Question
When God tries to teach this character to say the word “love,” he instead produces “Man’s bodiless prodigious head” and “woman’s vulva,” which then become locked in a death struggle. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this character whose “First Lesson” and “Account of the Battle” are described in poems from a collection illustrated by Leonard Baskin in which he journeys through the universe in search of his female creator.
ANSWER: Crow [accept “Crow’s First Lesson”; accept “Crow’s Account of the Battle”; reject “bird” or “corvid” or “raven”]
[10e] Crow was created by this poet, whose collection Birthday Letters dramatizes his marriage to Sylvia Plath.
ANSWER: Ted Hughes [or Edward James Hughes]
[10m] This other Hughes poem describes a bird whose “wings hold all creation in a weightless quiet” and which “hangs still” before becoming trapped by the horizon in the last stanza.
ANSWER: “The Hawk in the Rain”
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Nationals | 04/22/2023 | Y | 24 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
Data
| Chicago A | Florida A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago B | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia A | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Virginia A | Illinois A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Iowa State A | McGill A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU A | Houston A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Claremont A | Penn A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Maryland A | Stanford A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn State A | Yale B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Toronto A | Chicago C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech B | WUSTL B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Harvard A | Indiana A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| North Carolina A | MIT A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Northwestern A | Minnesota A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Ohio State A | Brown A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Imperial A | Rutgers B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UC Berkeley A | Texas A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Minnesota B | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins A | Michigan A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Purdue A | Florida B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Vanderbilt A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | Duke A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale A | Cornell A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| South Carolina A | Rutgers A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |