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A poem set in this city depicts flags put up “to make them think that we're happy.” In a poem titled for this city, the speaker states, “I don’t walk, I fly, I become another, transfigured.” (15[1])The speaker envisions his voice changing “to the most terrible of voices or silence” in a poem in which his “blood be forgotten” if he forgets this city. The poet states, (15[1])“You killed me ... and I (*) forgot, (10[2])like you, to die” in a poem titled for this city by the author of Memory for Forgetfulness. (10[1])This city is built “In England's green and pleasant Land” (10[1])in a poem describing it “among these dark Satanic Mills.” The line “and did those feet in ancient time” partly titles a poem named for this city by William Blake. For 10 points, name this capital written about by Yehuda Amichai and other Hebrew-language poets. ■END■

ANSWER: Jerusalem [or Yerushalayim]
<Noah Sheidlower, World Literature>
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2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard)10/21/2023Y3100%0%0%105.33
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