Round 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 Anthology, Anne Rutledge tells one of these places to “bloom forever… from the dust of my bosom.” One of these places titles a poem 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 Robinson Jeffers poem urges (*) “shine” to a “perishing” one (10[1])of these places. A song titled for one of these places replaces rude lyrics about a “sour apple (10[1])tree” with lines like “As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free” (-5[1])and (-5[1])“He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.” For 10 points, Julia Ward Howe wrote what place’s “Battle Hymn”? ■END■ (10[3]0[1])

ANSWER: republics [accept “Battle Hymn of the Republic”; accept “Shine, Perishing Republic”; accept Deaf Republic] (The first clue refers to Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky.)
<HA, American Literature> | NAFTA-Packet-4
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