Question
The season of Light is contrasted with the “boundless…dominion of the Night” in a poem by this author that asks, “Must the morning always return? Will the despotism of the earth never cease?” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author of Hymns to the Night. This author’s title character Heinrich von Ofterdingen dreams about a blue flower, which in turn became a symbol of German Romanticism.
ANSWER: Novalis [or Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg]
[10h] NOTE TO PLAYERS: DESCRIPTION ACCEPTABLE. The last of Novalis’ six Hymns to the Night is titled for this sentiment. An American poem titled for this sentiment describes certain events as carpenters who consider “which tools” but “never ask why build.”
ANSWER: “Longing for Death” [or “Wanting to Die”; or “Sehnsucht nach dem Tode”; accept reasonable equivalents; prompt on longing or wanting or Sehnsucht; prompt on death or suicide or Tode] (“Wanting to Die” is by Anne Sexton, who symbolized suicides as carpenters.)
[10e] While a student at the University of Jena (“YAY-nah”), Novalis was a student of this author of “Ode to Joy” and the play The Robbers.
ANSWER: Friedrich Schiller [or Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller]
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