicago C | UIC | 109 | 10 |
| Henry Nonnemaker | CWRU C | CWRU A | 109 | -5 |
| Abigail Lee | Virginia Tech A | Liberty A | 110 | -5 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Virginia Tech A | 125 | 10 |
| March Delfin | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 126 | 10 |
| Davis Johnson | Purdue B | Notre Dame D | 127 | -5 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis Clemenceau | Amherst B | 127 | -5 |
| Addison Wiggins | USF | UF C | 131 | -5 |
| Jack Meyers | Brown B | Bowdoin B | 132 | 10 |
| Sarah Khan | Queen's B | McGill A | 133 | -5 |
| Ryan Hppel | SIUE | Truman State | 137 | -5 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto D | Toronto E | 137 | 10 |
| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | ERAU B | 137 | 10 |
| Margaret Withers | George Mason B | Maryland D | 141 | 10 |
| Donal Ryan | Truman State | SIUE | 143 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | Toronto G | 146 | 10 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto K | Toronto F | 146 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo " | North Carolina C | Tennessee B | 146 | 10 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | ESF | 148 | -5 |
| Sai Subramanian | CWRU B | OSU B | 149 | 10 |
| Andrei Hui | Cambridge A | Warwick B | 149 | 10 |
| Matthew Evans | UF B | Melbourne B | 150 | 10 |
| Aleks Kozlowski | Roanoke | James Madison | 150 | 10 |
| Ilyas Choukri | Virginia Tech B | North Carolina A | 150 | 10 |
| Asha Basu | McGill A | Queen's B | 151 | 10 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster B | Guelph B | 151 | 0 |
| Raisa Tabassum | Guelph B | McMaster B | 151 | 0 |
| Srikar Venkatesan | Penn A | Maryland C | 151 | 10 |
| Theodor Martin | WashU D | WashU A | 151 | 10 |
| Conner Yamnitz | WashU C | WashU B | 151 | 10 |
| Noah Trochessett | UF D | UF E | 151 | 0 |
| Jeevan Iyadurai | UF E | UF D | 151 | 10 |
| Meredith Wiper | CWRU A | CWRU C | 151 | 10 |
| Elise Economou | Pitt B | Kenyon A | 151 | 0 |
| Maggie Sun | MIT B | Tufts B | 151 | 10 |
| Gabriel Dodds | Liberty C | North Carolina B | 151 | 10 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF | Binghamton A | 151 | 0 |
| Will Hoover | RIT A | Binghamton B | 151 | 10 |
| Reese Powell | Cornell-DII | Rochester | 151 | 0 |
| Jordan Parker-Martin | Rochester | Cornell-DII | 151 | 0 |
| Carlos Gonzalez | Syracuse | RIT B | 151 | 10 |