Debi Roy, who pioneered “image jumping” and “logical breaks,” was a member of the Hungryalist Quartet of poets who wrote in this language. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this language used by Rabindranath Tagore to write two national anthems, including India’s “Jana Gana Mana.”
ANSWER: Bengali [or Bangla]
[10m] Falguni Ray’s poem “Coming Back to Verbs” describes singing for the death of Tagore and looting rice from one of these objects. The speaker of a Tagore poem titled for a golden one of these objects asks it to “take away [his] golden paddy” and describes trees on a riverbank “smearing shadows like ink.”
ANSWER: boats [or tori; accept “The Golden Boat” or “Sonar Tori”]
[10h] In a poem to this man, Tagore wrote of “cunning craftsman” and people “shouting to the soldiers, ‘Strike!’” The speaker addresses Shubha (“SHOO-bah”) in a Malay Roychoudhury (“roy-CHOW-doo-ree”) poem that begins “Oh I’ll die I’ll die I’ll die” titled “Stark Electric [this man].”
ANSWER: Jesus Christ [or Jesus Christ; accept “Stark Electric Jesus”; accept Son of Man or “To Christ, the Son of Man”; prompt on “Terrific Electric Carpenter”]
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