Question
The speaker of one poem imagines "that some day, emerging at last from the terrifying vision, I may burst into jubilant praise" to these figures. For 10 points each:
[10h] In another poem published in 1923, the speaker asks "where are the days of Tobias" following an opening line about what figures?
ANSWER: angels [or Engel or Engels]
[10m] Both of those poems are from this 10-poem collection, whose second poem opens "Every angel is terrible" in Stephen Spender and J. B. Leishman's translation from German.
ANSWER: Duino Elegies [or Duineser Elegien]
[10e] This Austrian poet of the Duino Elegies had earlier written of a creature moving in "circles" in his poem "The Panther."
ANSWER: Rainer Maria Rilke ("RYE-nur mah-REE-uh RIL-kuh") [or René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke]
<Literature - European Literature - Poetry>
Data
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 38 | 21.58 | 84% | 71% | 61% |