Question
This form is called the “great democratizer of poetic speech” in “The Rhapsodic Fallacy,” a Mary Kinzie essay that helped kick off a movement opposed to it. For 10 points each:
[10e] What poetic style was eschewed by the New Formalists? Robert Frost supposedly compared it to “playing tennis without a net” since it features non-metrical, non-rhyming lines.
ANSWER: free verse [or verse libre]
[10m] Annie Finch, who wrote about the “metrical code” of free verse, collected formalist poetry by women in a book titled for this sort of thing. An Emily Dickinson poem notes how “after great pain,” a “formal” one of these things comes.
ANSWER: formal feelings [accept “After great pain, a formal feeling comes –” or A Formal Feeling Comes: Poems in Form by Contemporary Women]
[10h] This lecture compares the author’s youthful formalism to “asbestos gloves” that let her handle materials she “couldn’t pick up barehanded.” This lecture casts “seeing with fresh eyes” as an “act of survival” for women poets.
ANSWER: “When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision” [or “Writing as Re-Vision”] (by Adrienne Rich)
<JB, American Literature>
Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 16.00 | 87% | 73% | 0% |
Data
| Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | The Oldest Men in the World | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | Lisan al-Quib | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | var merchants | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Les Missourables | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| The Dyatlov Passement incident | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | The Jeam Team | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| We Need New Names | Punished "Venom" BHSU | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| The Empire Bikes Back | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| BHSU B | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |