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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

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5114.9092%39%18%

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
BristolManchester1010020ME
Cambridge ACambridge B1010020ME
Cambridge CCardiff010010E
City St. George'sOxford C010010E
DurhamMontpellier010010E
Edinburgh BImperial B1010020ME
LSESouthampton A10101030MEH
Oxford AEdinburgh A1010020ME
Oxford BWarwick B010010E
Southampton BImperial C0000
UCLBirmingham0101020EH
Warwick AImperial A10101030MEH

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TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
Great LakesMain Site✓512.00100%20%0%
Lower Mid-AtlanticMain Site✓711.4371%29%14%
Lower Mid-AtlanticMain Site✓110.00100%0%0%
MidwestMain Site✓915.56100%22%33%
NortheastMain Site✓514.00100%20%20%
SoutheastMain Site✓618.33100%83%0%
UKMain Site✓1216.6792%50%25%
Upper Mid-AtlanticMain Site✓615.0083%50%17%