Bonus

The speaker hears someone sing, “You shall love your crooked neighbour / With your crooked heart” in this author’s poem “As I Walked Out One Evening.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this British poet who declared that “We must love one another or die” in a poem set “in one of the dives / on Fifty-Second Street.”
ANSWER: W. H. Auden [or Wystan Hugh Auden] (The latter poem is “September 1, 1939.”)
[10h] “As I Walked Out One Evening” describes one of these things knocking “in the cupboard” while “The desert sighs in the bed.” In Auden’s “Lullaby,” the “hermit’s carnal ecstasy” is woken by “abstract insight” “among [these things] and the rocks.”
ANSWER: glaciers [reject synonyms]
[10m] Glaciers are mentioned often in a book Auden wrote with Louis MacNeice titled for this medium and Iceland. This medium partly titles Ted Hughes’s final poetry collection.
ANSWER: letters [accept Letters from Iceland; accept Birthday Letters]
<British Literature>
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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Columbia AWUSTL A1001020EM
Cornell BWinona State001010M
FloridaOttawa1001020EM
Georgia StateArizona State1001020EM
Illinois ANorth Carolina A100010E
IndianaWaterloo A100010E
Iowa StateToronto B100010E
Johns HopkinsChicago B100010E
MITCornell A1001020EM
MarylandIllinois B1001020EM
MichiganColumbia B1001020EM
MinnesotaTexas1001020EM
NYULSE1001020EM
Ohio StateVirginia1001020EM
RITVanderbilt1001020EM
StanfordRutgers1001020EM
Toronto ANorthwestern1001020EM
Toronto CHarvard100010E
UC Berkeley AChicago A1001020EM
UC Berkeley BPenn State100010E
UCFNorth Carolina B1001020EM
Virginia TechGeorgia Tech1001020EM
Waterloo BWUSTL B1001020EM
YaleBritish Columbia100010E

Summary

TournamentExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 ACF NationalsYes2416.6796%71%0%