“The Eve of St. Agnes” - 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU

Question

This poem begins and ends with references to an elderly beadsman, who appears nowhere else in the narrative. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this John Keats poem in which Madeline falls asleep on the title night so she can see her future husband in her dream.

ANSWER: “The Eve of St. Agnes”

[10h] While Madeline is dreaming in “The Eve of St. Agnes,” her lover picks up a lute and recites this poem by the medieval poet Alain Chartier in which the speaker eavesdrops on a conversation between a lady and her lover.

ANSWER: La Belle Dame sans Mercy (Keats used it as the basis for his own poem “La Belle Dame sans Merci.”)

[10e] After an encounter with one of these animals, the speaker of a Keats ode wonders, “Was it a vision, or a waking dream?… Do I wake or sleep?”

ANSWER: nightingale [accept “Ode to a Nightingale”]

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Summary


2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley	01/27/2024	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial	01/27/2024	Y	8	10.00	88%	13%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU	01/27/2024	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU	01/27/2024	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ MIT	01/27/2024	Y	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska	01/27/2024	Y	6	8.33	83%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt	01/27/2024	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


Liberty B	Maryland C	0	0	10	10
UNC B	Maryland A	10	0	10	20