Round 13: Tossup 1

These people title a poem whose speaker quotes her husband’s phrase “the only way out is all the way through” to a listener who camps on her land because he read a book on ferns. A woman reveals that her insane brother was caged in an attic in a poem in which she (-5[1])laments her lack (-5[1])of rest cooking for these title people. While waiting to hear about one of these title people, a woman watches to see if “a small sailing cloud / Will hit or miss the moon.” (-5[1])That woman recalls a summer when that one of these people “couldn’t make the boy believe / He could find water with a hazel prong.” Mary calls home (-5[1])“the (10[1])place where, (10[1])when you (-5[1])have (-5[1])to go (10[1])there, / They have (10[1])to take you in” (10[3])as (10[1])she asks her husband to help a freezing (10[1])one of these title (10[1])people (10[2])named (10[1])Silas. (10[2])For 10 points, a dialogue by Robert (10[1])Frost is titled for the (10[1])“death of” (10[1])what sort (10[2])of person? (10[1])■END■ (10[3])

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