Packet O: Tossup 13

The speaker calls a yew hedge from this country “gothic and barbarous” in the poem “Little Fugue.” The impact of a bumblebee enthusiast born in this country on his child’s poetry is examined in Heather Clark’s biography Red Comet. A city in this country is called a “morgue” between two other cities (10[1])in a poem (10[1])that describes (10[1])women from this country as “naked and bald in their firs” and opens, “perfection (10[1])is terrible, it cannot (-5[1])have children.” (10[1]-5[1])The speaker claims to have “thought every” person in this country “was you” in a poem that alludes to this country’s leader in a line about a “man in black” with (10[1])a certain (10[1]-5[2])“look”; (10[1])that poem opens (-5[1])“you do not do, you do not do.” For 10 points, atrocities committed by what country are referenced throughout Sylvia Plath’s poem (10[1])“Daddy”? ■END■ (10[2]0[2])

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