Question
This poem originally appeared in a play The Ascent of F6, in which the mountain climber Michael Ransom goes on an expedition in the fictional country of Ostnia. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this poem whose speaker says, “The stars are not wanted now; put out every one.” A stanza of this poem opens, “He was my North, my South, my East and West.”
ANSWER: “Funeral Blues”
[10e] “Funeral Blues” was written by this author, who wrote “I sit in one of the dives / On Fifty-second Street / Uncertain and afraid” to open his poem “September 1, 1939.”
ANSWER: W. H. Auden [or Wystan Hugh Auden]
[10h] This author recalls arguing with her daughter about reading “Funeral Blues” in the memoir Blue Nights. In a memoir, this author described using “Funeral Blues” to process the death of her husband John Gregory Dunne.
ANSWER: Joan Didion (The second memoir is The Year of Magical Thinking.)
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 9 | 20.00 | 100% | 44% | 56% |
Data
| Haverford | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Rowan A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Princeton A | Columbia C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Penn A | Cornell C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU A | Bard A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Rutgers A | Yale B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Rutgers B | Princeton B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Vassar | Penn B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale A | Yale C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |