Question

This author discussed how “an uncaught bird is ever hovering, hovering” in the third stanza of the poem “Song of the Universal,” which opens the section “Birds of Passage.” This poet wrote, “I hear bravuras of birds” and envisions “where the hummingbird shimmers” in a poem that states, “You will hardly know who I am or what I mean.” This poet envisioned “A thousand warbling echoes” in a poem by this author that opens (15[1])by describing the “musical shuttle” of a (*) mockingbird who longs for its mate. This poet wrote, “A shy and hidden bird is warbling a song” in a poem whose title objects, a star, and a bird are “twined (10[1])with the chant of my soul.” A “solitary” thrush “sings by himself a song” in a poem by this author in which the “great star early (10[1])droop'd (10[2])in the western sky in the night.” For 10 points, name this author of “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd.” ■END■

ANSWER: Walt Whitman [or Walter Whitman Jr.]
<Noah Sheidlower, American Literature>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Enoch Yuen3HK1MMOxford School for Quizness7315
Albery NyangLSESee it11110
Ben Russel JonesFour Times I Have Despised My SoulSorted13710
Ethan WebbThe Crying of Team 49Gressenheller A13810
Chris LevesleyLimp ChriskitSay it13810

Summary

2024 Penn Bowl UNC10/26/2024Y3100%0%33%135.67
2024 Penn Bowl Florida10/26/2024Y2100%0%50%150.00
2024 Penn Bowl Harvard10/26/2024Y475%0%25%122.00
2024 Penn Bowl UK10/26/2024Y5100%20%0%119.40
2024 Penn Bowl Berkeley11/02/2024Y2100%0%0%96.00
2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite11/02/2024Y3100%0%0%137.33
2024 Penn Bowl CWRU11/02/2024Y4100%0%25%132.00
2024 Penn Bowl Chicago11/02/2024Y8100%13%13%115.75
2024 Penn Bowl Texas11/02/2024Y250%50%50%71.00