Question

This is the second title quality of a man in a poem that repeats the line “Daybreak and a candle-end.” In a poem containing this quality in its title that was based on a Pierre de Ronsard sonnet, the speaker notes how “Love fled… and hid his face amid a crowd of stars.” A line about people with this quality is followed by one about people without this quality “in one another’s arms, birds in the trees.” (15[1])The speaker of one poem notes how unless a (*) “soul clap its hands and sing,” a person with this quality is like “a tattered coat upon a (10[1])stick.” (10[2])A line about people with this quality was used to title a novel about Llewellyn Moss and Anton (10[1])Chigurh (“Shi-gurr”) by Cormac (10[1])McCarthy. (10[2])For 10 points, the opening line of W.B. Yeats’ poem “Sailing to Byzantium” states, “That is no country for” what sort of men? ■END■

ANSWER: being old [or aged; accept “The Wild Old Wicked Man”; accept “When You Are Old”; accept “that is no country for old men”]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Nolan JonesPurdue AOhio State A7615
Neal JoshiWUSTLChicago A10310
Braden BoothMissouriPurdue B10410
Yashwanth BajjiMichigan ASIUE A10410
Henry CafaroChicago BPurdue C12210
Jacob GoodsonOhio State CChicago C12510
Rohan NavaneethaOhio State BChicago D12610
Ryan HappelSIUE BMichigan B12610

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2023 ILLIAC (Cornell)2023-10-21Y4100%25%0%115.75
2023 ILLIAC (Mainsite)2023-10-21Y8100%13%0%110.75