Question

This author wrote about a “man with clouded eyes” that “picks up the rain / and plucks the first line” of a poem. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author of “Map of the New World.” This author wrote about the blind poet Seven Seas in an epic poem that also features the fishermen Hector and Achille competing for Helen’s affection.
ANSWER: Derek Walcott [or Derek Alton Walcott]
[10e] Derek Walcott’s Omeros is loosely based on this Homeric epic, which takes place before the Odyssey.
ANSWER: the Iliad
[10h] After observing “a schooner beating up the Caribbean for home” that “could be Odysseus,” the speaker of this Walcott poem reflects on how “the ancient war / between obsession and responsibility / will never finish.”
ANSWER: Sea Grapes
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2024 ACF Winter at Clemson2024-11-16Y815.0088%38%25%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh2024-11-16Y718.57100%57%29%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern2024-11-16Y915.56100%33%22%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State2024-11-16Y717.14100%29%43%
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Haverford ALehigh A1010020
Johns Hopkins BPenn State B010010
Johns Hopkins APenn A10101030
Penn State ARowan A1010020
Rutgers CRutgers A010010
Columbia ABard A10101030
Penn BColumbia B010010