Question
A poem about this phenomenon asks, “Would I live my life over again?” and responds, “Yes. Given half a chance. Yes.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this phenomenon that titles a poem stating, “Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree / If mankind perished utterly.” An Edith Sitwell poem titled for this phenomenon states, “Dark as the world of man, black as our loss.”
ANSWER: rain [or “There Will Come Soft Rains”; or “Still Falls the Rain”]
[10h] “Rain” is a poem by this author, who recalled a man shouting his “dead wife’s name from hilltops around Perugia” in his poem “Grief.” He described “wishing it were tomorrow already” in his poem “Tomorrow.”
ANSWER: Raymond Carver [or Raymond Clevie Carver Jr.]
[10e] Carver described how this word “grows dark” and “begins to eat” in a poem titled for this word. A Carver story is titled “What We Talk About When We Talk About [this word].”
ANSWER: love [or “This Word Love”; or “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love”]
<Kevin Wang, American Literature>
Summary
| 2024 Penn Bowl CWRU | 11/02/2024 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl UNC | 10/26/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |