Question
This author described a road “haunted by ill angels only” in “Dream-Land,” which is one of two poems by him to reference El Dorado. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author who wrote of envious angels “chilling and killing” the title maiden in his poem “Annabel Lee.” This poet also wrote “The Raven.”
ANSWER: Edgar Allen Poe
[10m] In “The Raven,” the “foot-falls” of angels “on the tufted floor” precedes the narrator’s pleas to respite and forget this woman whom he mourns.
ANSWER: Lenore
[10h] In another Poe poem, a person with this name is likened to a Naiad ("NYE-ad") who evokes “the glory that was Greece” and “the grandeur that was Rome.” A book-length poem by H.D. is titled for a person with this name “in Egypt.”
ANSWER: Helen [accept “To Helen” or Helen in Egypt]
<Literature - American Literature>
Summary
| 2023 ACF Fall (Rutgers) | 10/14/2023 | Y | 7 | 12.86 | 100% | 29% | 0% |
Data
| NYU A | Columbia B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Lehigh | NYU B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland | Rutgers | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Swarthmore A | NYU C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Princeton | University of Delaware B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Rowan | Fordham | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Swarthmore B | University of Delaware A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |