Question
The experience described in this poem also closes the autobiographical story “The Country Mouse,” whose narrator wonders, “Why was I a human being?” This poem’s speaker perceives the title location to be “sliding / beneath a big black wave, / another, and another” and attributes an “oh! of pain” to a “foolish, timid woman” before realizing “that it was me: / my voice, in my mouth.” That speaker tells herself she will be seven in three days to stop “the sensation of falling off / the round, turning world.” In this poem from Geography III set in Worcester (“WUST-er”), Massachusetts, in 1918, the speaker sees photos of “the inside of a volcano / black, and full of ashes,” and of “black, naked women” whose “awful hanging breasts” horrify her. For 10 points, the speaker joins Aunt Consuelo at the dentist’s office and reads National Geographic in what poem by Elizabeth Bishop? ■END■
Summary
2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 22 | 55% | 0% | 14% | 115.50 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Eve Fleisig | Berkeley A | Michigan | 40 | 10 |
Will Orr | Yale B | Penn | 95 | 10 |
Andrew Ellis | Kentucky | Indiana | 97 | -5 |
Arthur Delot-Vilain | Yale A | Texas | 97 | 10 |
Connor Mayers | Maryland | Northwestern | 104 | -5 |
Richard Niu | Cornell A | Columbia B | 106 | 10 |
Tim Morrison | Stanford | Truman State | 110 | 10 |
Michael Hunding | Illinois | McGill | 122 | 10 |
Ashish Subramanian | Duke | Rutgers | 123 | 10 |
Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Cornell B | 124 | 10 |
Raymond Chen | Toronto A | North Carolina A | 135 | 10 |
Halle Friedman | NYU | Chicago B | 139 | -5 |
Eylon Caplan | Purdue | Vanderbilt | 141 | 10 |
Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins | Minnesota B | 143 | 10 |
Tiffany Zhou | Florida | Berkeley B | 150 | 0 |
Anuttam Ramji | Berkeley B | Florida | 150 | 0 |
Jason Hong | Brown | Columbia A | 150 | 0 |
Moses Kitakule | Columbia A | Brown | 150 | 0 |
Shiv Seshan | Chicago D | Toronto B | 150 | 0 |
Ben Wismath | Toronto B | Chicago D | 150 | 0 |
Kevin Park | Claremont Colleges | Ottawa | 150 | 0 |
Adrian Wong | Ottawa | Claremont Colleges | 150 | 0 |
Matthew Lehmann | WUSTL A | Harvard | 150 | 0 |
Jeffrey Fung | Harvard | WUSTL A | 150 | 0 |
Conor Thompson | Iowa State | Virginia | 150 | 0 |
Joseph Chambers | Virginia | Iowa State | 150 | 0 |
Jakob Myers | Indiana | Kentucky | 150 | 0 |
Henry Cafaro | Chicago B | NYU | 150 | 0 |
Ivvone Zhou | North Carolina B | Waterloo | 150 | 10 |
Chris Sims | Northwestern | Maryland | 150 | 0 |
Amith Punyala | WUSTL B | Arizona State | 150 | 0 |
Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State | WUSTL B | 150 | 0 |