Round 3: Tossup 1

A poet in this language was inspired by T. S. Eliot’s theory of the objective correlative for his idea of “occasions.” A poet who described how it was suddenly evening at the end of a three-line poem used this language, which was central to a 1920s literary movement (-5[1])named in reference to Hermes Trismegistus. (10[1])The narrator of a poem in this language sits on a “solitary” hill and wonders how “sweet” (-5[1])it would be to be shipwrecked “in this sea.” This language of the collection Cuttlefish (10[1])Bones was used to describe the limitless vastness of negative space in “The Infinite.” A poet in this language developed and used an interlocking three-line rhyme scheme for an epic where the author’s dead (10[1])love (10[1])guides him through the nine celestial spheres. For 10 points, name this language used by Nobel (10[1])Prize winners Eugenio Montale and Salvatore Quasimodo. ■END■ (0[1])

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