Question
A poem set in this country asks a series of questions about a ship’s figurehead, such as “Did the blue afterwards wear away?” and “Did her eyes slant in the old way?” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this country that titles a long feminist poem divided into the sections “Palinode,” “Leuké,” and “Eidolon.” It ends with the protagonist having Achilles’s son in this country.
ANSWER: Egypt [or Miṣr; or Arab Republic of Egypt; or Jumhūrīyat Miṣr al-ʻArabīyah; accept Helen in Egypt] (H.D. wrote Helen in Egypt.)
[10e] The speaker imagines Egyptian kings whose “will was not to die” in a sonnet by this poet, who sees “three long mountains and a wood” in her poem “Renascence” (“ruh-NAY-sense”).
ANSWER: Edna St. Vincent Millay [or Nancy Boyd]
[10h] This poem’s many allusions to ancient Egypt include a reference to the weighing of the heart. This documentary poem sequence by Muriel Rukeyser chronicles the Hawk’s Nest mining disaster in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia.
ANSWER: The Book of the Dead
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Nationals | 04/22/2023 | Y | 20 | 12.00 | 90% | 25% | 5% |
Data
| Claremont A | Northwestern A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cornell A | Imperial A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| WUSTL A | Yale B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago B | Iowa State A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| MIT A | Chicago C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Purdue A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Florida A | South Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU A | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Virginia A | Johns Hopkins A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Minnesota A | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Ohio State A | Texas A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn State A | Florida B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers A | Harvard A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Rutgers B | WUSTL B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Vanderbilt A | Houston A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Stanford A | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech A | Illinois A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Michigan A | Duke A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Toronto A | Indiana A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| UC Berkeley B | McGill A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |