Question
The speaker of a poem in this collection compares his mouth to “a spider, trying to hide” after “marking the atlas of your body / with crosses of fire.” Another poem in this collection implores, “let me remember you as you were before you existed,” and begins, “every day you play with the light of the universe.” The speaker thinks to write, “the night is starry / and the stars are blue and (*) shiver in the distance” in a poem in this collection that claims, “love is so short, forgetting is so long.” The title object’s “white hills, white thighs” open this collection’s first poem, “Body of a Woman.” The refrain “in you everything sank!” appears in this collection’s final poem, which follows “Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines.” For 10 points, name this collection of twenty-one romantic poems by Pablo Neruda. ■END■
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Bryan Ugaz | ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline | she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique | 28 | 15 |
Omkar Marathe | Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans | bingy academy | 28 | 15 |
King Vidor | In the Mood for Buzz | The cult of SGA | 29 | 15 |
Jason Hong | Madmen and Specialists | Social credit go vroom | 71 | -5 |
Yashwanth Bajji | Social credit go vroom | Madmen and Specialists | 72 | 15 |
Joel Miles | Paddington in Peru (2024) | Old and Young | 85 | 10 |
Summary
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 80.67 |
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 25% | 91.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 67% | 67% | 33% | 45.25 |
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 58.50 |
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 84.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 6 | 67% | 17% | 0% | 78.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 57.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 100% | 75% | 25% | 73.75 |
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 100% | 60% | 0% | 82.80 |
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 75% | 0% | 25% | 106.33 |
2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 67% | 33% | 33% | 75.00 |
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 133.00 |
2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 100% | 80% | 20% | 48.40 |