Question

When God tries to teach this character to say the word “love,” he instead produces “Man’s bodiless prodigious head” and “woman’s vulva,” which then become locked in a death struggle. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this character whose “First Lesson” and “Account of the Battle” are described in poems from a collection illustrated by Leonard Baskin in which he journeys through the universe in search of his female creator.
ANSWER: Crow [accept “Crow’s First Lesson”; accept “Crow’s Account of the Battle”; reject “bird” or “corvid” or “raven”]
[10e] Crow was created by this poet, whose collection Birthday Letters dramatizes his marriage to Sylvia Plath.
ANSWER: Ted Hughes [or Edward James Hughes]
[10m] This other Hughes poem describes a bird whose “wings hold all creation in a weightless quiet” and which “hangs still” before becoming trapped by the horizon in the last stanza.
ANSWER: “The Hawk in the Rain”

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3Total
Chicago AFlorida A0101020
Chicago BGeorgia Tech A010010
Claremont APenn A0101020
Columbia ACornell B0101020
Columbia BVanderbilt A010010
Georgia Tech BWUSTL B010010
Harvard AIndiana A0101020
Imperial ARutgers B010010
Iowa State AMcGill A010010
Johns Hopkins AMichigan A010010
Maryland AStanford A010010
Minnesota BUC Berkeley B010010
NYU AHouston A010010
North Carolina AMIT A0101020
Northwestern AMinnesota A0101020
Ohio State ABrown A010010
Penn State AYale B010010
Purdue AFlorida B010010
South Carolina ARutgers A0101020
Toronto AChicago C0101020
UC Berkeley ATexas A010010
Virginia AIllinois A010010
WUSTL ADuke A010010
Yale ACornell A010010