Question
In a poem titled for one of them, one of these people is “chaired… through the market-place” and “brought [home] shoulder-high.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this type of person who is addressed in a poem that notes that “early though the laurel grows / It withers quicker than the rose.”
ANSWER: an athlete [accept “To an Athlete Dying Young”; accept runners]
[10e] This author of “To an Athlete Dying Young” included poems like “Loveliest of trees, the cherry now” in his collection A Shropshire Lad.
ANSWER: A. E. Housman [or Alfred Edward Housman]
[10h] The speaker of this Housman poem reflects on a “Roman and his trouble” being “ashes under Uricon” while watching a gale buffet the woods at the title place.
ANSWER: “On Wenlock Edge the wood’s in trouble” [accept descriptions of poem 31 from A Shropshire Lad]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 9 | 15.56 | 89% | 44% | 22% |
Data
| Columbia B | NYU A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| NYU B | Columbia C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Haverford | Rutgers B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Vassar | Penn A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale B | Princeton A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Princeton B | Penn B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers A | Bard A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Yale A | Columbia A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Cornell C | Yale C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |