Poetry questions Flashcards

1
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Which poet was called the poet of New England?

A

Robert Frost

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

A

Emily Dickinson

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3
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Which poet was called the walking poet?

A

William Wordsworth

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4
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What was John Donne’s nickname?

A

The religious poet

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5
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Which two poets were american?

A

Dickinson and Frost

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6
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Which two poets were British?

A

Donne and Wordsworth

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7
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Which poet would have been a contemporary of JFK?

A

Robert Frost

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8
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Which poet would have lived in the civil war?

A

Dickinson

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9
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Which poet lived through the american revolution?

A

William Wordsworth

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10
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Which poet might have met Wm Shakespeare?

A

Donne

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

A

Ozymandias

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

A

Ulysses

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

A

Break Break Break

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14
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Which poem was written by John Milton

A

When I consider how my light is spent

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15
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What poem was written about John Milton>

A

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?

A

The 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

A

Birches

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

A

Birches

25
Q

Which poem is about a fence?

A

Mending wall

26
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Which is about a boy who had his hand cut off?

A

Out Out

27
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Which poem is about looking at the ocean?

A

Neither out far or in deep

28
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Which poem is about a man going out walking in the rain?

A

Acquainted with the night

29
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Which poem was about the author who wrote about death and a carriage?

A

Because I could not stop for death

30
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Which poem was about a funeral in your mind?

A

I felt a funeral in my brain

31
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Which Emily Dickinson poem is about her father?

A

I’m Nobody Who are you?

32
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Which poem is about ou do not have to be a room to be haunted?

A

One need not be a chamber maid

33
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Which was is poem about seduction?

A

The Flea and To His Coy Mistress

34
Q

Which one is about a bird?

A

Hope is the thing with feathers

35
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Which poem is about a rich guy who commits sucicide?

A

Richard Cory

36
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Which poem is about a blind guy asking god why am I blind?

A

When I consider how my light is spent

37
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Which poet had the theme of nature?

A

William Wordsworth

38
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Which poem wrote about death alot?

A

Emily Dickinson

39
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Which poet talked about entropy, doom and extinction?

A

Frost

40
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Which poet talked about courtly love?

A

Donne

41
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Which poet was around when the would shifted from mid evil to modern world?

A

Donne