Question
The speaker of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s poem “Underwear” assures its addressee “There’s plenty of time my darling / are we not still young and easy?” after quoting this poem’s title. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this poem that offers assurances like “though they sink through the sea they shall rise again” and “though lovers be lost love shall not.”
ANSWER: “And death shall have no dominion”
[10e] “Underwear” repeatedly references and teases poems by this author of “And death shall have no dominion,” such as in its exhortation, “do not go naked into that good night.”
ANSWER: Dylan Thomas
[10m] Ferlinghetti’s poem “Assassination Raga” repeats a line by Thomas about “the force that drives through the fuse” described by this word. Thomas’s poem “Fern Hill” repeats, “time held me [this word] and dying.”
ANSWER: green
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Summary
2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | Premiere | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University | Premiere | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges | Premiere | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
2023 ARCADIA at Duke | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
2023 ARCADIA at Emory | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 75% | 75% | 0% |
2023 ARCADIA at Imperial | Imperial | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
2023 ARCADIA at Indiana | Premiere | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 80% | 60% | 20% |
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
2023 ARCADIA Online | Maryland, Online | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
2023 ARCADIA at RIT | Premiere | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
2023 ARCADIA at Texas | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 67% | 0% | 0% |
2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL | Premiere | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
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Birmingham | Bristol | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Cambridge B | Cambridge A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Durham | Edinburgh | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Imperial A | Imperial B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Warwick | Oxford | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |