This poet describes, “Naked truth, busy ransacking/the earth’s wardrobe” and the dissatisfaction of the “Ideal Being” in “Plato, or Why.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this poet, who in one poem described the work that “someone” has to do after “all the cameras have left for another war.”
ANSWER: Wisława Szymborska (“vee-SWAH-vah shim-BOR-skah”)
[10e] Szymborska was a poet in this language, whose Three Bards are Zygmunt Krasiński (“ZIG-moont kra-SHIN-skee”), Juliusz Słowacki (“YOOL-yoosh swo-VAHT-skee”) and Adam Mickiewicz (“meets-K’YEH-veech”).
ANSWER: Polish
[10m] In memory of this event, Szymborska wrote a poem about a photograph that “halted” people “in life” and kept them “above the earth toward the earth.” A controversial poem written about this event asks a sequence of accusatory “who” statements.
ANSWER: September 11th attacks [accept 9/11]
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