Question
Referring to God’s inscrutable ways, the speaker of this poem notes that man will never “understand / What awful brain compels His awful hand.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this sonnet that ends with the speaker pondering God’s decision “to make a poet black, and bid him sing!”
ANSWER: “Yet Do I Marvel”
[10e] “Yet Do I Marvel” is by Countee Cullen, a member of this New York-based cultural movement that also included his friends Alain Locke and Langston Hughes.
ANSWER: Harlem Renaissance
[10m] In an epigraph written for this author by Cullen, this poet questions God why “all flesh” bears the label: “Made to die!” A poem by this author ends with the question “Christ! What are patterns for?”
ANSWER: Amy Lowell [or Amy Lawrence Lowell; prompt on Lowell] (Cullen’s poem is “For Amy Lowell.” Lowell’s poem is “Patterns.”)
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 11 | 13.64 | 100% | 27% | 9% |
| 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 | 100% | 33% | 17% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 40% | 20% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 80% | 0% |
Data
| Sheffield | Bristol | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cambridge A | Warwick | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Imperial A | Durham A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Oxford C | Durham B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |