POETRY

Question 1

Walt Whitman long elegy re death of Lincoln?

Answer 1

When Lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed

Question 2

a poetry collection by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. Published in June 1924, the book launched Neruda to fame at the young age of 19 and is one of the most renowned literary works of the 20th century in the Spanish language

Answer 2

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of despair

Question 3

1612 – September 16, 1672) was among the most prominent of early English poets of North America and first writer in England’s North American colonies to be published. She is the first Puritan figure in American Literature and notable for her large corpus of poetry, as well as personal writings published posthumously.

Answer 3

Anne BRADSTREET

Question 4

1957 POEM launched Octavio Paz. Concerns Aztec calendar.

Answer 4

PIEDRA DE SOL/SUNSTONE

Question 4

a Japanese form of popular collaborative linked verse poetry. It is a development of the older Japanese poetic tradition of ushin renga, or orthodox collaborative linked verse. At renku gatherings participating poets take turns providing alternating verses of 17 and 14 morae

Answer 4

RENKU

Question 5

an epic poem by the Polish poet, writer, translator and philosopher Adam Mickiewicz. The book, written in Polish alexandrines,[1] was first published by Aleksander Jełowicki on 28 June 1834 in Paris.[2] It is deemed one of the last great epic poems in European literature.[

Answer 5

PAN TADEUSZ

Question 6

Who wrote the Ballade des Pendus while awaiting execution?

Answer 6

FRANCOIS VILLON

Question 9

Rusteveli epic

Answer 9

Knight in panthers skin