Question

A poem titled for this time period begins with the word “POLY·PHILO·PROGENITIVE.” A poem partly titled for this time period which opens with the command, “break loose, like the chinook salmon jumping and falling back,” is by Robert Lowell. The final line of a poem titled for this (15[1])time period was used for a Helen Vendler book about its author’s longer poems. A woman dreams of going to (*) “Silent Palestine” in a poem titled for this time period which ends after describing “flocks of pigeons” sinking “on extended wings.” The line “Death is the mother of beauty” is from a poem titled for this time period which begins by describing “Complacencies of the peignoir.” For 10 points, a poem by Wallace Stevens describes a woman not going to church during what title time period? ■END■

ANSWER: Sunday morning [prompt on Sunday or morning; accept “Waking Early Sunday Morning”] (The lead-in is “Mr. Eliot’s Sunday Morning Service” by T.S. Eliot.)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Vedul PalavajjhalaWUSTLMissouri4715

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2023 ILLIAC (Mainsite)2023-10-21Y1100%100%0%47.00