Question
In one poem, the speaker thinks of one of these objects “upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these objects. In a Joyce Kilmer poem, the speaker notes that “poems are made by fools like” him, “but only God can make” these objects.
ANSWER: trees
[10h] This other poet described a “forest that was empty all these days” in the poem “The Trees.” This author’s partner Michelle Cliff partly inspired a collection which includes “(The Floating Poem, Unnumbered).”
ANSWER: Adrienne Rich [or Adrienne Cecile Rich] (The collection is Twenty-One Love Poems.)
[10e] Winter Trees is a posthumously published volume of this author who wrote the collection Ariel, which contains the poem “Daddy.”
ANSWER: Sylvia Plath
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Summary
| 2023 ILLIAC (Cornell) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| 2023 ILLIAC (Mainsite) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 8 | 16.25 | 100% | 63% | 0% |
Data
| Chicago A | WUSTL | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Purdue B | Missouri | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Purdue A | Ohio State A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Ohio State B | Chicago D | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago C | Ohio State C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Chicago B | Purdue C | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Michigan A | SIUE A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Michigan B | SIUE B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |