Question
The author of this book wrote “ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write?” in response to receiving some poems. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this book that advises a cadet training at a military academy “Nobody can advise you and help you, nobody. There is only one way. Go into yourself.”
ANSWER: Letters to a Young Poet [or Briefe an Einen Jungen Dichter]
[10e] Modern audiences often view this author’s Letters to a Young Poet as a self-help book. This author wrote “You must change your life” to close his poem “Archaic Torso of Apollo.”
ANSWER: Rainer Maria Rilke [or René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke]
[10h] Rilke addresses the reader with the lines “practice on this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily” from this poem dedicated to his friend, the artist Paula Modersohn-Becker. You may give the full title or just the first word..
ANSWER: “Requiem for a Friend” [or “Requiem for a Woman”; or “Requiem: Für Eine Freundin”]
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WUSTL B | Penn A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |