Question

This author asked if a poem is “peculiar and general” in a manifesto that describes Phoebus’s death with the line “the death of one God is the death of all.” The speaker of a poem by this author encourages a woman to “take the moral law and make a nave of it” and describes how “fictive things / wink as they will.” (15[1])“Must Be Abstract” is a (-5[1])section of a manifesto by this author on creating (*) “supreme fiction,” an idea referenced in (10[1])his poem “A High-Toned Old Christian Woman.” The beauty (10[1])of “inflections” and “innuendos” are (10[1])mentioned in a poem by this author whose title creature whirls “in the autumn winds” and is (10[1])not noticed by the “thin men of Haddam.”For 10 points, name this American poet of “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.” ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Wallace Stevens
<Literature - American Literature>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Guy IndoranteIowa StateOhio6215
Andrew ZengStanfordNorth Carolina67-5
Shourjo GanguliOhio StateIowa8210
Teigue KellyPenn State AWUSTL9110
Biyang ZhangMichigan AMichigan B9610
Sai SubramanianCase WesternPenn State B11310
Jonathan ShaufNorth CarolinaStanford13610

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2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt)03/02/2024Y475%0%0%86.67
2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes)03/09/2024Y6100%17%17%96.67
2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL)03/09/2024Y3100%33%0%107.67