Question

One person in this work interprets a hairpin in dish soap as a premonition that another character will return to him. That character hallucinates about walking back from ancestral Africa for “300 years” in this work after he ties cinder-blocks to his feet in an abortive treasure-finding scheme. In this work, Ma Kilman (20[2])follows a (20[1])line (20[1])of ants (20[1])to find a plant to cure a character’s injured leg. The narrator of this poem is mentored by the (*) blind fisherman Seven Seas. (10[3])Two characters in this poem compete for the affections of the maid and island’s beauty Helen. For 10 points, (10[1])Hector and Achilles (10[1])are re-imagined (10[2])as fishermen in what epic poem by Derek Walcott? (10[2])■END■ (10[10])

Back to tossups

Buzzes

Summary