Packet 10: Bonus 15

According to a poem from a 1922 collection, a “rural” one of these people was “pure,” “poor,” and “cheerful.” For 10 points each:
[10h] A poet who was also one of what people wrote a “prayer” titled for them, which asks “make me more motherly than the mothers”?
ANSWER: teachers [or maestras; accept “The Rural Teacher” or “The Teacher’s Prayer” or “La maestra rural” or “La oración de la maestra”]
[10e] This Chilean poet of “The Rural Teacher” and “The Teacher’s Prayer” published “Sonnets of Death” under a pseudonym to avoid disrupting her teaching career.
ANSWER: Gabriela Mistral [or Lucila Godoy Alcayaga]
[10m] Mistral’s poem “The Rural Teacher” is from a collection usually titled in English for this concept. A poem whose English title mentions this concept states “like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness.”
ANSWER: despair [or desolation; accept “The Song of Despair” or Desolación or “La canción desesperada”]
<Editors, World Literature> | S. Playoffs 10 (Editors 10)

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