Question
In a poem adopted as the national anthem of a different country, the "Poet of" this country declared both "the sword and the pen" as "our symbols." A woman from this country describes how she misses "the smell of coffee" in her late poem "Longing Inspired by the Law of Gravity." The speaker declares, "You killed me…and I forgot, like you, to die" while within the "ancient walls" of a city in this country. It's not Lebanon, but a poet from this country reflected on the siege of Beirut in the prose poem (*) Memory for Forgetfulness. A poet from this country declares to "beware, beware of my hunger" in the poem "Identity Card." For 10 points, name this country home to the literary Tuqan family and Mahmoud Darwish. ■END■
ANSWER: State of Palestine [or Dawlat Filastin; prompt on Israel] (The poem from the first line is "Mawtini" by Ibrahim Tuqan and was adopted as the National Anthem of Iraq.)
<Literature - World Literature - Poetry>
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| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | TUH | Conv. % | Power % | Neg % | Average Buzz |
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| 2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 12 | 92% | 33% | 0% | 93.09 |