Question

The speaker of an Ogden Nash poem justifies avoiding one of these places by saying their life is like a “brief…spell of summer weather.” The speaker admires the company of songbirds like a “Bobolink” and “Orchard” in an Emily Dickinson poem titled for one of these places. In a poem, a woman who decided against going to one of these places is content with "wakened birds / Before they fly,” and hears a voice that speaks of “that tomb in (*) Palestine.” A woman asks herself why she should “give her bounty to her dead” to justify why she isn’t going to one of these places. Because she isn’t at one of these places, a woman in a poem finds the time to contemplate the “complacencies of the peignoir.” For 10 points, a skeptical woman in a Wallace Stevens poem has decided against going to what place on the title “Sunday Morning”? ■END■

ANSWER: church [or “I Didn’t Go to Church Today”; or “Some Keep the Sabbath going to Church—”]
<Darren Petrosino, American Literature>
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Tadeusz HoromanskiFSU BFlorida A15110
Sean FarrellNorth FloridaFlorida B15110

Summary

2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard)10/21/2023Y3100%0%0%119.00
2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite)10/21/2023Y7100%29%0%113.14
2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal)10/28/2023Y2100%0%0%126.50
2023 Penn Bowl (South Central)10/28/2023Y3100%0%0%129.00
2023 Penn Bowl (UK)10/28/2023Y5100%0%0%128.80
2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo10/28/2023Y4100%0%0%120.50
2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC10/28/2023Y3100%0%0%134.67
2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU10/28/2023Y2100%0%0%151.00