“Ode on a Grecian Urn” - 2025 ACF Fall

Question

In this poem, the speaker comments that “heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter” while observing a piper playing music and two lovers about to kiss. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this ekphrastic poem whose title subject is addressed as a “still unravish’d bride of quietness” and a “foster child of silence and slow time.” This poem ends by declaring that “beauty is truth, truth beauty.”

ANSWER: “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

[10e] “Ode on a Grecian Urn” is by this Romantic English poet, whose other works include “La Belle Dame sans Merci” and “Ode to a Nightingale.”

ANSWER: John Keats

[10h] Following Keats’ death, Percy Shelley eulogized him in this elegy. This poem asks, “Where was lorn Urania when [the title character of this poem] died?”

ANSWER: “Adonais” (“add-on-AY-iss”) [or “Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc.”]

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Summary


Northern California	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Southern California	Main	Y	7	12.86	86%	43%	0%
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	5	16.00	60%	60%	40%
Florida	Main	Y	4	10.00	50%	25%	25%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	10	16.00	70%	70%	20%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	18.89	100%	67%	22%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	10.00	78%	22%	0%
North	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
Northeast	Main	Y	12	19.17	92%	67%	33%
Pacific	Main	Y	8	10.00	75%	25%	0%
South Central	Main	Y	6	10.00	67%	17%	17%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	11.67	67%	33%	17%
UK (North)	UK	Y	5	10.00	60%	20%	20%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	8.00	40%	20%	20%

Data


Berkeley Boss Bandit	Berkeley Little Prince	10	10	0	20
Berkeley Mighty Miner	Berkeley Skeleton King	0	10	0	10
Stanford B	Stanford A	10	10	0	20
UCSC	Berkeley Archer Queen	10	10	0	20
UCSD B	Claremont B	10	10	0	20
UC Irvine	UCSD A	10	10	0	20
Claremont C	UC Santa Barbara	10	10	0	20
UCLA A	UCLA C	0	0	0	0
USC B	UCLA F	0	10	0	10
USC A	UCLA D	0	10	0	10
Claremont A	UCLA E	0	10	0	10
Carleton B	Carleton A	0	0	0	0
McGill A	Ottawa D	10	10	10	30
McGill C	Ottawa A	10	10	10	30
UCF A	Florida A	10	10	10	30
South Florida A	Florida B	0	10	0	10
Florida Tech A	Florida State A	0	0	0	0
Florida Tech B	ERAU Daytona A	0	0	0	0
Ottawa C	McGill E	0	0	0	0
McGill B	Ottawa B	10	10	0	20
CWRU B	Michigan State C	10	10	0	20
CWRU C	Ohio State B	10	10	0	20
UNC A	JMU A	10	10	10	30
Ohio State A	Louisville D	10	10	0	20
Michigan A	Louisville C	10	10	10	30
Michigan B	Michigan State B	10	10	10	30
Michigan C	Pittsburgh	10	0	0	10
CWRU D	Michigan D	0	0	0	0
CWRU A	Michigan State A	0	10	0	10
Ohio State C	WVU A	10	10	0	20
NYU B	George Mason C	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins	Lehigh A	0	10	0	10
Maryland B	Vassar A	10	10	0	20
Princeton	NYU A	0	0	0	0
Penn	Lehigh B	0	0	0	0
Columbia A	Rowan	0	10	0	10
Rutgers D	Columbia B	10	10	0	20
Rutgers C	Stony Brook	0	10	0	10
Vassar B	NYU C	0	10	0	10
Wisconsin A	Iowa State	10	10	0	20
Wisconsin C	Macalester	0	10	0	10
St. Thomas	Minnesota	0	10	10	20
Wisconsin B	Michigan Tech	0	10	0	10
Amherst B	Brandeis Mozart	10	10	0	20
Brandeis Bach	Boston University A	10	10	0	20
Tufts A	Brandeis Beethoven	0	10	0	10
Dartmouth B	Brown A	10	10	0	20
Dartmouth C	Vermont A	0	10	0	10
Harvard	Southern Connecticut State University A	0	0	0	0
Amherst A	MIT B	10	10	0	20
Tufts C	Williams C	10	10	10	30
Williams A	Tufts B	10	10	10	30
MIT A	UConn A	10	10	10	30
Brown B	Vermont B	10	10	10	30
Williams B	Boston College B	0	10	0	10
Alberta B	Arizona State A	0	10	0	10
Arizona State B	British Columbia A	0	10	0	10
British Columbia B	Washington Chinook	10	10	0	20
Washington Chum	Washington Sockeye	10	10	0	20
Washington Coho	Washington Atlantic	0	0	0	0
Washington State	Washington Masu	0	10	0	10
Boise State	Washington Pink	0	0	0	0
Washington Steelhead	Texas	0	10	0	10
Central Oklahoma B	Kansas State B	0	10	0	10
Kansas State A	Tulsa B	0	0	0	0
Murray State College B	Oklahoma	0	10	0	10
Nebraska A	Nebraska C	0	0	0	0
Nebraska B	Harding	0	10	0	10
Murray State College A	Rose State	10	10	10	30
Virginia Tech A	JMU B	10	10	0	20
Liberty A	William & Mary C	10	10	0	20
UNC D	Liberty B	10	10	0	20
Liberty C	NCSU A	0	10	0	10
William & Mary A	UNC B	0	10	0	10
UNC C	Virginia Tech B	0	10	0	10
VCU A	NCSU B	10	10	0	20
Virginia Tech C	William & Mary B	10	10	10	30
Kentucky	Louisville A	0	0	0	0
Alabama A	Auburn A	10	10	10	30
Tennessee B	Auburn C	0	0	0	0
Clemson B	Emory A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Georgia A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech C	Vanderbilt B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech D	Vanderbilt C	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech E	Clemson C	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech F	Montevallo	0	0	0	0
Clemson A	South Carolina A	0	10	0	10
Tennessee A	Sewanne	0	0	0	0
Vanderbilt A	Tennessee Tech	10	10	0	20
Durham B	Edinburgh C	0	0	10	10
Durham C	York	0	10	0	10
Sheffield B	Durham D	10	10	0	20
Sheffield A	Edinburgh B	0	10	0	10
Binghamton A	Rochester	0	10	0	10
Binghamton B	RIT A	0	0	0	0
Cornell A	Binghamton C	0	0	0	0
RIT B	Cornell B	0	0	0	0
Cornell D	Cornell C	10	10	10	30
Durham A	Edinburgh D	0	0	0	0
Chipola College	Auburn B	10	10	10	30