Gabriela Mistral - 2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell

Question

The speaker of a poem by this author declares, “I feel my heart… melt like wax: my veins are slow oil and not wine.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this author who also wrote a poem after a man’s suicide that begins, “From that frozen niche where the men have put you, I will lower you down to the humble, sunny earth.”

ANSWER: Gabriela Mistral [or Lucila Godoy Alcayaga]

[10e] Mistral wrote a sequence of three poems in this genre partly titled for death. Those poems use the Petrarchan form of this poetic genre.

ANSWER: Petrarchan sonnets [or sonetos]

[10h] Another Mistral poem declares that this concept “shall not be an opiate… but a strong wine” and calls this concept “the shadow of God over the universe.”

ANSWER: beauty [or belleza] (The poem is “Decalogue of the Artist.”)

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Summary


2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley	01/27/2024	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell	01/27/2024	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU	01/27/2024	Y	8	10.00	75%	25%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota	01/27/2024	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska	01/27/2024	Y	6	15.00	83%	67%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers	01/27/2024	Y	5	14.00	100%	20%	20%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial	01/27/2024	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%

Data


Cornell A	Binghamton	10	10	0	20
Cornell B	Cornell C	10	10	10	30
RIT A	RIT B	0	10	0	10