Packet 2: Bonus 5
This BU entomologist was the author of Bumblebees and Their Ways, but is better known for being told “you bastard, I’m through.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name or describe this person who is called a “man in black with a Meinkampf look” in a poem from Ariel.
ANSWER: Otto Plath [accept Sylvia Plath’s father; accept “Daddy”; accept dad for “father”; prompt on Plath]
[10m] In 1975, Plath’s mother Aurelia tried to counter the filial anger of The Bell Jar by publishing a book titled for these objects. A collection titled for these objects includes poems about Plath like “The Blue Flannel Suit.”
ANSWER: letters [accept Letters Home; accept Birthday Letters] (Birthday Letters is by Ted Hughes.)
[10h] Plath tells her own child, “I’m no more your mother / Than the cloud that distills a mirror” in this poem written shortly after she gave birth to Frieda Hughes. This poem begins both the 1966 and 2004 versions of Ariel.
ANSWER: “Morning Song”
<NYU B, American Literature> | I2. Prelims Tiebreaker - NYU A + NYU B + Case Western + Cornell (Tiebreaker Half 2)
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