Round 11: 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 in a poem that describes women from this country as “naked and bald in their firs” and opens, “perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.” 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 a certain (-5[1])“look”; 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 “Daddy”? ■END■ (0[2])

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