Question
The speaker warns "Behold the time of the Assassins" in a poem about a "Morning" with this quality. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this quality that titles a different Arthur Rimbaud ("ar-TOOR ram-BOH") poem about a vehicle that goes down "impassive Rivers."
ANSWER: drunkenness [or drunken or drunk or ivresse or ivre; accept "The Drunken Boat" or "Le Bateau ivre" or "Drunken Morning" or "Morning of Drunkenness" or "Matinée d'ivresse"]
[10e] Rimbaud's "drunken boat" describes "small electric" examples of this thing. Rimbaud's partner Paul Verlaine ("vur-LEN") wrote a poem titled for the "light," or "clair," given off by this thing.
ANSWER: Moon [or lune or moons or lunes; accept "Clair de lune" or "Moonlight"]
[10h] A poem by a different French poet, from a collection partly titled for this concept, begins "You have to be always drunk." That poem's author popularized the name of this concept, which refers to a melancholy of uncertain origin.
ANSWER: spleen [accept Paris Spleen or Le Spleen de Paris] (The poem is by Charles Baudelaire.)
<Literature - European Literature - Poetry>
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Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 36 | 12.50 | 72% | 53% | 0% |