Round 6: 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, (-5[1])which was central to a 1920s literary movement 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” (10[1])it would be to be shipwrecked “in this sea.” This language of the collection Cuttlefish Bones was used to (10[1])describe the limitless vastness (10[2])of negative space in “The (10[1])Infinite.” A poet in this language developed and used an interlocking three-line rhyme scheme for an epic where the author’s dead love guides him through the nine celestial (10[1])spheres. For 10 points, name this language used by Nobel Prize winners Eugenio Montale and Salvatore Quasimodo. ■END■

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