Packet 4: Tossup 17

In a 2019 collection titled for one of these places, the speaker states “The sound we do not hear lifts the gulls off the water” when a gunshot kills the boy Petya. In Spoon River (15[1])Anthology, Anne Rutledge tells one of these places to “bloom forever… from the dust of (15[1])my bosom.” (15[1])One of these places titles a poem (-5[1])whose speaker notes “meteors are not needed less than mountains” and tells his sons “be in nothing so moderate as in love of man.” That (-5[1])Robinson Jeffers poem urges (*) “shine” to a “perishing” (10[4])one (10[2])of these (10[1])places. (10[1])A song titled for one of these places replaces rude lyrics about a “sour apple (10[1])tree” with lines like (10[1]-5[1])“As He died to make men holy, (10[1])let us die (10[1])to make men free” (-5[3])and (-5[1])“He is trampling out (10[2])the vintage where the grapes of wrath (10[1])are stored.” (-5[2])For 10 points, (10[1])Julia Ward Howe wrote what place’s “Battle (10[1])Hymn”? (10[3])■END■ (10[15]0[1])

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