Question
Dorothy Parker said that she followed in the “exquisite” footsteps of this author “unhappily in my own horrible sneakers.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author of the collection Fatal Interview, who Parker said “made poetry seem so easy that we could all do it.” The speaker says, “heroes seek release / From dusty bondage into luminous air” in a sonnet by this author.
ANSWER: Edna St. Vincent Millay (The sonnet is “Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.”)
[10e] Dorothy Parker wrote about how one of these objects “gives a single light” in her poem “Interview.” In Millay’s poem “First Fig,” one of these objects “burns at both ends” and “will not last the night.”
ANSWER: candles
[10m] Parker wrote a poem about a “Perfect” one of these objects, which sometimes title a Millay poem that describes “the air incarnadine.” These objects are repeated in a line from Gertrude Stein’s poem “Sacred Emily.”
ANSWER: roses [accept “One Perfect Rose” or “No rose that in a garden ever grew” or “a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose”]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Winter at Clemson | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 15.56 | 100% | 33% | 22% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Clemson | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 20.00 | 100% | 14% | 86% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State | 2024-11-16 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Ohio State A (UG) | Michigan A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |