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Faride Zerán’s (“say-RAHN’s”) book on a “war” between two poets of this first name recounts vitriolic insults hurled in poems like “Dantean Tercets” and “Here I Am.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Give this first name of two of a country’s “four great” poets. One dedicated “Old Man’s Song” to his wife, Winétt de Rokha, while the other wrote Canto General (“hay-nay-RAHL”).
ANSWER: Pablo [accept Pablo de Rokha or Pablo Neruda; prompt on Carlos Ignacio Díaz Loyola or Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto by asking “what first name did they write under?”]
[10m] In a line admired by Roberto Bolaño, this “poet of the sneeze” jokingly listed Alonso de Ercilla and Rubén Darío as Chile’s four greats. He opposed de Rokha and Neruda’s lyricism by writing “anti-poetry.”
ANSWER: Nicanor Parra [or Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval] (Parra was called the “poet of the sneeze” by Thomas Merton.)
[10h] In his Nobel lecture, Neruda rejected a creationist slogan of rival great poet Vicente Huidobro (“wee-DOH-broh”) that equates “the poet” with this two-word phrase, stating, “No, the poet is not a [this figure]. He is not picked out by a mystical destiny.”
ANSWER: “little god” [accept “the poet is a little god” or “el Poeta es un pequeño Dios”]
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Cornell AWaterloo A10101030EMH
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StanfordUCF1010020EM
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