Question
This poem’s fandom is evidenced by Edward Taylor’s “Funeral Poem” for his wife Elizabeth, in which he recalls how this poem’s lines “much perfumed her breath.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this 224 stanza poem written in common meter “fourteeners.” This colonial sleeper hit was the masterpiece of Michael Wigglesworth.
ANSWER: The Day of Doom [accept Doomsday Verses if Edward Taylor is in attendance] (The full title of Taylor’s poem is “A Funeral Poem Upon the Death of My Ever Endeared and Tender Wife.”)
[10e] Taylor and a contemporary “Bay” book used Wigglesworthian “common meter” in their metrical adaptations of the 150 hymns from this Biblical book attributed to King David.
ANSWER: the Book of Psalms [or the Psalter; or Tehillim; accept Bay Psalm Book]
[10m] In a twist on a Day of Doom image, this poem depicts saints “to windows run” to see its speaker “leaning against the – Sun.” In this Emily Dickinson poem, the speaker states “Inebriate of air – am I – / And Debauchee of Dew.”
ANSWER: “I taste a liquor never brewed” [or poem 207; or poem 214]
<Literature - American Literature - Poetry>
Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 60% | 40% |
Data
| Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |