THE POET IN YOU
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Are you a poet? A fun quiz to check your knowledge of poets and poetry.
1. What does 'sonnet' mean?
Love song.
Rhyming song.
Little song.
Spoken song.
2. Mastsuo Basho is a famous writer of:
Haiku
Sestinas
Villanelles
Sonnets
3. Both Italian and Shakespearean sonnets have _____ lines.
8
10
12
14
4. What is a sequence of 15 sonnets called?
A garland.
A crown
A chorus
An epic poem
5. The English poets Willam Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey were known as:
Viking poets.
Lake poets.
Modern poets.
Rhtming poets.
6. Who is the chief of the metaphysical poets?
William Shakespear
William Wordsworth
John Donne
JohnKeats
7. The best poets included:
Allen Ginsgerg and Jack Kerouac
William Burroughs and William Blake
Robert Frost and Walt Whitman
8. William Carlos Williams was a poet and a_
Carpenter
Schoolteacher
Doctor
Actor
9. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell was written by:
William Blake
William Shakespeare
Sammual Taylor Coleridge
10. Which famous poet was married to the (female) author of Frankenstien?
Lord Byron
Percy Bysshe Shelly
William Godwin
John Keats
11. How many poems did Emily Dickinson write during her lifetime?
225
500
950
1775
12. Which Romantic poet immortalised a piece of poetry in 'Ode to a Grecian Urn'?
LOrd Byron
Willam Godwin
13. An abstract poem ........
doesn't have a rhyme scheme.
is about feelings instead of things.
uses words chosen because of the way they sound.
uses words that are made up.
14. A 'found' poem...
is any poem by Anonymous.
is a poem found in a non-poetic context.
is a poem published in a public newspaper.
is the written chorous of a song.
15. What road did Robert Frost take?
the road to Mandalay?
The Yellow Brick Road?
the road less travelled?
the dirt road?
16. What bird played the title role in one of Edgar Allen Poe's most famous poems?
Sparrow.
Pigeon
Raven
Crow
17. Which poet wrote abput J. Alfed Prufrock and his problems with women?
Ezra Pond
T.S.Eliot
William Butler Yeats
Robert Frost
18. The Brooklyn Ferry was immortalised in a poem by:
Walt Whitman
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry Thoreau
Margaret Fuller
19. Which poet wrote aout meeting Walt Whitman in a California supermarket?
Allen Ginsberg
Jack Kerouac
Charles Simic
Sylvia Plath
20. Which famous confessional poet was married to ted Huges, esteemed English poet, before her suicide?
Anne Saxton
Wallace Stevens
Gwendolyen Brooks