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George Pope Morris’s most famous poem implores the title character to spare one of these objects. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this object that appears in the title of a Samuel Woodworth poem about his childhood memory of drinking from an old bucket. Emily Dickinson’s poem “I robbed the woods” ends by asking what one of these objects will say.
ANSWER: oak tree [prompt on tree] (The poems are “Woodman, Spare that Tree” and “The Old Oaken Bucket.”)
[10e] Dorothea Dix and Pedro II were among the many visitors to this poet’s estate Oak Knoll. This “fireside poet” wrote the poems “Maud Muller” and Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl.
ANSWER: John Greenleaf Whittier
[10m] This American author described a “[s]mall bat and wren” who “[h]ouse in the oak” in his ode to abolitionist W. H. Channing. The line “beauty is its own excuse for Being” appears in this author’s poem “The Rhodora.”
ANSWER: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Chicago BMinnesota1010020HE
Columbia ANorth Carolina A0101020EM
Columbia BMaryland0000
Cornell ATexas0101020EM
Georgia StateYale010010E
Georgia TechJohns Hopkins10101030HEM
Illinois AIndiana0101020EM
Illinois BRIT010010E
LSEBritish Columbia0101020EM
MITToronto C010010E
MichiganVirginia0101020EM
NYUFlorida0101020EM
NorthwesternWUSTL A0101020EM
Ohio StateNorth Carolina B010010E
Penn StateWUSTL B0101020EM
RutgersChicago A010010E
Toronto AStanford0101020EM
Toronto BHarvard010010E
UC Berkeley BArizona State0101020EM
UCFCornell B010010E
VanderbiltWinona State0000
Virginia TechIowa State10101030HEM
Waterloo AUC Berkeley A0101020EM
Waterloo BOttawa0101020EM

Summary

TournamentExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 ACF NationalsYes2416.2592%58%13%