Question
The speaker says, “They cannot tear the garden out of me, / Nor smear my love with names” in a poem titled for this author by James Wright. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author who described the beauty of what you love in a poem dedicated to Anactoria. The speaker of a poem by this author asks a “Deathless [figure] of the spangled mind” to “be my ally.”
ANSWER: Sappho [accept but do not reveal Sappho of Lesbos] (The poem is “Hymn to Aphrodite.”)
[10e] Sappho was a lyric poet from this Greek island, as was her contemporary Alcaeus of Mytilene. A term for female same-sex love is derived from the name of this island.
ANSWER: Lesbos [prompt on lesbian]
[10h] Sappho described skin that was “once supple and smooth” in a part of her fragment 58 nicknamed for this mythical figure. In a poem titled for this figure, the speaker says “The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.”
ANSWER: Tithonus [accept the Tithonus poem] (The second poem is “Tithonus” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.)
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 9 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
Data
| NYU A | Cornell C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Vassar | NYU B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn A | Rowan A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Princeton A | Haverford | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Princeton B | Bard A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale C | Rutgers B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers A | Yale A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Penn B | Yale B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Columbia A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |