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One of these poems describes a figure who “dwells with Beauty Beauty that must die” and begins “no, no, go not to Lethe.” In another of these poems, the speaker compares the word “forlorn” (10[1])to “a bell to toll me back from thee” before declaring, “adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades.” At the beginning of one of these poems, a “drowsy numbness (10[1])pains” the speaker, who at the end of that work asks “do I wake or sleep?” One of these poems about a “still unravish’d bride of quietness” (-5[1])declares “beauty (10[1])is truth, truth beauty.” (10[1]-5[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name this set of British Romantic poems (-5[1])addressed “to a Nightingale” and “on a Grecian Urn.” ■END■ (10[3]0[1])

ANSWER: odes by John Keats [or John Keats’s odes; prompt on odes alone; prompt on Keats poems; prompt by asking “who wrote that poem?” on “Ode to Melancholy” or “Ode to a Nightingale” or “Ode on a Grecian Urn”] (The poem in the first line is “Ode on Melancholy”.)
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2024 ACF Fall at CornellfallY9100%0%11%103.56
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio StatefallY8100%0%38%90.00
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