Question
Description acceptable. This person exhorts “Rebel against the binding moon / And the parliament of the sky” in a poem that begins with the advice “find meat on bones.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name or describe this man who is described as “a cold kind man brave in his narrow pride” in the unfinished poem “Elegy,” which begins, “too proud to die; broken…he died.”
ANSWER: Dylan Thomas’s father [or David John Thomas; prompt on Thomas; prompt on the poet’s father by asking, “Whose father?”]
[10e] Thomas asks his father to “Curse, bless, me now” in this villanelle which implores, “Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
ANSWER: “Do not go gentle into that good night”
[10m] Thomas frequently uses this word to describe his father in “Elegy,” where this word and “unblessed” also describe “the darkest justice of death.” In “Do not go gentle into that good night,” body parts described by this adjective “could blaze like meteors and be gay.”
ANSWER: blind [accept “blind eyes”]
<Literature - British Literature - Poetry>
Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 0% | 33% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 80% | 20% | 20% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 0% | 33% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 0% | 20% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
Data
| Cry of the Common Loon | A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Stanford+ | Berkeley | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |