Packet 9: Tossup 7

In a poem from this language, the speaker warns how “jealous fate” will turn people to ashes to “feed the roots of life.” One of “three fathers” of a movement in this language wrote the poetry collection Pigments. (15[1])A “lousy pig” is told to beat it (15[1])“At the end of daybreak” to begin a long (15[1])poem written (15[1])in this language titled “Notebook of a Return (15[1])to My Native (15[1])Land.” (15[1])Poetry in this language was the subject of the essay (15[1])(*) Black Orpheus. (10[2]-5[1])Along (10[1])with Léopold (10[1]-5[1])Senghor, Léon-Gontran (10[2])Damas (10[1])and Aimé (10[1])Césaire (10[1])used this language (10[1])to begin the Négritude movement. For 10 points, (-5[1])name this language (-5[1])used by 20th (10[1])century poets from Martinique and Senegal. (10[1])■END■ (10[6]0[1])

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