Robert Frost - 2026 ACF Regionals

Packet E: Bonus 16

This poet concluded that gravestones might “believe the lie” that “men hate to die / and have stopped dying now forever” at the end of his poem “In a Disused Graveyard.” For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this New England poet whose poems about death include “The Death of the Hired Man,” “Out, Out—,” and “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”

ANSWER: Robert Frost [or Robert Lee Frost]

[10m] In this Frost poem, a man sees a graveyard “so small the window frames the whole of it” during an icy conversation with his wife. This poem is titled for the event that the couple has recently held for their dead son.

ANSWER: “Home Burial”

[10h] Frost’s own gravestone mentions one of these conflicts, which subtitles Shirley Clarke’s documentary about him. Frost’s poem “The Lesson for Today” ends by stating that he had one of these conflicts “with the world.”

ANSWER: lover’s quarrel [accept “I had a lover’s quarrel with the world”; prompt on quarrels]

<TM, American Literature> | Packet E - Chicago A, Toronto B, Brandeis B, JHU A

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
73	11.92	84%	21%	15%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
Alabama A	WashU B	10	10	0	20	EM
Alabama B	Sewanee	10	0	0	10	E
Arizona State	UCSD B	10	0	0	10	E
Berkeley A	Berkeley D	10	10	0	20	EM
Birmingham	Montpellier	10	0	0	10	E
Bowdoin A	Yale	0	0	0	0
Brandeis A	Southern Connecticut State	10	0	0	10	E
Cambridge B	Bristol	10	0	10	20	EH
Cambridge C	City St. George's	10	0	0	10	E
Cardiff	Southampton B	10	0	0	10	E
Carleton College	Missouri B	10	10	0	20	EM
Catholic	Johns Hopkins B	0	0	0	0
Central Florida C	Florida B	10	0	0	10	E
Chicago B	Northwestern D	10	0	0	10	E
Chicago C	Chicago E	0	0	0	0
Columbia B	Maryland B	10	10	10	30	EMH
Columbia C	Swarthmore	10	0	0	10	E
Cornell A	RIT	10	0	0	10	E
Cornell B	Binghamton B	10	10	0	20	EM
Cornell C	Penn State	10	0	0	10	E
Dartmouth B	Dartmouth A	10	0	0	10	E
Durham	Edinburgh B	10	0	0	10	E
Florida A	Central Florida A	10	0	0	10	E
Florida C	Central Florida B	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech B	Louisville A	10	0	0	10	E
Georgia Tech C	Tennessee A	10	0	0	10	E
Harvard A	Brown	10	10	10	30	EMH
Illinois A	Notre Dame B	10	0	0	10	E
Illinois B	Indiana C	10	0	0	10	E
Imperial A	Oxford A	0	0	0	0
Imperial C	Oxford B	0	0	0	0
Indiana A	Notre Dame A	10	0	0	10	E
Indiana B	Purdue B	10	0	10	20	EH
Iowa State	Washington A	10	0	0	10	E
James Madison B	William and Mary	0	0	0	0
John Jay	NYU C	10	10	0	20	EM
Liberty A	James Madison A	0	0	0	0
Liberty B	North Carolina C	10	0	0	10	E
Liberty C	NC State B	10	0	0	10	E
Manchester	Edinburgh A	0	0	0	0
Maryland C	Columbia A	10	0	0	10	E
Michigan A	Ohio State A	10	10	0	20	EM
Michigan B	Ohio State C	10	10	0	20	EM
Michigan State	CWRU A	10	0	10	20	EH
Minnesota A	Claremont	10	10	10	30	EMH
Mississipi State	Georgia Tech D	10	10	0	20	EM
Missouri A	Georgia Tech A	10	0	0	10	E
NYU B	Vassar	10	0	0	10	E
North Carolina A	South Carolina B	10	0	0	10	E
North Carolina B	South Carolina A	10	10	0	20	EM
Northwestern C	Northwestern B	10	0	0	10	E
Ohio State B	CWRU B	10	0	0	10	E
Oxford C	Warwick B	0	0	0	0
Pittsburgh	Michigan C	10	10	10	30	EMH
Purdue A	Illinois C	10	10	0	20	EM
Rochester	Binghamton A	10	0	10	20	EH
Rutgers A	Maryland A	10	0	0	10	E
Rutgers B	Georgetown	10	0	0	10	E
Southampton A	Imperial B	10	0	0	10	E
Stanford A	Berkeley C	10	10	0	20	EM
Stanford B	Berkeley B	10	0	0	10	E
Texas A	Texas B	10	0	10	20	EH
Texas A&M A	Murray State A	10	0	0	10	E
UBC B	Brock	10	0	0	10	E
UC Irvine	UCLA B	10	0	0	10	E
UC Santa Barbara	UCSD A	10	0	0	10	E
UCL	LSE	0	0	0	0
UCLA A	UCSD C	10	0	10	20	EH
VCU	Duke	0	0	0	0
Virginia Tech A	NC State A	10	0	10	20	EH
Wake Forest	Virginia	10	0	0	10	E
Warwick A	Cambridge A	10	0	0	10	E
WashU A	Kentucky	10	0	0	10	E

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
California (North)	Main Site	✓	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
California (South)	Main Site	✓	4	12.50	100%	0%	25%
Canada	Main Site	✓	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Florida	Main Site	✓	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	✓	5	20.00	100%	60%	40%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	✓	9	8.89	67%	11%	11%
Midwest	Main Site	✓	8	11.25	88%	13%	13%
Northeast	Main Site	✓	4	12.50	75%	25%	25%
Overflow	Main Site	✓	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
South Central	Main Site	✓	2	15.00	100%	0%	50%
Southeast	Main Site	✓	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
UK	Main Site	✓	12	6.67	58%	0%	8%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	✓	8	12.50	88%	25%	13%
Upstate NY	Main Site	✓	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%