Poetry questions Flashcards

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Which poet was called the poet of New England?

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Robert Frost

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2
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Which poet was called the belle or nun of amhurst?

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Emily Dickinson

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3
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Which poet was called the walking poet?

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William Wordsworth

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4
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What was John Donne’s nickname?

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The religious poet

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5
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Which two poets were american?

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Dickinson and Frost

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6
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Which two poets were British?

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Donne and Wordsworth

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7
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Which poet would have been a contemporary of JFK?

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Robert Frost

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8
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Which poet would have lived in the civil war?

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Dickinson

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9
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Which poet lived through the american revolution?

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William Wordsworth

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10
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Which poet might have met Wm Shakespeare?

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Donne

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11
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Which poem was about a broken statue in the desert?

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Ozymandias

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12
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Which poem was about a king bored with being a king?

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Ulysses

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13
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Which poem compared the authors broken heart to the ocean?

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Break Break Break

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14
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Which poem was written by John Milton

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When I consider how my light is spent

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15
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What poem was written about John Milton>

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London 1802

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16
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What poem is about a woman using metaphors about being pregnant?

A

Metaphores

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17
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Which is about a athlete dying young?

A

To an athlete Dying Young

18
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Which poem could have possibly been about child abuse?

A

My Papa’s Waltz

19
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Which poem was about WWI and mustard gas?

A

Dulce et Decorum Est

20
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Which poem was about WWII

A

Death of the Ball Turret gunner

21
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Which was a poem about an eagle?

22
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Which poem was about a guy with a painting of his dead wife on the wall but would not let anyone look at it?

A

My Last Duchess

23
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Which poem was about birch trees

24
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Which poem does the author say he wishes he could be a boy over and over again?

25
Which poem is about a fence?
Mending wall
26
Which is about a boy who had his hand cut off?
Out Out
27
Which poem is about looking at the ocean?
Neither out far or in deep
28
Which poem is about a man going out walking in the rain?
Acquainted with the night
29
Which poem was about the author who wrote about death and a carriage?
Because I could not stop for death
30
Which poem was about a funeral in your mind?
I felt a funeral in my brain
31
Which Emily Dickinson poem is about her father?
I'm Nobody Who are you?
32
Which poem is about ou do not have to be a room to be haunted?
One need not be a chamber maid
33
Which was is poem about seduction?
The Flea and To His Coy Mistress
34
Which one is about a bird?
Hope is the thing with feathers
35
Which poem is about a rich guy who commits sucicide?
Richard Cory
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Which poem is about a blind guy asking god why am I blind?
When I consider how my light is spent
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Which poet had the theme of nature?
William Wordsworth
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Which poem wrote about death alot?
Emily Dickinson
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Which poet talked about entropy, doom and extinction?
Frost
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Which poet talked about courtly love?
Donne
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Which poet was around when the would shifted from mid evil to modern world?
Donne