“Lady Lazarus” - Southern California

Question

When poked and stirred, the speaker of this poem is found to contain “A cake of soap, / A wedding ring,” and “A gold filling.” For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this poem, in which “a smiling woman” who is “only thirty,” proclaims “I rise with my red hair and / I eat men like air.”

ANSWER: “Lady Lazarus”

[10e] This author of “Lady Lazarus” described “a man in black with a Meinkampf look” in the poem “Daddy.”

ANSWER: Sylvia Plath

[10h] Ten years after Plath’s death, Robin Morgan accused this man of “the murder of Sylvia Plath” in the poem “Arraignment.” This author’s poem “The Thought-Fox” appears in his collection The Hawk in the Rain.

ANSWER: Ted Hughes [or Edward James Hughes]

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Summary


Northern California	Main	Y	4	12.50	75%	25%	25%
Southern California	Main	Y	7	11.43	86%	14%	14%
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	4	27.50	100%	75%	100%
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	9	20.00	89%	56%	56%
Florida	Main	Y	4	5.00	50%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	11	20.00	100%	46%	55%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	18.89	89%	56%	44%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	12	13.33	83%	17%	33%
Midwest	Main	Y	9	17.78	89%	33%	56%
North	Main	Y	4	7.50	50%	25%	0%
Northeast	Main	Y	12	16.67	83%	33%	50%
Pacific	Main	Y	8	18.75	100%	38%	50%
South Central	Main	Y	6	13.33	83%	33%	17%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	20.00	92%	50%	58%
UK (North)	UK	Y	5	18.00	80%	20%	80%
UK (South)	UK	Y	7	8.57	43%	0%	43%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	10.00	60%	20%	20%

Data


UC Irvine	UCLA B	0	10	0	10
UCLA D	Claremont B	0	10	0	10
UCLA F	Claremont C	0	0	0	0
UCLA C	UCSD A	0	10	0	10
UCSD B	USC A	0	10	0	10
UC Santa Barbara	USC B	10	10	10	30
UCLA A	UCLA E	0	10	0	10