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The speaker finds this person’s bones “Enlisted in a cramped necropolis” and his “speckled stone askew by an iron fence” in the poem “Electra on Azalea Path.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this person who titles a poem in which he is called “Marble-heavy, a bag full of God,” and a “panzer-man” in contrast to the speaker, who “may be a bit of a Jew.”
ANSWER: Sylvia Plath’s father [or Otto Emil Plath; accept “Daddy”; prompt on father or dad by asking “whose father/dad?”; reject “Ted Hughes”; reject “Plath” alone]
[10h] “A blue sky out of the Oresteia / Arches above” the speaker in this poem, in which Plath tells her father that he is as “pithy and historical as the Roman Forum” and opens, “I shall never get you put together entirely.”
ANSWER: “The Colossus”
[10e] The speaker dreams that she is Oedipus while watching these animals in Plath’s “The Eye-Mote.” One of these animals “must think it queer” to do the title action in Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.”
ANSWER: horses
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Syracuse+RochesterCornell MATLAB1001020
Cornell RRIT10101030