Question
In Ling Ma’s novel Severance, Balthasar emails the narrator this poem because it reminds him of her name. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this short poem in which “frost on the ground” inspires the speaker to “lift my head and see the moon / Lower my head and I miss my home.”
ANSWER: “Quiet Night Thought” [or “Quiet Night Thoughts” or “Thoughts in Night Quiet” or “Thoughts in the Silent Night” or similar translations; accept Jìngyèsī]
[10e] “Quiet Night Thought” and “Drinking Alone by Moonlight” are two of this Tang dynasty poet’s many poems about the moon.
ANSWER: Lǐ Bái [or Li Po or Lǐ Bó or Taìbaí]
[10h] In “Drinking Alone by Moonlight,” the moon, the speaker, and this thing “make three.” This thing belonging to the speaker “tangles and breaks” and “creeps about at my side.”
ANSWER: the speaker’s shadow
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Fall (Rutgers) | 10/14/2023 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 75% | 25% | 50% |
Data
| Columbia A | Rutgers | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Swarthmore A | NYU A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Swarthmore B | NYU B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn | University of Delaware A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |