Question

This place is called a metaphor for art’s “Scene of Instruction” in a chapter that argues that the “poet-as-hero” triumphs at this place by failing just as his precursors, especially Shelley, failed. That chapter in Harold Bloom’s A Map of Misreading quotes a description of this place that “burningly” came upon the speaker “all at once.” A poem begins with the speaker questioning a description of an “ominous tract” containing this location given to the speaker by a “hoary cripple.” (10[1])A quest for this “round (10[1])squat” structure, (10[2])which is “without a (10[1])counterpart in the whole world,” is the subject of a poem (-5[1])from the collection Men and Women. (10[1])A man blows his “slug-horn” (10[1])after reaching this (10[1])place (10[3]-5[1])in that poem (10[2])titled for a nonsense (10[1])line spoken by “Tom O’Bedlam” in King Lear. For 10 points, what mysterious place appears in the title of a poem by Robert Browning about the journey of Childe Roland? (10[1])■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: the Dark Tower [accept “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”; prompt on Tower]
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y18100%0%11%115.72

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Tim MorrisonStanford AGeorgia Tech B7910
Michael MaysImperial AIowa State A8410
Henry CafaroChicago CMichigan A8610
Wenying WuToronto ASouth Carolina A8610
Grace LiuMIT AFlorida B9010
Ethan AshbrookMinnesota APenn A101-5
Matthew LehmannWUSTL AIndiana A10710
Rosa XiaCornell BMinnesota B11210
Clark SmithOhio State ARutgers B11510
Mitch McCullarIllinois APenn State A11610
Matt JacksonChicago ARutgers A11610
Raymond WangCornell AUC Berkeley A116-5
Ben DahlPurdue AFlorida A11610
Elijah ScheinsonColumbia AMcGill A11910
Cole TimmerwilkeHarvard AVanderbilt A11910
Daniel SheinbergYale AWUSTL B12310
Jim FanNorth Carolina AJohns Hopkins A15310
Benjamin McAvoy-BickfordPenn AMinnesota A15410
Karsten RynearsonYale BColumbia B15410
Ryan SunUC Berkeley ACornell A15410