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This poem’s speaker bluntly states “The dawns ruin it” after describing a creature waiting under an oak bush who “remembers freedom” in a dream. The speaker of this poem claims that “you communal people” have forgotten “The wild God of the world,” though “Men that are dying” remember that “Intemperate and savage” deity in this poem. This poem, which first appeared in Cawdor and Other Poems, closes with an image of “the fierce rush: the night-herons by the flooded river cried fear at its rising / Before it was quite unsheathed from reality.” The speaker provides “the lead gift in the twilight” (10[1])in this (10[1])poem, (10[1])whose author’s style of inhumanism (-5[1])is displayed in the claim “I’d (-5[1])sooner, (10[1])except (10[1])the penalties, (10[1])kill a man than” the title animal, (10[1]-5[1])whose “broken pillar of the wing jags (10[1])from the clotted shoulder.” (-5[1])For 10 points, (-5[1])name this Robinson Jeffers poem about (10[1])a wounded bird (10[1])of prey. ■END■ (10[2]0[11])

ANSWER: Hurt Hawks
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2060%0%25%126.50

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Matt JacksonChicago ABrown A10110
Raymond WangCornell AFlorida A10310
Rosa XiaCornell BHarvard A10410
Ricky LiMIT AToronto A109-5
Tim MorrisonStanford AChicago B115-5
Matthew LehmannWUSTL AGeorgia Tech A11610
Mitch McCullarIllinois AYale B11710
Darren PetrosinoRutgers AGeorgia Tech B11910
Chris RayOhio State ADuke A126-5
Caleb KendrickMaryland AYale A12610
Justin HawkinsIndiana AUC Berkeley A13310
Noah ChenColumbia BImperial A137-5
Ethan AshbrookMinnesota ATexas A140-5
Andrew HannaVanderbilt AMinnesota B14610
Alex PijanowskiPurdue AMichigan A14910
Amogh KulkarniChicago BStanford A15210
Ani PerumallaPenn State AWUSTL B1520
Vedul PalavajjhalaWUSTL BPenn State A1520
Carlos DoebeliImperial AColumbia B1520
Vittal BhatNorth Carolina ANorthwestern A1520
Sharath NarayanNorthwestern ANorth Carolina A1520
Jisoo YooTexas AMinnesota A15210
David BassVirginia AClaremont A1520
Kevin ParkClaremont AVirginia A1520
Collin AceRutgers BHouston A1520
John BroussardHouston ARutgers B1520
Tiffany ZhouFlorida BUC Berkeley B1520
Anuttam RamjiUC Berkeley BFlorida B1520