Question
In a putative invocation of Plato’s cave allegory, this poem describes a “legion of wild thoughts” that “rest… in the still cave of the witch Poesy” and “seek… ghosts of all things that are.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this Percy Shelley poem that opens by comparing the “feeble brook” of “human thought” to “the everlasting universe of things,” which is said to “flow through the mind” and “roll its rapid waves.”
ANSWER: “Mont Blanc: Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni”
[10h] In a scene from this poem by a different author, the speaker is said to have “grieved” after having “first beheld” Mont Blanc, since “a soulless image on the eye” had “usurped upon a living thought / That never more could be.”
ANSWER: The Prelude, Book VI (by William Wordsworth)
[10e] One of seven spirits declares Mont Blanc “the monarch of mountains” by virtue of its “throne of rocks,” “robe of clouds,” and “diadem of snow” at the beginning of this author’s verse drama Manfred.
ANSWER: Lord Byron [or George Gordon, Lord Byron]
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Summary
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| BHSU | Evans Hall destruction awaiters | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Teach Us to Outgrow Our Ladness | Hang et al., Robert Browning | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Team Name Think Detail | I prefer really not to speak. If I speak I’m in big trouble | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| The Plague (anime)" was redirected to: "Oran High School Host Club | I would prefer not to | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| In Search of Things Past | The anti-STOON-dahl cabal (the tall Keyal et al.) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| The Canadians | Romanos IV Diogenes’ Macaroni Grill | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| remembrance of lost time | The Catastrophic Implosion of Packet Sub | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Curse you, Periplus the Platypus! | wave2: trimming membership codes 9655377758gp | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| [moderator voice] yes that is so tenpointscore! is your team feeling bonuspilled? | Saint Peter Andre 3000 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |