Robert Frost - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

This poet concluded that gravestones might “believe the lie” that “men hate to die / and have stopped dying now forever” at the end of his poem “In a Disused Graveyard.” For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this New England poet whose poems about death include “The Death of the Hired Man,” “Out, Out—,” and “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”

ANSWER: Robert Frost [or Robert Lee Frost]

[10m] In this Frost poem, a man sees a graveyard “so small the window frames the whole of it” during an icy conversation with his wife. This poem is titled for the event that the couple has recently held for their dead son.

ANSWER: “Home Burial”

[10h] Frost’s own gravestone mentions one of these conflicts, which subtitles Shirley Clarke’s documentary about him. Frost’s poem “The Lesson for Today” ends by stating that he had one of these conflicts “with the world.”

ANSWER: lover’s quarrel [accept “I had a lover’s quarrel with the world”; prompt on quarrels]

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California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	12.50	100%	0%	25%
Canada	Main Site	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	20.00	100%	60%	40%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	8.89	67%	11%	11%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	11.25	88%	13%	13%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	4	12.50	75%	25%	25%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	15.00	100%	0%	50%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	6.67	58%	0%	8%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	12.50	88%	25%	13%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley D	10	10	0	20
Stanford B	Berkeley B	10	0	0	10
Stanford A	Berkeley C	10	10	0	20
UC Irvine	UCLA B	10	0	0	10
UBC B	Brock	10	0	0	10
Florida C	Central Florida B	0	0	0	0
Florida A	Central Florida A	10	0	0	10
Central Florida C	Florida B	10	0	0	10
Michigan State	CWRU A	10	0	10	20
Michigan A	Ohio State A	10	10	0	20
Michigan B	Ohio State C	10	10	0	20
Pittsburgh	Michigan C	10	10	10	30
Ohio State B	CWRU B	10	0	0	10
James Madison B	William and Mary	0	0	0	0
Liberty A	James Madison A	0	0	0	0
Virginia Tech A	NC State A	10	0	10	20
Liberty C	NC State B	10	0	0	10
Liberty B	North Carolina C	10	0	0	10
North Carolina B	South Carolina A	10	10	0	20
North Carolina A	South Carolina B	10	0	0	10
VCU	Duke	0	0	0	0
Wake Forest	Virginia	10	0	0	10
Arizona State	UCSD B	10	0	0	10
UCLA A	UCSD C	10	0	10	20
UC Santa Barbara	UCSD A	10	0	0	10
Chicago B	Northwestern D	10	0	0	10
Chicago C	Chicago E	0	0	0	0
Illinois A	Notre Dame B	10	0	0	10
Illinois B	Indiana C	10	0	0	10
Purdue A	Illinois C	10	10	0	20
Indiana B	Purdue B	10	0	10	20
Northwestern C	Northwestern B	10	0	0	10
Indiana A	Notre Dame A	10	0	0	10
Bowdoin A	Yale	0	0	0	0
Harvard A	Brown	10	10	10	30
Dartmouth B	Dartmouth A	10	0	0	10
Brandeis A	Southern Connecticut State	10	0	0	10
Minnesota A	Claremont	10	10	10	30
Missouri A	Georgia Tech A	10	0	0	10
Carleton College	Missouri B	10	10	0	20
Iowa State	Washington A	10	0	0	10
Texas A&M A	Murray State A	10	0	0	10
Texas A	Texas B	10	0	10	20
Alabama A	WashU B	10	10	0	20
WashU A	Kentucky	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Louisville A	10	0	0	10
Mississipi State	Georgia Tech D	10	10	0	20
Alabama B	Sewanee	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Tennessee A	10	0	0	10
Cardiff	Southampton B	10	0	0	10
Birmingham	Montpellier	10	0	0	10
Cambridge B	Bristol	10	0	10	20
Warwick A	Cambridge A	10	0	0	10
Cambridge C	City St. George's	10	0	0	10
Imperial C	Oxford B	0	0	0	0
UCL	LSE	0	0	0	0
Manchester	Edinburgh A	0	0	0	0
Oxford C	Warwick B	0	0	0	0
Durham	Edinburgh B	10	0	0	10
Catholic	Johns Hopkins B	0	0	0	0
Maryland C	Columbia A	10	0	0	10
Columbia B	Maryland B	10	10	10	30
John Jay	NYU C	10	10	0	20
Rutgers A	Maryland A	10	0	0	10
Rutgers B	Georgetown	10	0	0	10
Columbia C	Swarthmore	10	0	0	10
NYU B	Vassar	10	0	0	10
Cornell C	Penn State	10	0	0	10
Cornell A	RIT	10	0	0	10
Rochester	Binghamton A	10	0	10	20
Imperial A	Oxford A	0	0	0	0
Cornell B	Binghamton B	10	10	0	20
Southampton A	Imperial B	10	0	0	10