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
| Cambridge C | Cambridge B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Imperial B | KCL | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Oxford B | Kiel | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Oxford A | Edinburgh | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |