Question
The speaker asks if it was “So very hard to die” in a poem in which this figure is asked to stand “Flame-capped, and shout for me,” titled for this figure “in the Trench.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this mythological figure whose mother “of the shining breasts / Cried out in dismay” in a W. H. Auden poem about his shield. This man kills Hector in The Iliad.
ANSWER: Achilles [accept “Achilles in the Trench” or “The Shield of Achilles”]
[10m] The title man “survives among hills” while “the dust of Achilles and Cuchulain itches” in this author’s poem “Dick Straightup.” This poet described a “hot stink of fox” in “The Thought-Fox,” part of the collection The Hawk in the Rain.
ANSWER: Ted Hughes [or Edward James Hughes]
[10h] This poet mythologized David Beckham as Achilles in a poem about Beckham’s Achilles tendon injury. Famous men’s female counterparts narrate several dramatic monologues in this poet’s collection The World’s Wife.
ANSWER: Carol Ann Duffy
<CM, British Literature>
Summary
| 2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 7 | 15.71 | 100% | 57% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 26.00 | 100% | 100% | 60% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 0% | 25% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 20% | 80% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
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