Packet L: Bonus 7
The speaker reflects that “now my heart is sore” after seeing these “brilliant creatures.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these animals, of which the speaker sees “nine-and-fifty” in that poem. In a poem partly titled for these animals, the speaker imagines “The broken wall, the burning roof and tower” engendered by one of these animals.
ANSWER: swans [accept “The Wild Swans at Coole”; accept “Leda and the Swan”; prompt on birds]
[10e] “The Wild Swans at Coole” and “Leda and the Swan” are by this Irish poet who also wrote “The Second Coming” and “Sailing to Byzantium.”
ANSWER: William Butler Yeats
[10h] This poet described a swan “Like a cake / Of soap” who has “abandoned hope” in the poem “The Bereaved Swan.” This poet’s best-known poem opens, “Nobody heard him, the dead man” and claims “I was much too far out all my life.”
ANSWER: Stevie Smith [or Florence Margaret Smith] (The poem is “Not Waving but Drowning.”)
<Georgia Tech B, British Literature> | Packet L - Harvard A, McGill A, Arizona State A, Georgia Tech B, Toronto D, Georgia Tech D
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | 14.90 | 92% | 39% | 18% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great Lakes | Main Site | ✓ | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 7 | 11.43 | 71% | 29% | 14% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Midwest | Main Site | ✓ | 9 | 15.56 | 100% | 22% | 33% |
| Northeast | Main Site | ✓ | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 20% | 20% |
| Southeast | Main Site | ✓ | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 83% | 0% |
| UK | Main Site | ✓ | 12 | 16.67 | 92% | 50% | 25% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 6 | 15.00 | 83% | 50% | 17% |