Question
This author wrote a satirical "All-Purpose Poem for State Occasions" and often used the voice of the fictional poet Jason Strugnell. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this contemporary English poet, whose collections include Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis.
ANSWER: Wendy Cope
[10m] Cope's poem "Mr. Strugnell" parodies "Mr. Bleaney", a poem by this author. Another poem by this author concludes by meditating on "our almost-instinct" that "what will survive of us is love."
ANSWER: Philip Larkin [Philip Arthur Larkin] [The poem is An Arundel Tomb.]
[10e] Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis includes several parodies of this poet, such as commenting that "In April one seldom feels cheerful" in the "Waste Land Limericks."
ANSWER: T. S. Eliot [Thomas Stearns Eliot]
<Alexandra Hardwick , Literature - British poetry>
Summary
2023 NASAT | 06/17/2023 | Y | 9 | 18.89 | 100% | 67% | 22% |
Data
Illinois Orange | California | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Illinois White | Kentucky A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Illinois Blue | Missouri A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Arkansas | Kentucky B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Missouri B | Liberia | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Maryland Gold | PENNSYLVANIA | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Asia A | New Jersey A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Maryland Red | Ohio | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Virginia | New Jersey B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |