Question

Olwyn, the sister-in-law of a woman born to this family, described a “myth” of this family perpetuated by the epistle collection Letters Home. A poem recalls a woman in this family helping her children sing, “Thor is angry; boom boom boom!” during a hurricane. A poem addressed to a man from this family is titled for a god created via Ouija board and describes him as “pithy and historical as the Roman Forum.” (10[1])A member of this family (10[1])is told, “no frown of mine / will betray the company I keep” (10[1])in a poem inspired by a Giorgio de Chirico painting, “The Disquieting Muses.” The speaker tells a man in this family, “I thought (10[1])every German was you” in a poem (10[1])that (10[1])imagines (10[1])him as “a man in black with a (10[1])Meinkampf look.” For 10 points, (10[1])what family’s patriarch Otto titles his (10[1])daughter’s poem “Daddy”? ■END■

ANSWER: Plath family [or the Plaths; accept family of Sylvia Plath] (The poem in the third sentence is “The Colossus.”)
<Chicago B, American Literature>
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Arya KarthikOxford ASouthampton A7210
Michael WuSouthampton BManchester7710
Albert NyangLSEOxford C9010
Andrei HuiCambridge BWarwick B11310
Seraphina Charlotte FooCambridge ACambridge E12010
Percy YuenCambridge DBristol12110
Chris LevesleyWarwick ACambridge C12210
Jacob Hardin-BernhardtNYU CImperial A13010
Elliot CosnettOxford BDurham13510
Joseph CollinsImperial BSheffield14110

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