Packet 7: Tossup 16

This poet described a place where “[t]he infinite sky is motionless overhead and the restless (15[1])water is boisterous.” In that poem by this poet, children “know not how to swim, they know (15[1])not how to cast nets” (15[1])on the “seashore of endless worlds.” Part of a (15[1])collection by this poet opens “Where the mind is without fear” and ends (15[1])(*) “my Father, let my country awake.” (10[2]-5[2])W. B. Yeats wrote (10[1])the foreword to a 1910 collection (10[1])by this (10[1])author, which made him (-5[1])the first non-western author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (10[1])and (10[1])has a title translating to Song Offerings. For 10 points, the lyrics to “Jana Gana Mana,” (10[2])India’s national anthem, (10[1])were written by what Bengali poet (-5[1])of (10[1])Gitanjali? ■END■ (10[1]0[4]-5[1])

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