Question
An Ezra Pound parody hopes that “particles” of this concept that “do not now partake of water melons / Will at some future time partake of water melons.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Walt Whitman called himself an “American, one of the roughs,” and what sort of thing in a line of “Song of Myself” that uses this word’s German spelling? A later revision follows this word with “of Manhattan the son.”
ANSWER: kosmos [or cosmos]
[10e] Henry James Sr. said he was “not yet a ‘cosmos’ as that gentleman avowedly is” when asked why he didn’t make this noise. In “Song of Myself,” Whitman sounds this “barbaric” noise “over the roofs of the world.”
ANSWER: barbaric yawp [or word forms like yawping]
[10m] James’s quip is quoted in an R. W. B. Lewis book on the “American” version of this man. This man arises “early in the morning” in a Leaves of Grass sequence partly titled for him that precedes the Calamus poems.
ANSWER: Adam [accept The American Adam or “Children of Adam”]
<JB, American Literature>
Data
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 14 | 13.57 | 100% | 36% | 0% |