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, who at the end of that work asks “do I wake or sleep?” (10[1])One of these poems about a “still unravish’d bride of quietness” (-5[1])declares “beauty is truth, truth beauty.” (10[2]-5[1])For 10 points, name this set of British Romantic (-5[1])poems (10[1])addressed “to a Nightingale” and “on a Grecian Urn.” (10[1])■END■ (10[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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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Malachi LedfordTusculumAppalachian State B7810
Nathan SprouseVirginia Tech ALiberty C89-5
Max KhurzmanUNC ALiberty B9510
Samuel LiWilliam & MaryDuke A95-5
Michael EngUNC DVirginia Tech B9510
Carly HemaniJames Madison AJames Madison B104-5
Mary WellsVCUVirginia10510
Ethan RehderDuke BUNC C11410
Cameron WiliamsAppalachian State ANC State11510

Summary

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