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This type of location “swears by bread and by its fist” and “bears all of us on its back” in the poem “Moonlight Sonata.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this general type of location that titles a poem in which the addressee is told “Now that you’ve wasted your life here, in this small corner, / you’ve destroyed it everywhere in the world.”
ANSWER: the city [accept “The City”] (“Moonlight Sonata” is by Yiannis Ritsos.)
[10e] Constantine Cavafy, the poet of “The City,” wrote “hope your road is a long one / full of adventure, full of discovery” in a poem titled for this island. A Homeric epic details Odysseus’s journey back to this island.
ANSWER: Ithaca [or Ithaka]
[10m] Cavafy asks why the emperor is “sitting enthroned at the city’s main gate” in this poem. The line “What are we waiting for, assembled in the forums?” begins this poem, which calls the title group “a kind of solution.”
ANSWER: Waiting for the Barbarians” [or “Perimenontas Tous Barbarous”]
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