Question
The speaker of a section titled for one of these objects says, “Anyone apart from someone he loves / understands what I say. / Anyone pulled from a source / longs to go back.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these objects which title a section of a poem that ends, “it’s best to cut conversation / short, say good-bye, and leave.” 35 lines about these objects open a poem whose first two books discuss the carnal self.
ANSWER: reeds [or Nay Namih; accept “The Song of the Reed” or reed flute; prompt on flute by asking “a flute made of what material?”]
[10m] Coleman Barks uses past translations to “interpret” the work of this author, who opened a poem split into six books with “The Song of the Reed.”
ANSWER: Rumi [or Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī or Mawlana]
[10e] Rumi used this language to write the Masnavi. Edward FitzGerald translated a work in this language written by Omar Khayyam, the Rubaiyat.
ANSWER: Persian [or Farsi]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 9 | 8.89 | 78% | 11% | 0% |
Data
| Columbia B | NYU A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| NYU B | Columbia C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rutgers B | Haverford | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Penn A | Vassar | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Yale B | Princeton A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Princeton B | Penn B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Bard A | Rutgers A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Columbia A | Yale A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Cornell C | Yale C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |