Poetry questions Flashcards
Which poet was called the poet of New England?
Robert Frost
Which poet was called the belle or nun of amhurst?
Emily Dickinson
Which poet was called the walking poet?
William Wordsworth
What was John Donne’s nickname?
The religious poet
Which two poets were american?
Dickinson and Frost
Which two poets were British?
Donne and Wordsworth
Which poet would have been a contemporary of JFK?
Robert Frost
Which poet would have lived in the civil war?
Dickinson
Which poet lived through the american revolution?
William Wordsworth
Which poet might have met Wm Shakespeare?
Donne
Which poem was about a broken statue in the desert?
Ozymandias
Which poem was about a king bored with being a king?
Ulysses
Which poem compared the authors broken heart to the ocean?
Break Break Break
Which poem was written by John Milton
When I consider how my light is spent
What poem was written about John Milton>
London 1802
What poem is about a woman using metaphors about being pregnant?
Metaphores
Which is about a athlete dying young?
To an athlete Dying Young
Which poem could have possibly been about child abuse?
My Papa’s Waltz
Which poem was about WWI and mustard gas?
Dulce et Decorum Est
Which poem was about WWII
Death of the Ball Turret gunner
Which was a poem about an eagle?
The Eagle
Which poem was about a guy with a painting of his dead wife on the wall but would not let anyone look at it?
My Last Duchess
Which poem was about birch trees
Birches
Which poem does the author say he wishes he could be a boy over and over again?
Birches
Which poem is about a fence?
Mending wall
Which is about a boy who had his hand cut off?
Out Out
Which poem is about looking at the ocean?
Neither out far or in deep
Which poem is about a man going out walking in the rain?
Acquainted with the night
Which poem was about the author who wrote about death and a carriage?
Because I could not stop for death
Which poem was about a funeral in your mind?
I felt a funeral in my brain
Which Emily Dickinson poem is about her father?
I’m Nobody Who are you?
Which poem is about ou do not have to be a room to be haunted?
One need not be a chamber maid
Which was is poem about seduction?
The Flea and To His Coy Mistress
Which one is about a bird?
Hope is the thing with feathers
Which poem is about a rich guy who commits sucicide?
Richard Cory
Which poem is about a blind guy asking god why am I blind?
When I consider how my light is spent
Which poet had the theme of nature?
William Wordsworth
Which poem wrote about death alot?
Emily Dickinson
Which poet talked about entropy, doom and extinction?
Frost
Which poet talked about courtly love?
Donne
Which poet was around when the would shifted from mid evil to modern world?
Donne
