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A 1931 Giuseppe Ungaretti collection titled for this emotion was expanded from an earlier collection whose title poem reads, “He promptly sets out / again / like an / old salt / who has survived shipwreck.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this emotion, which is called a “daughter of Elysium” in a Friedrich Schiller ode best known for its use in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
ANSWER: joy [accept happiness or merriness or other synonyms; accept “Ode to Joy” or “An die Freude”; accept L’Allegria or L'Allegria di Naufragi]
[10h] Ungaretti’s “Joy of Shipwrecks” was influenced by the line “it is sweet to shipwreck in such a sea,” which ends this Giacomo Leopardi poem set on a “lonely hillside.”
ANSWER: “The Infinite” [or “L’infinito”]
[10m] Ungaretti took inspiration from the typographical experiments of this poet, who wrote “Never / Even if thrown in eternal / circumstances / from the depth of a shipwreck” to open “A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.”
ANSWER: Stéphane Mallarmé [or Étienne Mallarmé]
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