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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!"
THE GIFT OUTRIGHT
THE MIDNIGHT RIDE OF PAUL REVERE
A DREAM DEFERRED
THE NEW COLOSSUS
2
Which English poet wrote, "Death, be not proud" in his "Holy" 10th sonnet along with "The Flea" and "The Good Morrow."
John Donne
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Alfred Lord Tennyson
John Keats
3
A leading figure of the HARLEM RENAISSANCE, known for my poems "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and "A Dream Deferred."
MAYA ANGELOU
LANGSTON HUGHES
ZORA NEALE THURSTON
WALT WHITMAN
4
He wrote the prolific "OZYMANDIAS" in 1817 was married to the woman who wrote
FRANKENSTEIN: THE MODERN PROMETHEUS.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
LORD BYRON
MARY SHELLEY
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Poet VIRGIL guides the protagonist through hell, purgatory, and heaven in this poet's "DIVINE COMEDY."
THOMAS AQUINAS
MEISTER ECKHART
JELALUDDIN RUMI
DANTE ALIGHIERI
6
The "Belle of Amherst" didn't title her poems most published posthumously, so most titles are the first verse
EMILY DICKINSON
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
SYLVIA PLATH
MAYA ANGELOU
7
Identify the first female poet to read her poem "On the Pulse of the Morning" at Clinton's 1997 inauguration.
VICTORIA WOODHULL
EMILY DICKINSON
MAYA ANGELOU
SYLVIA PLATH
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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.
JONATHAN SWIFT
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
9
Starting "Shall I compare thee to a summers day? Thou art more lovely and temperate" identify this Shakespeare sonnet.
SONNET 18
SONNET 104
SONNET 116
SONNET 27
10
This Canadian doctor wrote his magnum opus "IN FLANDERS FIELDS" in December 1915. Poppies are its unforgettable image.
JOHN ASHBERY
JOHN MCCRAE
ROBERT FROST
ROBERT HASS
11
His poem "HOWL" can be divided into three sections: destruction of great minds, what destroyed the minds, and; where?
SHEL SILVERSTEIN
JACK KEROUAC
ALAN GINSBERG
LANGSTON HUGHES
12
When Robert Frost couldn't read the poem he wrote, "Dedication" at JFK's inauguration, he recited this poem from memory.
BIRCHES
MENDING WALL
THE GIFT OUTRIGHT
A ROAD NOT TAKEN
13
Identify the country whose leading poets include KOBAYASHI ISSA, KIMIKO HAHN, and haiku GOAT, MATSUO BASHO.
CHINA
KOREA
JAPAN
TAIWAN
14
Chilean poet and diplomat whose 1971 Nobel Literature Prize poetry "brought alive a continent's destiny and dreams."
FERNANDO PESSOA
JORGE EDWARDS
PABLO NERUDA
ERNESTO CARDINEL
15
This country's list of most prolific poets includes Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, and songwriter Leonard Cohen.
ICELAND
NORWAY
CANADA
NETHERLANDS
16
As a poet which Nigerian novelist of
THINGS FALL APART
won the 1972 Commonwealth Prize for "Beware, Soul Brother"
DENNIS BRUTUS
CHINUA ACHEBE
JACK MAPANJE
ANTJIE KROG
17
Best known for his 1990 Nobel Prize and "The Labyrinth of Solitude," he is arguably the most prolific Mexican poet.
RAPHAEL GUILLEN
ANTONIO MACHADO
OCTAVIO PAZ
PABLO NERUDA
18
Best known for my POETRY COLLECTION
LEAVES of GRASS
and my poems "O Captain, My Captain" and "Song of Myself."
WALT WHITMAN
OSCAR WILDE
ROBERT FROST
EDGAR ALLAN POE
19
Country whose poets include Sir Walter Scott, Edwin Morgan, and the poet who wrote down "AULD LANG SYNE" Robert Burns.
WALES
NORTHERN IRELAND
ENGLAND
SCOTLAND
20
Female poet won the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2010; read "On the Pulse of Morning" at Bill Clinton's Inauguration
MAYA ANGELOU
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
LUCILLE CLIFTON
SYLVIA PLATH