Question

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” 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 pains” the speaker, (-5[1])who at the end of that work asks “do I wake or sleep?” One of these (10[1])poems about a “still unravish’d bride of quietness” declares “beauty is truth, truth (10[1])beauty.” (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name this set of British Romantic poems addressed “to a Nightingale” (10[1])and (10[1])“on a Grecian Urn.” ■END■ (10[3])

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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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Elijah O'Sick JohnsonBinghamton CU of Rochester B65-5
Anna KuangCornell ECornell B8110
Alec RisoCornell DCornell G9410
Steven VicoriaBinghamton AESF9510
Alec WestSyracuseBinghamton B9810
Will HooverRIT BPenn State10910
Pranaav SenthilkumarCornell CCornell F11010
Danny CutbillRIT AU of Rochester A11510
Annabelle FordCornell ARIT C11510
Gary WangU of Rochester BBinghamton C11510

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2024 ACF Fall at CornellfallY9100%0%11%103.56
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio StatefallY8100%0%38%90.00
2024 ACF Fall at WashingtonfallY650%0%17%99.67
2024 ACF Fall at GeorgiafallY1283%0%67%109.00
2024 ACF Fall at North CarolinafallY967%0%33%100.33
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont CollegesfallY5100%0%60%103.60
2024 ACF Fall at RutgersfallY8100%0%50%106.38
2024 ACF Fall at IllinoisfallY989%0%33%90.63