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The line “Happy is he who like [this man], has made a beautiful voyage” opens a sonnet from Joachim du Bellay’s The Regrets inspired by a disappointing trip to Rome. For 10 points each:
[10e] Louise Labé’s (“luh-BAY’s”) Sonnet I contrasts what “wise” figure with a speaker hopelessly in love? An Alfred, Lord Tennyson poem titled for him ends, “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
ANSWER: Ulysses [or Odysseus; or Ulysse]
[10h] In the oft-quoted opening line of Labé’s Sonnet VIII, which adapts the oxymorons of Petrarch’s Sonnet 134, she states, “I live. I die.” followed by this pair of contradictory actions. Name both actions.
ANSWER: burn AND drown [or “I burn and drown”; or “I’m on fire and I drown”; or “je me brûle et me noie”]
[10m] Labé’s sonnets were likely for Olivier de Magny (“duh mahn-YEE”), a member of this poetic circle that revived the alexandrine. The poet of Sonnets for Helen, Pierre de Ronsard, led this group with a mythological name.
ANSWER: La Pléiade (“lah play-YAHD”) [or the Pleiades; or the Brigade]
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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Arizona StateFlorida100010E
Chicago ANorth Carolina A1001020EM
Columbia AStanford1001020EM
Cornell AIowa State1001020EM
Georgia StateNYU1001020EM
Georgia TechMIT1001020EM
Illinois ANorthwestern1001020EM
IndianaToronto A100010E
LSEWUSTL B1001020EM
MinnesotaHarvard100010E
North Carolina BIllinois B0000
Penn StateWaterloo B1001020EM
RutgersUC Berkeley A100010E
TexasChicago B1001020EM
Toronto BJohns Hopkins100010E
UC Berkeley BBritish Columbia1001020EM
UCFRIT100010E
VirginiaColumbia B100010E
Virginia TechToronto C100010E
Waterloo AWUSTL A100010E
Winona StateOhio State100010E
YaleOttawa100010E

Summary

TournamentExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 ACF NationalsYes2214.0996%46%0%