Packet K: Bonus 20
The speaker claims that “To live in [this country] is to be conscious / At dusk of the spilled blood” in a poem titled for this country’s landscape. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this home country of a poet who described a man “left stranded” on the “lonely shore of his bleak bed” in the poem “Evans.” Dylan Thomas is another poet from this country.
ANSWER: Wales [or Cymru; prompt on United Kingdom; prompt on UK; prompt on Great Britain]
[10m] Though Dylan Thomas denied “Welshness” in his poetry, this poem is titled for a house in Wales. The speaker of this poem describes being “happy as the grass was green” when he was “young and easy under the apple boughs.”
ANSWER: “Fern Hill”
[10h] This Welsh nationalist poet wrote “Welsh Landscape” and “Evans.” This poet wrote “Winter rots you; who is there to blame? / The new grass shall purge you in its flame” in his poem, “Song at the Year’s Turning.”
ANSWER: R. S. Thomas [or Ronald Stuart Thomas; prompt on Thomas]
<UCF A, British Literature> | Packet K - UCF A, Notre Dame B, Durham A, Michigan State A, Swarthmore A, Cambridge B
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
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| 11 | 17.27 | 91% | 82% | 0% |
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| Canada | Main Site | ✓ | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Northeast | Main Site | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Overflow | Main Site | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Southeast | Main Site | ✓ | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |