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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Summary
| 2024 ACF Winter at Clemson | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 15.00 | 88% | 38% | 25% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 18.57 | 100% | 57% | 29% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 15.56 | 100% | 33% | 22% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 17.14 | 100% | 29% | 43% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at UBC | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
Data
| Ohio State C (DII) | CWRU D (DII) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Ohio State A (UG) | Kenyon A (UG) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Pitt B (UG) | Michigan A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan B | Pitt A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Michigan D (DII) | Michigan State B (UG) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Kenyon B (DII) | Michigan State C (UG) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| CWRU C (UG) | Ohio State B (DII) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |