“The Canonization” - 2025 Penn Bowl

Question

While defending his love, the speaker of this poem asks “What merchant’s ships have my sighs drowned?” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this poem which declares “we’ll build in sonnets pretty rooms; / as well a well-wrought urn becomes / the greatest ashes.”

ANSWER: “The Canonization” (by John Donne)

[10h] Cleanth Brooks argued that the only way John Donne (“dun”) could have said what “The Canonization” says is through this concept. The first chapter of Brooks’s The Well Wrought Urn states that “the language of poetry is the language of [this concept].”

ANSWER: paradox [reject “contradiction”]

[10e] In “The Language of Paradox,” Brooks finds paradoxes even in the “apparently simple and straightforward” verse of this poet, who wrote “Tintern Abbey.”

ANSWER: William Wordsworth

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Summary


2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU	11/01/25	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	6	15.00	100%	33%	17%
2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State	11/08/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	4	5.00	50%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	11.43	100%	14%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	12.50	75%	50%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	10.00	89%	11%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	3	13.33	67%	67%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


MIT B	Brandeis	0	0	10	10
RIT	Brown	0	0	10	10
Yale	Harvard	0	0	10	10
MIT A	I've been running into you in my lead plumbocene what could have benzene	0	0	10	10
CWRU	Ohio State A	0	0	10	10
Michigan B	Michigan A	0	0	10	10
Michigan C	Ohio State B	0	0	0	0
Columbia A	JHU B	0	0	10	10
Mount Sinai	NYU B	0	0	10	10
JHU A	Swarthmore	0	0	10	10
Columbia B	John Jay	0	0	10	10
Maryland A	Maryland C	10	0	10	20
Texas B	Central Oklahoma	0	0	10	10
Oklahoma	Texas A	0	0	10	10
NYU A	Maryland B	10	10	10	30
Illinois	Northwestern A	0	0	10	10
UChicago C	Northwestern B	0	0	0	0
UChicago B	Purdue A	0	0	0	0
Indiana	Purdue B	0	0	10	10
abg academy	New Young Whigs of America	10	0	10	20
Wake Up Paddington A Washington Mystery	rusty shackleford	0	0	10	10
Toronto E	#OpenToBuzz	0	0	10	10
Guelph perfomative male competition	Aweille Kevin Fan osti continue comme ça	0	0	10	10
McGill B	Ottawa 67s	0	0	10	10
Toronto Murder on the Rider Express	McGill Fartlets	0	0	10	10
Queen's is monitoring the situation	Toronto Sunshine Bubbles	0	0	10	10
Toronto Operation PBSuccess	Carleton A	10	0	10	20
Toronto G	Waterloo you are crooked	0	0	10	10
Stanford A	Free Win	0	0	10	10
Stanford B	Berkeley A	0	0	0	0
Berkeley B	The best time to buzz was twenty clues ago. The second best time to buzz is now	10	0	10	20
Berkeley C	In Search of Lost Clues	10	0	10	20
Burnaburiash's Lapis Lazuli	To buzz is to be perceived	0	0	10	10
Coughing Baby	Quiztian Bale in Ratman Begins	0	0	10	10
Chimp Brisket	Knorr Stock Clue	10	0	10	20
Bristold	Of Mice and Penn	0	0	10	10
Penn and the Art of Tossup-Bonus cycle Maintenance	Washed Scrubs	0	0	10	10
Paul Quifford, or, It Was a Dark and Stormy Tournament	The Bit and the Penndulum	0	0	10	10
Galactic Ombudsmen	question mark	0	0	0	0
why is it called a score clue if nobody scores points on it	1. Wawa 2. Blank Street 151. Black Sheep at Kings Cross rail	0	0	10	10
Hail to the Sheaf	Alas poor Warwick, I knew him Edinburgh	0	0	10	10
UNC A	Planck Sinatra	10	0	10	20
VT A	UNC B	10	0	10	20
VT B	Wise Duke	0	0	0	0
WashU Kiki	WashU Bouba	0	0	10	10
VJ Edgecombe School of Interior Design - Edwardsville	Truman State	0	0	10	10