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This poet describes the evening star as a “young emerald” whose light allows those who “know the ultimate Plato” to tranquilize the “torments of confusion.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this poet of “Homunculus et la Belle Étoile.” He calls Venus a “furious star” burning in “the high west” in a poem that states, “I wish that I might be a thinking stone.”
ANSWER: Wallace Stevens (The poem is “Le Monocle de Mon Oncle.”)
[10e] Stevens’s “Martial Cadenza,” a poem about this war, wonders what the evening star has to do with “the blank skies over England” and “the German camps” it lit. Randall Jarrell’s “Ball Turret Gunner” dies in this war.
ANSWER: World War II [or Second World War or WWII or World War 2]
[10m] A poem set in this state, where Stevens spent most of his life, says the evening star is “wholly an inner light.” “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” describes a figure who “rode over” this state in a “glass coach.”
ANSWER: Connecticut [or CT] (The first poem is “An Ordinary Evening in New Haven.”)
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Cornell ABerkeley A001010
Columbia AChicago C1010020
MichiganChicago D0101020
IllinoisClaremont Colleges001010
WUSTL BCornell B0000
KentuckyFlorida010010
HarvardDuke0101020
North Carolina AIowa State001010
RutgersJohns Hopkins010010
Yale BMaryland001010
OttawaMinnesota A0101020
Chicago BMinnesota B010010
NYUWUSTL A0101020
NorthwesternPurdue0000
PennTruman State0000
South CarolinaArizona State010010
StanfordVanderbilt0101020
TexasChicago A0000
Toronto ABerkeley B010010
WaterlooToronto B010010
Yale AGeorgia Tech001010