In a poem by the author of “God Has Pity on Kindergarten Children,” a shepherd who is one of these people searches for his goat as the narrator searches for his son on the mountain opposite. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these people. In another poem, the speaker repeatedly commands to “put it on record” that he is one of these people in between catalogues of his distinguishing features.
ANSWER: Arabs
[10m] The author of “An Arab Shepherd Is Searching for His Goat on Mount Zion,” Yehuda Amichai, was described as “a challenge to me” by this Palestinian poet, who repeated the refrain “I am an Arab” in his poem “Identity Card.”
ANSWER: Mahmoud Darwish
[10e] Amichai describes the Arab Shepherd’s hands as these features, which title a Darwish collection about how one of these features “Dies of Thirst.” Langston Hughes wrote a poem in which “The Negro Speaks of” examples of these features like the Congo and the Euphrates.
ANSWER: a river [accept “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” or A River Dies of Thirst]
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