Question
This author wrote about a “four-foot box, a foot for every year” for a figure who wore “a poppy bruise on his left temple” in a poem about his dead younger brother. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this poet of “Mid-Term Break,” who wrote “between my finger and my thumb, the squat pen rests” in his poem “Digging.” He also translated the word “hwaet” as “so” in his translation of Beowulf.
ANSWER: Seamus Heaney
[10e] Seamus Heaney lived in this country, which was also home to the poet who wrote “The Second Coming,” W.B. Yeats.
ANSWER: the Republic of Ireland [or Eire; accept Northern Ireland]
[10h] Heaney describes how these fruits made his “palms sticky as Bluebeards’” in a poem set in late August. The poem ends as a “rat-gray fungus” makes the “sweet flesh” of these fruits “go sour.”
ANSWER: blackberries [accept “Blackberry Picking”]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 9 | 11.11 | 89% | 0% | 22% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 8 | 21.25 | 100% | 88% | 25% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 13 | 16.15 | 92% | 46% | 23% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 14.44 | 100% | 22% | 22% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 6 | 36.67 | 183% | 100% | 83% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 16.67 | 100% | 56% | 11% |