Question
The speaker tells his lover, “If we make it / to shore… I will name our son after this water. I will learn / to love a monster,” in an Ocean Vuong poem titled for an “Immigrant” version of this poetic form. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this poetic form that consists of prose accompanied by one or more haiku. A travel diary in this poetic form opens “The months and days are the travellers of eternity.”
ANSWER: haibun
[10e] The term haibun was coined by this author, who used it for his travelogue The Records of a Weather-Exposed Skeleton. This Japanese master of haiku wrote “The old pond – / a frog jumps in, / sound of water.”
ANSWER: Matsuo Bashō [or Matsuo Bashō or Bashō Matsuo or Matsuo Kinsaku or Matsuo Chūemon Munefusa]
[10m] Bashō used “The months and days are the travelers of eternity” to open this travelogue written in haibun. This travelogue recounts Bashō’s journey through Japan with his companion Sora.
ANSWER: The Narrow Road to the Deep North [or The Narrow Road to the Interior or Oku no Hosomichi]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 9 | 17.78 | 100% | 67% | 11% |
Data
| Cornell C | Princeton B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| NYU A | Columbia C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Haverford | Penn A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers A | NYU B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Penn B | Yale A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale B | Rowan A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale C | Vassar | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Princeton A | Bard A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia A | Rutgers B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |