Question
A poem by this author describes a group riding “into the jaws of Death.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this poet, who used the line “half a league, half a league, half a league onward” to open his “Charge of the Light Brigade.”
ANSWER: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
[10m] Tennyson titled another poem for this character, in which he vows “to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” George Chapman translated a poem titled for this character who encounters the lotus-eaters.
ANSWER: Ulysses [or Odysseus]
[10h] This poem by Tennyson was often a companion piece to “Ulysses.” A description of how the “woods decay and fall” begins this poem, whose speaker states “after many a summer dies the swan.”
ANSWER: “Tithonus”
<Literature - British Literature>
Summary
| 2023 ACF Fall (Rutgers) | 10/14/2023 | Y | 6 | 3.33 | 33% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Columbia A | Maryland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rutgers | Lehigh | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| NYU A | NYU C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Princeton | Columbia B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Rowan | University of Delaware B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Swarthmore B | Penn | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |