Question
This figure is described as a “butterfly’s flicker, a wisp of swan’s down” in a poem that repeats the line “The nightingales won’t let you sleep in Platres.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this figure. In that poem, Teucer laments that the Trojan War was fought “all for an empty tunic, all for” this wife of Menelaus.
ANSWER: Helen of Troy [or Helen of Sparta]
[10m] That poem, “Helen,” is by this author. A poem by this author divided into 24 sections begins, “The angel — three years we waited for him.”
ANSWER: Giorgios Seferis [or George Seferis; or Georgios Seferiadis] (The poem is “Mythistorema.”)
[10h] An aged Helen begs the listener “Don’t go. Stay a little longer,” in the poem “Helen” from this author’s collection The Fourth Dimension. The line “Let me come with you” repeats in this author’s poem Moonlight Sonata.
ANSWER: Yiannis Ritsos [or Yannis Ritsos]
<Literature - European Literature - Poetry>
Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| BHSU Rebirth | BHSU ReFantazio | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |