In an Edwin Thumboo poem, this character is puzzled by a “powerful creature of land and sea” that is “half-beast, half-fish.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this character, who hears his lover’s name “in every gull's outcry” in a poem ending “The classics can console. But not enough.”
ANSWER: Ulysses [or Odysseus; accept “Ulysses by the Merlion”] (The second poem is “Sea Grapes” by Derek Walcott.)
[10e] Edwin Thumboo’s “Ulysses by the Merlion” is set in this country, which is also the setting of Kevin Kwan’s novel Crazy Rich Asians.
ANSWER: Singapore [or Republic of Singapore]
[10h] Singaporean Malay poets often use this poetic form, whose two parts appear unrelated. This form’s berkait (“bare-KAH-eet”) type, in which two lines of each stanza are repeated in the next, was used in “My Brother At 3 AM” by Natalie Diaz.
ANSWER: pantun [or pantun berkait; or pantoum]
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