Question
Answer the following about the poet and playwright Xavier Villaurrutia (“vee-ya-oo-ROO-tee-ah”), for 10 points each.
[10e] This feeling is called “a secret, a torment, a doubt, a questioning” in Villaurrutia’s poem “Nuestro [this feeling].” Twenty poems about this feeling precede a “Song of Despair” in a Pablo Neruda collection.
ANSWER: love [or amor; accept “Nuestro amor” or “Our Love”; accept Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair or Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada]
[10h] This student of Villaurrutia wrote the essay “Hieroglyphs of Desire” about his work. This author’s poem Blanco, written in Delhi, was intended to be published as a scroll of differently-colored sections split between the page’s left and right sides.
ANSWER: Octavio Paz
[10m] Villaurrutia’s major poetry collection is titled Nostalgia for this noun. The line “From the icy niche where men placed you” opens the first of a series of sonnets titled for this noun and dedicated to Romelio Ureta.
ANSWER: death [or muerte; accept Sonnets of Death or Sonetos de la Muerte; accept Nostalgia for Death or Nostalgia por la muerte] (Sonnets of Death is by Gabriela Mistral.)
<Chicago A, World Literature>
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