Question
The preface to a posthumous 1920 collection declares that its subject is not Poetry, but war and this aspect of war, explaining that “the Poetry is in” this thing. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this concept described as “the truth untold” and “distilled” in the poem “Strange Meeting,” which goes on to state, “Now men will go content with what we spoiled.”
ANSWER: “the pity of war” [accept “the pity of war, the pity war distilled”]
[10e] This English poet of “Strange Meeting” asked, “What passing-bells for those who die as cattle?” in his poem “Anthem for Doomed Youth.”
ANSWER: Wilfred Owen [or Wilfred Edward Salter Owen]
[10m] This other poet used phrases like “Thu bist” and “Er war” to show the shared heritage of English and German in his 1915 poem “The Pity of It.” His earlier poem “The Man He Killed” was inspired by the Boer War.
ANSWER: Thomas Hardy
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 19 | 11.58 | 95% | 21% | 0% |
Data
| Cornell B | Arizona State | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Virginia | Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Brown | Chicago C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Illinois | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Waterloo | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell A | Chicago D | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Duke | NYU | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Georgia Tech | WUSTL B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins | Harvard | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Kentucky | Iowa State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina B | Michigan | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Claremont Colleges | Minnesota A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers | Minnesota B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Indiana | North Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Stanford | Penn | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Vanderbilt | Northwestern | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago A | Yale A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Purdue | Yale B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |