Question

A. R. Ammons analogized poetry to this activity in a 1967 essay that calls it an "​​externalization of an interior seeking” that “turns … and eventually returns.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this activity that releases the speaker “from forms, / from the perpendiculars” in the poem “Corsons Inlet.” It ends by noting, as “Scope eludes [his] grasp,” tomorrow this activity will be made anew.
ANSWER: walking [or equivalents like perambulation; accept “A Poem is a Walk”; prompt on movement or locomotion or equivalents]
[10m] To argue that “A Poem is a Walk,” A. R. Ammons quotes from a poem by this author, whose speaker walks into a frozen swamp and reflects on the “slow smokeless burning of decay” of a pile of wood.
ANSWER: Robert Frost [or Robert Lee Frost] (The poem is “The Wood-Pile.”)
[10e] Harold Bloom called Ammons “the most direct” poet since Frost to emulate this 19th-century movement, which included the authors of the essays “Walking” and “Nature.”
ANSWER: transcendentalism [or word forms, such as transcendental] (Henry David Thoreau wrote “Walking” and Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote “Nature.”)

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3Total
Brown AOhio State A0101020
Chicago AFlorida A10101030
Chicago BGeorgia Tech A001010
Chicago CToronto A001010
Cornell BColumbia A001010
Duke AWUSTL A0101020
Florida BPurdue A0101020
Georgia Tech BWUSTL B0101020
Illinois AVirginia A10101030
Imperial ARutgers B001010
Indiana AHarvard A0000
McGill AIowa State A0101020
Michigan AJohns Hopkins A001010
NYU AHouston A001010
North Carolina AMIT A001010
Northwestern AMinnesota A001010
Penn AClaremont A001010
Rutgers ASouth Carolina A001010
Stanford AMaryland A001010
Texas AUC Berkeley A0101020
UC Berkeley BMinnesota B001010
Vanderbilt AColumbia B0101020
Yale ACornell A001010
Yale BPenn State A001010