Question
In a poem, a man with this profession dreams that a nighttime carriage ride takes him to the battleship Sevastopol, whose crew forces him to operate “the device that is used to power naval ships.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Certain objects are called “so heavy they should be rushed / to Padua’s mineralogical institute for analysis” in a poem that centers on “a father-in-law and a son-in-law” with what profession?
ANSWER: composer [prompt on musician]
[10e] Tomas Tranströmer's poem “The Sorrow Gondola (no. 2)” imagines this composer and his father-in-law visiting the Grand Canal. This composer called poetry a “lonely, sullen sister” in his essay “The Artwork of the Future.”
ANSWER: Richard Wagner [or Wilhelm Richard Wagner]
[10m] A section of this long Tranströmer poem tells the story of an unnamed composer who keeps writing music even after suffering a stroke. This poem, which is titled for a sea, begins “It was before the time of radio masts.”
ANSWER: Baltics [or Östersjöar] (Tranströmer suffered a stroke himself 16 years after writing Baltics. After a protracted convalescence, he then published The Sorrow Gondola.)
<Henry Goff, European Literature>
Summary
| 2023 Chicago Open | 08/05/2023 | Y | 9 | 15.56 | 67% | 89% | 0% |
Data
| BHSU | Evans Hall destruction awaiters | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Hang et al., Robert Browning | Teach Us to Outgrow Our Ladness | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Team Name Think Detail | I prefer really not to speak. If I speak I’m in big trouble | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| The Plague (anime)" was redirected to: "Oran High School Host Club | I would prefer not to | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| The anti-STOON-dahl cabal (the tall Keyal et al.) | In Search of Things Past | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| The Canadians | Romanos IV Diogenes’ Macaroni Grill | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| remembrance of lost time | The Catastrophic Implosion of Packet Sub | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Curse you, Periplus the Platypus! | wave2: trimming membership codes 9655377758gp | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Saint Peter Andre 3000 | [moderator voice] yes that is so tenpointscore! is your team feeling bonuspilled? | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |