Round 14: Tossup 19

The speaker of a poem twice invokes these entities before telling an “Old Rocky Face” to “look forth.” A diagram of these entities “of concord” and “of discord” follows the poem “The Phases of the Moon” in a chapter on “The Great Wheel.” A command to move like one of these entities precedes the line “And be the singing masters of my soul.” (-5[1])Swedenborg’s (-5[1])Principia inspired a description of these entities recurrently forming from “two poles” of reality in the automatic writing text A Vision. A poem’s speaker (10[1])tells a group of sages “standing (10[1]-5[1])in God’s holy fire” to “perne” in one of these entities. These entities represent opposing (10[2])forces (-5[1])“expanding (-5[1])and contracting” across the ages in the symbolic lexicon of W. B. Yeats. For 10 points, “The Second (10[1])Coming” (10[1])begins (10[2])with (10[1])a falcon (-5[1])“turning (10[4])and turning” (10[3])in what “widening” phenomenon? (10[1])■END■ (10[5]0[3])

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