Question
One of this poet’s characters advises listeners that “your joy is your sorrow unmasked” and “beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror” in a series of dialogues initiated by Almitra. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Lebanese creator of Al Mustafa, who relays his wisdom in 26 prose poems beginning with “On Love” and ending with “On Death.”
ANSWER: Kahlil Gibran [or Gibran Khalil Gibran]
[10e] Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet draws from wisdom literature with its use of aphorisms, fables, and these didactic stories. In the Gospels, Jesus tells examples of these stories about the Prodigal Son and the Good Samaritan.
ANSWER: parables
[10m] In The Prophet, Al Mustafa speaks while waiting to return home to one of these places. The aphorism “no man is” one of these places opens a John Donne poem that warns “never send to know for whom the bell tolls.”
ANSWER: island [or isle]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Fall (Rutgers) | 10/14/2023 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
Data
| Maryland | Fordham | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Lehigh | Rowan | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Penn | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia A | Princeton | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |