Question

This word titles a poem in which the speaker proclaims that “living matter” has become a “block of granite” in the “hazy Sahara,” “omitted from the map.” In one poem titled for this word, the speaker compares himself to the “king of a rainy country;” (15[1])in another, “Anguish” plants a “black flag” on the speaker at a time when the “low, heavy sky weighs like a lid.” A collection that consists of fifty prose poems inspired by Gaspard de la Nuit, including (*) “Let’s Beat Up the Poor!”, is titled for this quality “of (-5[1])Paris.” (10[2]-5[1])A sequence of four poems titled for this word appears in an 1857 collection, in which it is the first word in the title of the section that follows an address to the “hypocrite reader.” (-5[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name this term derived from humoral theory that Charles Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil opposes to the “ideal.” (10[1]) (0[1])■END■

ANSWER: spleen [or “le spleen”; reject synonyms such as “boredom” or “dissatisfaction”]
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Ned TagtmeierChicago AChicago B+4415
Will AlstonAmartya Senpai Notice MeMojo Shojo92-5
Taylor HarveyMojo ShojoAmartya Senpai Notice Me9310
Mitch McCullarIllinois A+Epic Games93-5
Chris RayOSUMaryland B-9310
Andrew SalijNorthwesternMichigan128-5
Vedul PalavajjhalaWUSTLPurdue13110
Connor ThompsonMichiganNorthwestern14810
Jason AsherEpic GamesIllinois A+1490

Summary

2023 BHSU @ Northwestern02/25/2023Y683%17%50%101.80
2023 BHSU @ Maryland03/11/2023Y3100%0%67%126.00
2023 BHSU @ Berkeley03/18/2023Y3100%0%0%110.67
2023 BHSU @ Yale04/08/2023Y3100%0%0%119.33
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield04/15/2023Y2100%0%0%113.00
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo04/15/2023Y3100%0%0%107.00