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A #literature #poetry QUIZ about #poets and the #poems that they wrote.
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Inscribed on the STATUE of LIBERTY, this 1883 EMMA LAZARUS poem ends, "I lift my lamp beside the Golden Door!"
A DREAM DEFERRED
THE GIFT OUTRIGHT
THE NEW COLOSSUS
THE MIDNIGHT RIDE OF PAUL REVERE
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This country's list of most prolific poets includes Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, and songwriter Leonard Cohen.
CANADA
ICELAND
NETHERLANDS
NORWAY
3
Poet VIRGIL guides the protagonist through hell, purgatory, and heaven in this poet's "DIVINE COMEDY."
DANTE ALIGHIERI
THOMAS AQUINAS
JELALUDDIN RUMI
MEISTER ECKHART
4
As a poet which Nigerian novelist of
THINGS FALL APART
won the 1972 Commonwealth Prize for "Beware, Soul Brother"
DENNIS BRUTUS
ANTJIE KROG
JACK MAPANJE
CHINUA ACHEBE
5
He wrote the prolific "OZYMANDIAS" in 1817 was married to the woman who wrote
FRANKENSTEIN: THE MODERN PROMETHEUS.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
MARY SHELLEY
LORD BYRON
6
Female poet won the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2010; read "On the Pulse of Morning" at Bill Clinton's Inauguration
SYLVIA PLATH
MAYA ANGELOU
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
LUCILLE CLIFTON
7
His poem "HOWL" can be divided into three sections: destruction of great minds, what destroyed the minds, and; where?
SHEL SILVERSTEIN
LANGSTON HUGHES
JACK KEROUAC
ALAN GINSBERG
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A leading figure of the HARLEM RENAISSANCE, known for my poems "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and "A Dream Deferred."
WALT WHITMAN
ZORA NEALE THURSTON
MAYA ANGELOU
LANGSTON HUGHES
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This Canadian doctor wrote his magnum opus "IN FLANDERS FIELDS" in December 1915. Poppies are its unforgettable image.
JOHN ASHBERY
ROBERT FROST
JOHN MCCRAE
ROBERT HASS
10
Best known for my POETRY COLLECTION
LEAVES of GRASS
and my poems "O Captain, My Captain" and "Song of Myself."
ROBERT FROST
OSCAR WILDE
EDGAR ALLAN POE
WALT WHITMAN
11
When Robert Frost couldn't read the poem he wrote, "Dedication" at JFK's inauguration, he recited this poem from memory.
THE GIFT OUTRIGHT
A ROAD NOT TAKEN
BIRCHES
MENDING WALL
12
Starting "Shall I compare thee to a summers day? Thou art more lovely and temperate" identify this Shakespeare sonnet.
SONNET 18
SONNET 116
SONNET 27
SONNET 104
13
Which English poet wrote, "Death, be not proud" in his "Holy" 10th sonnet along with "The Flea" and "The Good Morrow."
John Keats
Alfred Lord Tennyson
John Donne
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
14
Country whose poets include Sir Walter Scott, Edwin Morgan, and the poet who wrote down "AULD LANG SYNE" Robert Burns.
WALES
SCOTLAND
ENGLAND
NORTHERN IRELAND
15
The "Belle of Amherst" didn't title her poems most published posthumously, so most titles are the first verse
SYLVIA PLATH
MAYA ANGELOU
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
EMILY DICKINSON
16
Chilean poet and diplomat whose 1971 Nobel Literature Prize poetry "brought alive a continent's destiny and dreams."
FERNANDO PESSOA
PABLO NERUDA
ERNESTO CARDINEL
JORGE EDWARDS
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Best known for his 1990 Nobel Prize and "The Labyrinth of Solitude," he is arguably the most prolific Mexican poet.
PABLO NERUDA
RAPHAEL GUILLEN
OCTAVIO PAZ
ANTONIO MACHADO
18
Identify the first female poet to read her poem "On the Pulse of the Morning" at Clinton's 1997 inauguration.
VICTORIA WOODHULL
SYLVIA PLATH
EMILY DICKINSON
MAYA ANGELOU
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Known as "THE BARD," this English poet hit his prime at the end of the 16th century. He penned 154 sonnets.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
JONATHAN SWIFT
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
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Identify the country whose leading poets include KOBAYASHI ISSA, KIMIKO HAHN, and haiku GOAT, MATSUO BASHO.
JAPAN
TAIWAN
CHINA
KOREA