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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Virginia Tech BAppalachian State A010010
Appalachian State BWilliam & Mary010010
James Madison ADuke B010010
Liberty BJames Madison B0101020
NC StateUNC C010010
Liberty ATusculum1010020
UNC AUNC D10101030
UNC BVirginia Tech A010010
VirginiaDuke A010010