Question

According to one poem, a statue of this figure is “still suffused with brilliance from inside.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this figure, a statue of which is imagined as having a “legendary head” with “eyes like ripening fruit." That poem titled for it ends by stating “You must change your life."
ANSWER: Apollo [accept “The Archaic Torso of Apollo”
[10m] The author of the “Archaic Torso of Apollo” Rainer Maria Rilke, asked “Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic orders?” to begin a series of works in this genre named for Duino Castle.
ANSWER: an elegy [accept elegies; accept Duino Elegies]
[10e] Rilke also wrote a cycle of 55 of these fourteen-line poems dedicated to Orpheus. Many Shakespearan examples of them were addressed to the Dark Lady.
ANSWER: sonnets [accept Sonnets to Orpheus]
<Literature - European Literature - Poetry>

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3Total
Downingtown STEMNorth Babylon A10101030
East Brunswick ATrinity A10101030
EastchesterEast Brunswick B10101030
Great ValleyHastings A10101030
Hunter ANorth Babylon B10101030
Hunter BBASIS-Independent Brooklyn001010
Mather AHastings B10101030
Mather BDaniel Boone Academy001010
Stuyvesant AMather C10101030
USN AVanderbilt10101030
USN BMerrol-Hyde0101020
USN CUSN MS001010
moving finger AStuyvesant B10101030
moving finger BTrinity B0101020

Summary

TournamentEditionExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
Snowball Fight 21/11/2025Y320.00100%67%33%
2024 FARSI @ Columbia12/08/2024Y1125.45100%82%73%