Question
In a discussion of alliteration, this poet quoted a line by Robert Penn Warren about “The bear’s tongue, pink as a baby’s, out-crisps to the curled tip, / [which] bleeds the black blood of the blueberry.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this poet who asked, “What is the difference between a stone and a rock?” in an analysis of sound in A Poetry Handbook. This poet wrote, “You do not have to be good,” in the opening of the poem “Wild Geese.”
ANSWER: Mary Oliver [or Mary Jane Oliver]
[10e] Victor Shklovsky wrote, “art exists to make the stone stony,” in “Art as Technique,” part of his Theory of this form. A type of poetry named for this form is contrasted with verse due to its use of paragraphs and lack of meter.
ANSWER: prose [accept prose poetry; accept Theory of Prose]
[10m] This writer rebutted George Berkeley’s theory of immaterialism by kicking a stone and declaring, “I refute it thus,” an incident described by a friend in a tour to the Hebrides with this author.
ANSWER: Samuel Johnson [or Dr. Samuel Johnson]
<CM, American Literature>
Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | Premiere | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 50% | 100% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University | Premiere | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 33% | 33% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges | Premiere | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Indiana | Premiere | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 60% | 20% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at RIT | Premiere | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL | Premiere | Y | 3 | 26.67 | 100% | 100% | 67% |
Data
| I will play anything with a buzzer in front of me | Auxiliary Lofthouse Cookie University | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |