Question
An homage to this poem tells its author, “I swear my dead mother / embraced me. I then washed off my heart with the amniotic water of a green coconut.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Una Marson’s poem “Nostalgia” opens, “I will arise and go again to my fair Tropic” in reference to what W. B. Yeats poem set in a “small cabin… of clay and wattles made” with “nine bean-rows” and a “bee-loud glade”?
ANSWER: “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”
[10m] Una Marson was from this modern-day country, the birthplace of a writer who vowed in a sonnet that “Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack.”
ANSWER: Jamaica [or Jumieka] (The sonnet is Claude McKay’s “If We Must Die.”)
[10h] In her homage to “Innisfree,” this poet imagines swapping “Dark tales of Maroon warriors” and “bush comrades of Cuchulain” with Yeats. This former poet laureate of Jamaica wrote Tamarind Season and I Am Becoming My Mother.
ANSWER: Lorna Goodison [or Lorna Gaye Goodison] (The homage is “Country Sligoville.”)
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Nationals | 04/22/2023 | Y | 20 | 14.50 | 80% | 65% | 0% |
Data
| Cornell A | Imperial A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| WUSTL A | Yale B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago B | Iowa State A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| MIT A | Chicago C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Purdue A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Florida A | South Carolina A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech B | NYU A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Virginia A | Johns Hopkins A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago A | Minnesota A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Ohio State A | Texas A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Penn State A | Florida B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Harvard A | Rutgers A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Rutgers B | WUSTL B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vanderbilt A | Houston A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Stanford A | Cornell B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Illinois A | Georgia Tech A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Michigan A | Duke A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Toronto A | Indiana A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| McGill A | UC Berkeley B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Claremont A | Northwestern A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |