Question
The speaker of a poem by this author describes a singing woman as “the single artificer of the world.” Helen Vendler’s book On Extended Wings takes its title from the last line of a poem by this author which repeats the refrain“death is the mother of beauty.” A poem by this author describes a figure who “rode over Connecticut / In a glass coach” and questions the “thin men of Haddam.” “Twenty snowy mountains” are the setting of that poem by this author that states the “only moving thing / Was the eye” of the title bird. For 10 points, name this poet whose collection Harmonium contains “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.” ■END■
ANSWER: Wallace Stevens (The poem in the first line is “The Idea of Order at Key West.”)
<Literature - American Literature>
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Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Vincent Zhang (DII) | Penn | University of Delaware A | 67 | -5 |
Frank Paz (DII) | Swarthmore A | NYU A | 105 | 10 |
Geoffrey Wu (UG) | Columbia A | Rutgers | 115 | 0 |
Ben Rotko (UG) | Swarthmore B | NYU B | 115 | 0 |
Aiden Palermo (DII) | Rutgers | Columbia A | 115 | 0 |