English: Poets & Poetry

Question 1

,Nationality, Time Period, Era, Major Works (3), Minor Works (5)

Walt Whitman

Answer 1

• Country: American (New York)
• Time Period: 1820 - 1890
• Era: Victorian Era and Civil War
• Major Works:
  
  • O Captain! My Captain:
  • Song of Myself
  • Leaves of Grass (Collection)
• Minor Works:
  
  • I Hear America Singing
  • A Noiseless Patient Spider”
  • Beat! Beat! Drums!
  • Sparkles from the Wheel
  • “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer

Question 2

Identify the poet:

When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer (1867):

When I heard the learn’d astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

Answer 2

Walt Whitman, American Victorian-era Poet

What a good one. Essentially, “I think this scientist is boring, I’m getting bored listening to him talk about astronomy, so I went outside to look at the stars myself.”

Question 3

Identify the poet:

Sparkles from the Wheel (1871)

WHERE the city’s ceaseless crowd moves on the livelong day,
Withdrawn I join a group of children watching, I pause aside with
them.

By the curb toward the edge of the flagging,
A knife-grinder works at his wheel sharpening a great knife,
Bending over he carefully holds it to the stone, by foot and knee,
With measur’d tread he turns rapidly, as he presses with light but
firm hand,
Forth issue then in copious golden jets,
Sparkles from the wheel. […]

Answer 3

Walt Whitman, American Victorian-era Poet

(This is the knife-grinder’s poem. Whitman is watching knives sharpened)

Question 4

Identify the poet and era:

I Hear America Singing (1860)

I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,
Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong,
The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam,
The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work,
The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the deckhand singing on the steamboat deck, […]

Read the full poem: here

Answer 4

Walt Whitman, American Victorian-era Poet

This, like many Whitman poems, was written in the lead-up to the American Civil war, which started the following year.

Question 5

Identify the poet:

Song of Myself (1855)

I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.

My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same,
I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death. […]

(Know the bolded passage.)

Read the full poem: here

Answer 5

Walt Whitman, American Victorian-era Poet

Question 6

Leaves of Grass is a collection of poems by this poet.

Answer 6

Walt Whitman, American Victorian Poet

Read all of Leaves of Grass: here

Question 7

Identify the poet:

Beat! Beat! Drums! (1861)

Beat! beat! drums!—blow! bugles! blow!
Through the windows—through doors—burst like a ruthless force,
Into the solemn church, and scatter the congregation,
Into the school where the scholar is studying,
Leave not the bridegroom quiet—no happiness must he have now with his bride,
Nor the peaceful farmer any peace, ploughing his field or gathering his grain,
So fierce you whirr and pound you drums—so shrill you bugles blow. […]

Read the full poem: here

Answer 7

Walt Whitman, American Victorian-era Poet

(The poem directly addresses the instruments of a military band, telling drums and bugle horns to raise the alarm of war immediately after the first Civil War battle.)

Question 8

Identify the poet:

A Noiseless Patient Spider (1868):

A noiseless patient spider,
I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated,
Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,
It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself,
Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.

And you O my soul where you stand,
Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space,
Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them,
Till the bridge you will need be form’d, till the ductile anchor hold,
Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul.

Answer 8

Walt Whitman, American Victorian-era Poet

This poem is about connecting with the world as a spider spins its web.

Question 9

Identify the poet, era, and the subject of the poem.

O Captain! My Captain! (1865)

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

Know the bolded passage.

Read the full poem: here

Answer 9

• Walt Whitman, Victorian-era Poet
• The poem memorializes Abraham Lincoln

This was written the year Lincoln was assassinated and Civil War ended.

Question 10

Country, TIme Period and Era, Three Major Works, Three Minor Works

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Answer 10

• Country: British
• Time Period: 1800 - 1890 (Victorian Era)
• Known Best For: Idylls of the King (a collection of twelve poems about King Arthur); Charge of the Light Brigade (a poem about the Crimean War); and Ulysses, (a poem about an elderly Odysseus’ decision to abandon his throne and search for adventure.)
• Lesser Known Works: In Memoriam is an elegy dedicated to his friend Arthur Henry Hallam; Crossing the Bar; The Princess

FREQUENT: Idylls of the King; Charge of the Light Brigade; Ulysses

RARE: In Memoriam, Crossing the Bar, The Princess

Question 11

This poet’s collection of twelve works about King Arthur is called Idylls of the King

Answer 11

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, British Victorian-Era Poet

Victorian-era Poet (1800s)

Question 12

Idylls of the King (1859), a collection of twelve poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson is about this fabled European king.

Answer 12

King Arthur

Question 13

Identify:

This British poet served as Poet Laureate during much of the Victorian Age. He was greatly affected by the death of his good friend, Arthur Henry Hallam, and often wrote poems about the legend of King Arthur. His works include Idylls of the King.

(A “Who Am I?” question)

Answer 13

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, British Victorian-Era Poet

Question 14

Identify the poem, poet, and the war referenced here:

“Half a league, half a league, / Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death / Rode the six hundred.”

“Not though the soldier knew / Someone had blundered. Theirs not to make reply, / Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. Into the valley of Death / Rode the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them, / Cannon to left of them, / Cannon in front of them / Volleyed and thundered;

(All three of these sections have been asked about.)

Full poem: Here

Answer 14

Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson (British Victorian-Era Poet)

The poem references the Crimean War.

Question 15

Identify the poet, name of the poem, and the character speaking:

• “I cannot rest from my travel; I will drink life to the lees.”
• “This is my son, mine own Telemachus, to whom I leave the scepter and the isle … “

Full poem: Here

Answer 15

Ulysses (the Roman name for the Greek Odysseus) is speaking in Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Question 16

This poet is best known for Charge of the Light Brigade, Ulysses, and Idylls of the King.

Answer 16

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, British Victorian-Era Poet

Question 17

This poet’s lesser known works include In Memoriam, The Princess, and Crossing the Bar.

Answer 17

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, British Victorian-Era Poet

Question 18

Maya Angelou

Answer 18

• Nationality: American, (St. Louis, Missouri)
• Time Period: 1930 - 2015
• Best Known Works: The 1969 autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and the poems And Still I Rise and Harlem Hopscotch.

Question 19

Identify the poet:

• Her diverse career includes being the first black streetcar conductor in San Francisco.
• In 1954, she turned to acting before she started writing while also working as northern coordinator and fund raiser for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
• In the 1960s, she began to focus on her writing, and in 1970 her first autobiographical work became a best seller and was nominated for a National Book Award.

Answer 19

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Question 20

Identify the poet and poem:

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
’Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.

Full poem: here

Answer 20

Still I Rise (1978) by Maya Angelou

Question 21

Identify the poet and poem:

One foot down, then hop! It’s hot.
Good things for the ones that’s got.
Another jump, now to the left.
Everybody for hisself.

In the air, now both feet down.
Since you black, don’t stick around.
Food is gone, the rent is due,
Curse and cry and then jump two.

All the people out of work,
Hold for three, then twist and jerk.
Cross the line, they count you out.
That’s what hopping’s all about.

Both feet flat, the game is done.
They think I lost. I think I won.

Full poem: here

Answer 21

Harlem Hopscotch (1969) by Maya Angelou

Question 22

Identify the author of the two quotes below:

“How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!” and
“Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.”

Answer 22

American Poet, Maya Angelou

Question 23

Nationaity, Time Period, Themes:

Emily Dickinson

Answer 23

• Nationality: American, Amherst Massachussetts
• Time Period: 1830 - 1890ish
• Known For: Poetry about death and nature, writing untitled poems with unusual punctuation and capitalization, the poem “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”

(And a few others, notably: “I Heard a Fly Buzz - When I Died”; “Hope is the Thing with Feathers”; and “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass.”)

Question 24

List of Works (11 Total):

Emily Dickinson

Answer 24

• I Heard a Fly Buzz - When I Died
• Because I Could Not Stop for Death
• Hope is the Thing with Feathers
• A Narrow Fellow in the Grass
• I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed
• I Never Saw a Moor
• There’s Been a Death in the Opposite House
• I Felt a Funeral in My Brain
• The Last Night that She Lived
• Much Madness is Divinest Sense
• I’m Nobody - Are You?

Question 25

# Identify the poet: **I heard a Fly buzz - when I died -** The Stillness in the Room Was like the Stillness in the Air - Between the Heaves of Storm - The Eyes around - had wrung them dry - And Breaths were gathering firm For that last Onset - when the King Be witnessed - in the Room - I willed my Keepsakes - Signed away What portion of me be Assignable - and then it was There interposed a Fly - With Blue - uncertain - stumbling Buzz - Between the light - and me - And then the Windows failed - and then I could not see to see - | (This is the full text of the poem.)

Answer 25

American Poet, Emily Dickinson

Question 26

# Identify the poet and **how Death is personified**: **Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me –** The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality. We slowly drove – He knew no haste And I had put away My labor and my leisure too, For His Civility – We passed the School, where Children strove At Recess – in the Ring – We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain – We passed the Setting Sun – ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47652/because-i-could-not-stop-for-death-479)

Answer 26

American Poet, Emily Dickinson (1863) | Death is personified here as a **gentleman**. ## Footnote (Dickinson's poetry tended to be untitled, they contained abrupt lines, used slant rhymes, strange capitalization, and... - punctuation -.)

Question 27

# Identify the poet: **“Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all -** And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard - And sore must be the storm - That could abash the little Bird That kept so many warm - I’ve heard it in the chillest land - And on the strangest Sea - Yet - never - in Extremity, It asked a crumb - of me. | (This is the entire poem.)

Answer 27

American Poet, Emily Dickinson (1861) ## Footnote (Dickinson's poetry tended to be untitled, they contained abrupt lines, used slant rhymes, strange capitalization, and... - punctuation -.)

Question 28

# Identify the poet and **subject of this poem:** **A narrow Fellow in the Grass** Occasionally rides - You may have met him? Did you not His notice instant is - The Grass divides as with a Comb, A spotted Shaft is seen, And then it closes at your Feet And opens further on - Have passed I thought a Whip Lash Unbraiding in the Sun When stooping to secure it It wrinkled And was gone - But never met this Fellow Attended or alone Without a tighter Breathing And Zero at the Bone.

Answer 28

American Poet, Emily Dickinson (1865) | This poem is about a **snake**.

Question 29

# Identify the poet: **I never saw a moor;** I never saw the sea, Yet know I how the heather looks And what a billow be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in heaven. Yet certain am I of the spot As if the checks were given.

Answer 29

American Poet, Emily Dickinson (1865)

Question 30

# Identify the poet: **There's been a death in the opposite house** As lately as today. I know it by the numb look Such houses have alway. The neighbours rustle in and out, The doctor drives away. A window opens like a pod, Abrupt, mechanically; Somebody flings a mattress out, - The children hurry by; They wonder if It died on that, - I used to when a boy. ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://americanliterature.com/author/emily-dickinson/poem/theres-been-a-death-in-the-opposite-house)

Answer 30

American Poet, Emily Dickinson (1863)

Question 31

# Identify the poet: **I taste a liquor never brewed –** From Tankards scooped in Pearl – Not all the Frankfort Berries Yield such an Alcohol! ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://poets.org/poem/i-taste-liquor-never-brewed-214)

Answer 31

American Poet, Emily Dickinson (1861)

Question 32

# Identify the Poet: **I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too?** Then there’s a pair of us! Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one’s name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog! | (This is the entire poem)

Answer 32

Emily Dickinson, American Poet (1861)

Question 33

# identify the poet: This poet fell in love with a Presbyterian minister. During the last several years of their life, they **dressed all in white and refused to leave their home**. They wrote many poems, most of which were **published after their death.**

Answer 33

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

Question 34

This American poet **did not give a title** to their poems. They often wrote on the themes of **death and nature** and lived their entire life in **Amherst, Massachusetts**, where they wrote the poem **“Because I could not stop for death.”**

Answer 34

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

Question 35

# Nationality, Time Period, Movement, Known For, Poems (5): Langston Hughes

Answer 35

* **Nationality:** American * **Time Period:** 1900 - 1970 * **Movement**: Harlem Renaissance * **Known For:** Being a leader in the Harlem Renaissance movement and developing *jazz poetry*; writing the poems *Mother to Son*, *The Weary Blues*, ***Cross***, *Harlem* (that's the one about a "**dream deferred**"), *The Negro Speaks of Rivers* ## Footnote **Cross**, **Harlem**, The Weary Blues, Mother to Son, The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Question 36

# Identify the Poet: *Weary Blues (1925):* **Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon, I heard a Negro play.** Down on Lenox Avenue the other night By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light He did a lazy sway. . . . He did a lazy sway. . . . To the tune o’ those Weary Blues. With his ebony hands on each ivory key He made that poor piano moan with melody. O Blues! ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47347/the-weary-blues)

Answer 36

Langston Hughes, American Harlem Renaissance Poet

Question 37

# Identify the poet: ***Cross*** (1926): My old man’s a white old man And my old mother’s black. If ever I cursed my white old man I take my curses back. If ever I cursed my black old mother And wished she were in hell, I’m sorry for that evil wish And now I wish her well. My old man died in a fine big house. My ma died in a shack. I wonder where I’m gonna die, Being neither white nor black?

Answer 37

Langston Hughes, American Harlem Renaissance Poet | (Turns out, Hughes died in a small, historic hospital in New York.) ## Footnote (But his ashes are under the lobby of the New York Public Library.)

Question 38

# Identify the poet: *Harlem* (1951): What happens to a **dream deferred**? **Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?** Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over— like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it sags, like a heavy load Or does it *explode?*

Answer 38

Langston Hughes, American Harlem Renaissance Poet

Question 39

# Identify the poet: ***Mother to Son*** (1922): **Well, son, I’ll tell you: Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.** It’s had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor— Bare. But all the time I’se been a-climbin’ on, And reachin’ landin’s, And turnin’ corners, And sometimes goin’ in the dark Where there ain’t been no light. So boy, don’t you turn back. ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47347/the-weary-blues)

Answer 39

Langston Hughes, American Harlem Renaissance Poet

Question 40

# Identify the Poet: *The Negro Speaks of Rivers* (1921): I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. **My soul has grown deep like the rivers.** I’ve known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44428/the-negro-speaks-of-rivers)

Answer 40

Langston Hughes, American Harlem Renaissance Poet

Question 41

# Nationality, TIme Period, Known For, Major Works (3), Minor Works (6): Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Answer 41

* **Nationality:** American, born in Portland, Massachussetts (now Maine) * **Time Period:** 1810 - 1880 * **Known For:** Being a **Fireside Poet** - one of a group of five popular poets in second half of the 1800s. Families would read their poems around the fireplace. * **Major Works:** Evangeline, Song of Hiawatha, Paul Revere's Ride. * **Less Frequent Works:** * A Psalm of Life * The Arrow and The Song * The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls * The Cross of Snow * The Village Blacksmith * The Courtship of Miles Standish

Question 42

# Identify the poet and the **war referenced:** *Paul Revere's Ride:* **Listen, my children, and you shall hear** Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five: Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year. | (Know the first lines bolded.)

Answer 42

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Fireside Poet | The poem is about the **American Revolution.** ## Footnote The Fireside Poets are America's cozy poets - they were so popular that families would read their poems around the fire.

Question 43

# Identify the poet: *A Psalm of Life:* **Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem.** Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. [.......] Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. ## Footnote (This is my favorite poem - I had to recite it in my high school English class. Read the full poem: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44644/a-psalm-of-life))

Answer 43

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Fireside Poet ## Footnote The Fireside Poets are America's cozy poets - they were so popular that families would read their poems around the fire.

Question 44

*The Arrow and the Song:* **I shot an arrow into the air,** It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Answer 44

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Fireside Poet ## Footnote The Fireside Poets are America's cozy poets - they were so popular that families would read their poems around the fire.

Question 45

# Identify the poet, poem, and location with which the statue is related: Statue of Evangeline

Answer 45

Associated with the poem **Evangeline** by **Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.** The statue is located in **Louisiana**.

Question 46

This poet is the author of the epic poem ***The Song of Hiawatha***

Answer 46

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Fireside Poet

Question 47

# Identify the poet: *The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls*: **The tide rises, the tide falls,** The twilight darkens, the curlew calls; Along the sea-sands damp and brown The traveller hastens toward the town, And the tide rises, the tide falls. Darkness settles on roofs and walls, But the sea, the sea in the darkness calls; The little waves, with their soft, white hands, Efface the footprints in the sands, And the tide rises, the tide falls. The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls; The day returns, but nevermore Returns the traveller to the shore, And the tide rises, the tide falls. | (This is the entire poem.)

Answer 47

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Fireside Poet

Question 48

# Identify the poet: ***The Village Blacksmith:* Under a spreading chestnut tree** The village smithy stands; The Smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can And looks the whole world in the face For he owes not any man. Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow; You can hear him swing his heavy sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell, When the evening sun is low. ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://allpoetry.com/The-Village-Blacksmith)

Answer 48

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Fireside Poet

Question 49

# Identify the poet, poem, and **setting**: "**This is the forest primeval**. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.

Answer 49

Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Fireside Poet The poem features two lovers seperated in **Arcadia** (in present-day Canada)

Question 50

This poet's major works include *Paul Revere's Ride*, *The Song of Hiawatha*, and *Evangeline.*

Answer 50

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Fireside Poet

Question 51

This poet's lesser known works include T*he Courtship of Miles Standish, The Cross of Snow, The Village Blacksmith, The Arrow and the Song*, and *The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls.*

Answer 51

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Fireside Poet

Question 52

# Identify the poet and the subject of the poem: ***The Cross of Snow:*** In the long, sleepless watches of the night, A gentle face — the face of one long dead — Looks at me from the wall, where round its head The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light. Here in this room she died; and soul more white Never through martyrdom of fire was led To its repose; nor can in books be read The legend of a life more benedight. There is a mountain in the distant West That, sun-defying, in its deep ravines Displays a cross of snow upon its side. Such is the cross I wear upon my breast These eighteen years, through all the changing scenes And seasons, changeless since the day she died.

Answer 52

* Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Fireside Poet * The poem refers to the **death of Longfellow's wife, Fanny**

Question 53

# Identify this poet: This person was the first American poet to have his statue placed in the famed **Poet's Corner in Westminster Abby**. During his lifetime, he was one of America's most celebrated authors. He gained his fame by writing such poems as "**Evangeline**," "**The Village Blacksmith**," and "**Hiawatha**."

Answer 53

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Question 54

# Nationality, Time Period, Movement, Major Works (3), Lesser Works (2): John Keats

Answer 54

* **Nationality:** British * **Time Period**: 1795 - 1820 (died of tuberculosis at 25 years old.) * **Movement:** Romantic Era * **Known For:** **Ode on a Grecian Urn**, Ode to a Nightingale, When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be * **Lesser Known:** Endymion, Looking in to Chapman's Homer, Ode on Melancholy

Question 55

This poet's major works include **Ode on a Grecian Urn**, Ode to a Nightingale, and When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be.

Answer 55

John Keats, British Romantic Poet

Question 56

This poet's lesser known works include "**Ode on Melancholy**," "**Endymion**," and "**Looking in to Chapman's Homer.**"

Answer 56

John Keats, British Romantic Poet

Question 57

# Identify the poet, know the first and last lines: *When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be* (1818): **When I have fears that I may cease to be** Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain, Before high-pilèd books, in charactery, Hold like rich garners the full ripened grain; When I behold, upon the night’s starred face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows with the magic hand of chance; And when I feel, fair creature of an hour, That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love—then on the shore **Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.** | (That's the entire poem.)

Answer 57

John Keats, British Romantic Poet | (He 'ceased to be' due to tuberculosis three years later.)

Question 58

# Identify the poet, poem, and movement: Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: [...] When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, **"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."** ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44477/ode-on-a-grecian-urn)

Answer 58

*Ode on a Grecian Urn* (1819) by John Keats, British Romantic Poet

Question 59

# Identify the poet and movement: ***Ode to a Nightingale***: My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness,— That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease. ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44479/ode-to-a-nightingale)

Answer 59

John Keats, British Romantic Poet

Question 60

# Identify the poet and movement: *Endymion*: **A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:** Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. | (Know any bolded lines.) ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44469/endymion-56d2239287ca5)

Answer 60

John Keats, British Romantic Poet

Question 61

# Identify the poet of this lesser-known work: ***On First Looking in to Chapman's Homer:*** Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific—and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise— Silent, upon a peak in Darien. | (This is the entire poem.)

Answer 61

John Keats, British Romantic Poet

Question 62

# Nationality, Time Period, Known For, Poems (8) Robert Frost

Answer 62

* **Nationality:** American (from San Francisco) * **Time Period:** 1870 - 1960 * **Known For:** his depictions of rural New England life, his grasp of colloquial speech, and his poetry about ordinary people in everyday situations ## Footnote Works: Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening, The Road Not Taken, Fire and Ice, Birches, Nothing Gold Can Stay, Mending Wall, The Death of the Hired Man, After Apple Picking

Question 63

# Identify the poet: **The Death of the Hired Man** (1914) Mary sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table Waiting for Warren. When she heard his step, She ran on tip-toe down the darkened passage To meet him in the doorway with the news And put him on his guard. ‘Silas is back.’ ## Footnote This is a long one. Almost like a short story. Read more: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44261/the-death-of-the-hired-man).

Answer 63

Robert Frost, American Poet ## Footnote (This story is about Warren and Mary, a farmer and his wife that welcome an elderly farmhand, Silas, back to the farm to die.)

Question 64

# Identify the poet by the **two bolded passages**: *Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening:* (1922) **Whose woods these are I think I know.** His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound’s the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, **And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.**

Answer 64

Robert Frost, American Poet

Question 65

# Identify the poet by the bolded opening and ending lines: ***The Road Not Taken:*** (1916) **Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,** And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: **Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.**

Answer 65

Robert Frost, American Poet

Question 66

# Identify the poet: ***Birches:*** When I see birches bend to left and right Across the lines of straighter darker trees, I like to think some boy’s been swinging them. But swinging doesn’t bend them down to stay As ice-storms do. Often you must have seen them Loaded with ice a sunny winter morning After a rain. They click upon themselves As the breeze rises, and turn many-colored As the stir cracks and crazes their enamel. ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44260/birches)

Answer 66

Robert Frost, American Poet

Question 67

# Identify the poet: *Fire & Ice:* **Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice.** From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. | (This is the entire poem.)

Answer 67

Robert Frost, American Poet

Question 68

# Identify the Poet: **After Apple Picking** (1914): My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Toward heaven still, And there's a barrel that I didn't fill Beside it, and there may be two or three Apples I didn't pick upon some bough. But I am done with apple-picking now. Essence of winter sleep is on the night, The scent of apples: I am drowsing off. [...] ## Footnote Read more: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44259/after-apple-picking)

Answer 68

Robert Frost, American Poet

Question 69

# Identify the poet: ***Nothing Gold Can Stay**:* Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

Answer 69

Robert Frost, American Poet

Question 70

# Identify the poet: ***Mending Wall:*** **Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,** That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. [...] He said it for himself. I see him there Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed. He moves in darkness as it seems to me, Not of woods only and the shade of trees. He will not go behind his father’s saying, **And he likes having thought of it so well He says again, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’** ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44266/mending-wall)

Answer 70

Robert Frost, American Poet

Question 71

Identify the poet that wrote *Mending Wall* and *After Apple-Picking.*

Answer 71

Robert Frost, American Poet

Question 72

Name the five Fireside Poets

Answer 72

* Oliver Wendell Holmes * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow * William Cullen Bryant * John Greenleaf Whittier * James Russell Lowell (not mentioned in any questions) | American, 19th Cen. Poets with three names? Probably Fireside.

Question 73

# Country, Time Period, Movement, Known For (2 Poems and a Quote) Oliver Wendell Holmes

Answer 73

* **Country:** American (from Boston) * **Time Period:** 1810 - 1890 * **Movement:** Fireside Poet * **Known For:** Old Ironsides, The Chambered Nautilus; the quote, "**The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men**." ## Footnote (Fun Fact: His son, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. is one of the most cited U.S. Supreme Court justices in American history known for his "pithy" opinions.)

Question 74

# Identify the poet **Old Ironsides** (1830) Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky; Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon’s roar;— The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more! Her deck, once red with heroes’ blood Where knelt the vanquished foe, When winds were hurrying o’er the flood And waves were white below, No more shall feel the victor’s tread, Or know the conquered knee;— The harpies of the shore shall pluck The eagle of the sea! ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46547/old-ironsides)

Answer 74

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Fireside Poet ## Footnote (Wendell wrote this after learning the famous ship USS Constitution from the War of 1812 would be decomissioned.)

Question 75

# Identify the poet **The Chambered Nautilus** (1858): This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main,— The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl; Wrecked is the ship of pearl! And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed,— Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed! [...] ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44379/the-chambered-nautilus)

Answer 75

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Fireside Poet

Question 76

# Nationality, Time Period, Known For: Edgar Allen Poe

Answer 76

* **Nationality:** * **Time Period:** have been called the "father of the detective story," although I am most famous for my tales of horror including "The Pit and The Pendulum Edgar Allan Poe gained the title of “Father of the American Detective Story” when he introduced his detective C. Auguste Dupin in the short story Murders in the Rue Morgue, published in 1841.

Question 77

# Nationality, Time Period, Known For: Edgar Allen Poe

Answer 77

* The Cask of Amontillado * The Fall of the House of Usher * The Raven * The Black Cat * The Tell-Tale Heart * The Masque of the Red Death * Murders in the Rue Morgue * Annabel Lee

Question 78

Name the Poe short story in which an unstable narrator murders his landlord and buries the body parts below the floor.

Answer 78

The Tell-Tale Heart

Answer 79

It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know, By the name of Annabel Lee. And this maiden she lived with no other thought, Than to love and be loved by me."

Question 80

The Raven

Answer 80

* The ravens can say "Nevermore" * is name of the lost love to whom Edgar Allan Poe refers in the following line from “The Raven”: “For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name [blank] – Nameless here for evermore.

Question 81

I am a character created by Edgar Allan Poe. I seek revenge against Fortunato for the thousand injuries he’s done to me.

Answer 81

Montressor, (*The Cask of Amontillado*)

Question 82

William Blake

Answer 82

* **Country:** British * **Time Period:** 1760 - 1830 * **Movement:** Romanticism * **Known For:** Two collections of poetry in "**Songs of Innocence**" and "**Songs of Experience**"; the poems "*The Tyger*" and "*The Lamb*" | Paintings: Ancient of Days; Nebuchadnezzar ## Footnote Poems: The Tyger, The Lamb; published in "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience"

Question 83

This **Romantic era figure** who was a religious non-conformist, a poet, painter and illustrator. His works include the poems “**The Tyger**” and “**The Lamb**” and paintings, Ancient of Days and Nebuchadnezzar.

Answer 83

William Blake, British Romanticist Poet and Artist

Question 84

# Identify the poet, nationality, and movement: *The Tyger:* (1794) Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; **What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry?** In what distant deeps or skies. Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand, dare seize the fire? And what shoulder, & what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat. What dread hand? & what dread feet? | (KNOW THE BOLD.) ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43687/the-tyger)

Answer 84

William Blake, British Romanticist Poet and Artist | (Know the bolded passage!)

Question 85

# Identify the poet, nationality, movement, and **theme**: *The Lamb (1789):* Little Lamb who made thee Dost thou know who made thee Gave thee life & bid thee feed. By the stream & o'er the mead; Gave thee clothing of delight, Softest clothing wooly bright; Gave thee such a tender voice, Making all the vales rejoice! Little Lamb who made thee Dost thou know who made thee [.....] ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43670/the-lamb-56d222765a3e1)

Answer 85

William Blake, British Romanticist Poet and Artist This poem is about **innocence.**

Question 86

Identify British Romanticist William Blake's two published collections of poems.

Answer 86

**Song of Innocence** and **Song of Experience**

Question 87

# Country, Time Period, Movement, Known For, Major Works (3), Minor (2) John Donne

Answer 87

* **Country:** British * **Time Period:** 1570-1630ish * **Movement**: **Metaphysical** * **Known For:** Being highly religious and even became an Anglican priest. He wrote **“Death Be Not Proud**" and "**Meditation 17**" that includes the poem "**No Man is an Island**." "Beaten Gold or a compass are two conceits used in A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning | Buzz in for "British metaphysical poet" IMMEDIATELY ## Footnote **Major**: Death Be Not Proud, No Man Is an Island, Meditation XVII, **Minor**: Break of Day, Valediction: Forbidden Mourning

Question 88

# Identify the poet and movement: *Sonnet X* (or, "*Death Be Not Proud*") (1609) **Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;** For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery. Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then? One short sleep past, we wake eternally And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

Answer 88

John Donne, British Metaphysical Poet | (Recognize that opening line. It's quoted often.) ## Footnote (The **Metaphysical poets** were a group of 17th-century English poets. Their work is known for using complex images and **conceits**, and for using intellectual arguments to express emotions)

Question 89

# Identify the poet and movement; know the bold passages. No Man is an Island (1623): **No man is an island, Entire of itself;** Every man is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, As well as if a promontory were: As well as if a manor of thy friend's Or of thine own were. **Any man's death diminishes me, Because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.** | (This is PART of the larger work, Meditation XVII)

Answer 89

John Donne, British Metaphysical Poet

Question 90

# Identify the poet, movement, and the **book title** the bolded inspired: Meditation XVII (1623): PERCHANCE he **for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him**; and perchance I may think myself so much better than I am, as that they who are about me, and see my state, may have caused it to toll for me, and I know not that. The church is Catholic, universal, so are all her actions; all that she does belongs to all. [...] | (This CONTAINS the poem "No Man is an Island" later on) ## Footnote Read the full text: [here](https://www.online-literature.com/donne/409/)

Answer 90

John Donne, British Metaphysical Poet The passage inspired the title of "**For Whom the Bell Tolls**" by **Ernest Hemingway.** | (Donne wrote this while suffering from a nearly fatal cold and fever.)

Question 91

# Identify the poet: **Break of Day** (1633): ‘Tis true, ‘tis day, what though it be? O wilt thou therefore rise from me? Why should we rise because ‘tis light? Did we lie down because ‘twas night? Love, which in spite of darkness brought us hither, Should in despite of light keep us together. [...] Must business thee from hence remove? Oh, that’s the worst disease of love, The poor, the foul, the false, love can Admit, but not the busied man. He which hath business, and makes love, doth do Such wrong, as when a married man doth woo. ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](hhttps://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51783/break-of-day)

Answer 91

John Donne, British Metaphysical Poet ## Footnote (This starts as a traditional love poem about lovers seperating at dawn, but then takes a turn into a woman complaining about the man's priorities.)

Question 92

# Literary Term: This is a literary term defined as an elaborate simile or metaphor often found in **metaphysical poetry** that makes a **comparison between two significantly different things**.

Answer 92

Conceit

Question 93

# Identify the poet, movement, and identify a conceit used: **A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning** (1611) As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say The breath goes now, and some say, No: So let us melt, and make no noise, No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move; 'Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love. [...] Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do. [...]

Answer 93

John Donne, British Metaphysical Poet * Donne uses the conceit of a **compass** to compare two souls. In this metaphor, one leg of the compass is fixed and represents one soul, while the other leg is free to move and symbolizes the other soul. The fixed foot remains stable and steadfast, much like one soul in the relationship, while the other foot can roam and explore, yet it is always connected to the fixed foot * The other conceit is **beaten gold**: This process of beating gold is a metaphor for the souls stretching and expanding without breaking. The choice of gold as the metaphor adds a layer of preciousness and value to the nature of their connection. | (The question was "name two conceits from 'A Valediction.") ## Footnote This is a love poem from Donne to his wife before a trip from Britain to continental Europe.

Question 94

# Country, Time Period, Known For: Rudyard Kipling

Answer 94

* **Country:** British India, born in Bombay, India * **Time Period:** 1865 - 1940 * **Known For:** Writing **The Jungle Book** (a story about a child being raised by jungle animal friends), writing a 1888 collection of children's short stories in **Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories**; racist short story Gunga Din; Rikki Tikki Tavi; Kim; The Man Who Would Be King ## Footnote The Jungle Book (Collection); Wee Willie Winkie (Collection), Rikki Tikki Tavi, Gunga Din, The Man Who Would Be King, Kim

Question 95

# Additional Information: (Known for which garment? Relative? Award?) Rudyard Kipling

Answer 95

* Kipling is known for wearing and collecting **pith helmets** (round, colonial British expedition hats they'd wear on safari - you know the ones.) * His cousin, **Stanley Baldwin**, became **prime minister** of England. * Won the **Nobel Prize** in 1907. * Kipling used his influence to get his only son **John Kipling** an officer position in the British military prior to WW1 despite his disqualification for poor eyesight. He was killed in battle at age 18.

Question 96

# Identify the poet. know the last line: Gunga Din (1890) **'E would dot an' carry one Till the longest day was done, An' 'e didn't seem to know the use o' fear. If we charged or broke or cut, You could bet your bloomin' nut, 'E'd be waitin' fifty paces right flank rear.** [...] ’E carried me away To where a dooli lay, An’ a bullet come an’ drilled the beggar clean. ’E put me safe inside, An’ just before ’e died, 'I ’ope you liked your drink,’ sez Gunga Din. So I’ll meet ’im later on At the place where ’e is gone— Where it’s always double drill and no canteen. ’E’ll be squattin’ on the coals Givin’ drink to poor damned souls, An’ I’ll get a swig in hell from Gunga Din! Yes, Din! Din! Din! You Lazarushian-leather Gunga Din! Though I’ve belted you and flayed you, By the livin’ Gawd that made you, **You’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din!** ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46783/gunga-din)

Answer 96

Rudyard Kipling, British (Colonial Indian) Poet | Know the line **"You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din."** ## Footnote This vaguely **racist** poem is about a native Indian Hindu water boy that always brought the British soldiers water, no matter what, and then was ultimately killed.

Question 97

This is a 1894 collection of short stories that detail the adventures of several animal characters, like **Shere Khan the Tiger**, **Baloo the Bear**, and the boy **Mowgli**, who was raised by wolves. It takes place in the forests of India and was written by **Rudyard Kipling**.

Answer 97

**The Jungle Book** by Rudyard Kipling, British (Colonial Indian) Poet

Question 98

# Identify the title and author: This is an **1888 short story about two British colonizers** that convince natives in Kafirstan (Afghanistan) that they are gods and become kings. Their greed and hubris becomes their undoing.

Answer 98

**The Man Who Would Be King** (1888) by Rudyard Kipling

Question 99

# Identify the title and author: This is an 1894 short story within Rudyard Kipling's collection "The Jungle Book" about the **adventures of a mongoose** as he battles against a scheming cobra.

Answer 99

**Rikki Tikki Tavi** (1894), by Rudyard Kipling, British (Colonial Indian) Poet

Question 100

# Identify the poet, know the bolded text: "*If*" (1895) **If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you** If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise: | (The poem ends with, "then you're a real man!" or something toxic.)

Answer 100

Rudyard Kipling, British (Colonial Indian) Poet

Question 101

The novel **Kim** about an orphaned Irish boy navigating his way through British-ruled India is written by this author.

Answer 101

Rudyard Kipling, British (Colonial Indian) Poet and Author

Question 102

# Country, Time Period, Movement, Work Known For (1): William Cullen Bryant

Answer 102

* **Country:** American (from Massachussetts) * **Time Period:** 1790 - 1880 * **Movement:** Romanticist, **Fireside Poet** * **Known For:** *Thanatopsis* ## Footnote Thanatopsis

Question 103

# Identify the poet, country, and movement: **Thanatopsis** (1817): To him, who in the love of Nature holds, Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house, Make thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart;— Go forth, under the open sky, and list To Nature’s teachings, while from all around— Earth and her waters, and the depths of air— Comes a still voice— [...]

Answer 103

William Cullen Bryant, American Fireside Romantic Poet ## Footnote (This is just a classic Romantic poem about connection to nature, the inevitability of death, unity with everything, etc. etc.)

Question 104

# Country, Time Period, Movement, **Other Career**: William Carlos Williams | (No works mentioned.)

Answer 104

* **Country:** American (from New Jersey) * **Time Period:** 1880 - 1960 * **Movement:** Imagism * **Known For:** American Imagist poet and medical doctor. No works listed. ## Footnote (Imagism: early-20th-century poetry that favored precision and more direct imagery and clear, sharp language)

Question 105

# Country, Time Period, Era, **Cause of Early Death**, Known For: Christopher "Kit" Marlowe

Answer 105

* **Country:** British * **Time Period:** 1560 - 1590ish * **Era:** Elizabethan-Era * **Cause of Death:** Killed in a barfight in 1593 at age 29. * **Known For:** Being one of the first to explore the use of **blank verse** in his plays, writing the poem "**The Passionate Shephard to His Love**", and the plays "**The Jew of Malta**," "**The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus**," "Edward II," and "**Tamburlaine the Great**." ## Footnote Tamburlaine the Great, The Jew of Malta, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus, "Edward II" (play), The Passionate Shephard to His Love

Question 106

# Identify: This Elizabethan-era poet and playwright is known for their first play **Tamburlaine the Great,** (1587) loosely based on the life of Central Asian emperor Timur and the play "**King Edward II** (1594)," a gay love story about the relationship between King Edward II of England and his lover, Piers Gaveston. | (The titles, not plots are important here.)

Answer 106

Christopher "Kit" Marlowe, British Elizabethan-era poet

Question 107

This Elizabethan-era poet and playwright is suspected by some biographers of being a **spy for Queen Elizabeth**'s government and was **killed in a barfight** at age 29.

Answer 107

Christopher "Kit" Marlowe, Elizabeth-era Poet

Question 108

This Elizabethan-era poet and playwright is known for writing **The Jew of Malta,** (1590) a play about a wealthy Jewish merchant that loses his fortune and seeks revenge against the Christian community that wronged him and "Edward II"

Answer 108

Christopher "Kit" Marlowe, British Elizabethan-era poet

Question 109

# Identify the love-bombing poet below: The Passionate Shephard to His Love (1599): **Come live with me and be my love,** And we will all the pleasures prove, That Valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields. And we will sit upon the Rocks, Seeing the Shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow Rivers to whose falls Melodious birds sing Madrigals. And I will make thee beds of Roses And a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of Myrtle; [...] | (Know the bolded first line.) ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44675/the-passionate-shepherd-to-his-love)

Answer 109

Christopher "Kit" Marlowe, British Elizabethan-Era Poet

Question 110

Robert Herrick

Answer 110

* **Country:** British * **Time Period:** 1590-1670ish * **Movement:** **Cavalier Poet** * **Known For:** "Carpe diem" (or "seize the day!") themes and the beauty of the English countryside; author of the poem, "**To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time.**" | Works: To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time ## Footnote Cavalier poet with John Suckling, Richard Lovelace.

Question 111

# Identify the poet and movement; know the bolded: To the Virgins, to Make Much of TIme (1648): **Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying.** The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he’s a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he’s to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse, and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may, go marry; For having lost but once your prime, You may forever tarry.

Answer 111

Robert Herrick, British Cavalier Poet

Question 112

John Milton

Answer 112

* **Country:** British * **Time Period:** 1610 - 1670ish * **Movement:** Renaissance * **Known For:** Going **blind** in the middle of his life (he dictated the epic "**Paradise Lost**" to his daughters). His minor works include "**Il Penseroso**", "**L'Allegro**," and "**Samson Agonistes**." “**When I consider how my light is spent**” the mind is its own place, and in itself/ Can make a Heav’n of hell, a Hell of Heav’n. (paradise lost) | Major Work: Paradise Lost, When I Consider How My Light is Spent ## Footnote Minor Works: Il Penseroso, L'Allegro, Samson Agonistes Note: "When I Consider How My Light is Spent" is also called "On His Blindness"

Question 113

This British poet's lesser-known works include "**Il Peneroso**," "**L'Allegro**," and "**Samson Agonistes**."

Answer 113

John Milton, British Renaissance Poet

Question 114

# Identify the poet and movement; know the bolded line: Sonnet 19 - When I Consider How My Light is Spent (or, "**On His Blindness**") (1655): **When I consider how my light is spent,** Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one Talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my Soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide; “Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?” I fondly ask. But patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies, “God doth not need Either man’s work or his own gifts; who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state Is Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed And post o’er Land and Ocean without rest: They also serve who only stand and wait.”

Answer 114

John Milton, British Renaissance Poet

Question 115

# Identify the poem and author from the bolded text: Is this the Region, this the Soil, the Clime, Said then the lost Arch-Angel, this the seat That we must change for Heav'n, this mournful gloom For that celestial light? Be it so, since he Who now is Sovran can dispose and bid What shall be right: fardest from him his best Whom reason hath equald, force hath made supream Above his equals. Farewel happy Fields Where Joy for ever dwells: Hail horrours, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings A mind not to be chang'd by Place or Time. **The mind is its own place, and in it self Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.** [.....] ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45718/paradise-lost-book-1-1674-version)

Answer 115

**Paradise Lost** by John Milton, British Renaissance Poet ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45718/paradise-lost-book-1-1674-version)

Question 116

# Country, TimePeriod, Movement, **Cause of Early Death**, Known for (4): Percy Bysshe Shelley | (Also know his spouse.)

Answer 116

* **Country:** British * **Time Period:** 1790 - 1820ish * **Movement:** Romanticism * **Known For:** Author of many major works: "**Ozymandias**," "**To a Skylark**," "**Prometheus Unbound**," "**Ode to the West Wind**." * **Cause of Death:** PBS **drowned** on Monday, July 8, 1822 at age 29 in a sudden storm while trying to swim back to his sailboat. * **Spouse:** After his first wife committed suicide, PBS married **Mary Wollstonecraft** in 1816, who then took his name and became Mary Shelley. Yes, *that* Mary Shelley. | (What's with all these poets dying at age 29? Him and Kit Marlowe both.) ## Footnote Ode to the West Wind, Ozymandias, To a Skylark, Prometheus Unbound

Question 117

# Identify the poem and poet from the bolded lines: **O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven**, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou, Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed [...] Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like wither'd leaves to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as from an unextinguish'd hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawaken'd earth **The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?** | (The final line comes up a LOT.)

Answer 117

**Ode to the West Wind** (1819) by Percy Bysshe Shelley, British Romanticist Poet

Question 118

# Identify the poet from the poem's bolded lines: I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is (*the poem's name*), King of Kings; **Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.”**

Answer 118

**Ozymandias** (1817) by Percy Bysshe Shelley, British Romanticist Poet | Bysshe-Shelley wrote this in a friendly competition with a poet friend. ## Footnote "Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!" - Ramesses II ("Ozymandias") arrogantly believes his dominion would endure indefinitely, but the author is looking at the remains of a statue that is crumbling and forgotten amid the nothingness of a desert.

Question 119

# Identify the poem and poet from the bolded passage: **Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert,** That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are bright'ning, Thou dost float and run; Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. [...] ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45146/to-a-skylark)

Answer 119

**To a Skylark** (1820), Percy Bysshe Shelley, British Romanticist Poet | (Note: A-Team incorrectly refers to this poem as "Ode to a Skylark")

Question 120

Percy Bysshe Shelley is the British Romantic poet of *this* 1820 lyrical drama using the mythological character who is bound by Zeus and whose name is used in a play by **Aeschylus**

Answer 120

**Prometheus Unbound** (1820) by Percy Bysshe Shelley, British Romanticist Poet ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45136/prometheus-unbound)

Question 121

Wallace Stevens

Answer 121

* **Country:** American, from Pennsylvania * **Time Period:** 1880 - 1955ish * **Movement:** Modernism (never asked about) * **Known For:** "**The Emperor of Ice Cream,**" published in his poetry collection **Harmonium.** | (No other works are mentioned in A-Team lore.)

Question 122

# Identify the poet: **The Emperor of Ice Cream** (1922): Call the roller of big cigars, The muscular one, and bid him whip In kitchen cups concupiscent curds. Let the wenches dawdle in such dress As they are used to wear, and let the boys Bring flowers in last month's newspapers. Let "be" be finale of seem. The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream. Take from the dresser of deal, Lacking the three glass knobs, that sheet On which she embroidered fantails once And spread it so as to cover her face. If her horny feet protrude, they come To show how cold she is, and dumb. Let the lamp affix its beam. The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream. | (The first part is about life, the second about death.) ## Footnote This is such a challenging poem to understand. Here's a YouTube video on it: [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGQxwyjanug&ab_channel=SixMinuteScholar)

Answer 122

Wallace Stevens, American Modernist Poet

Question 123

Dylan Thomas

Answer 123

* **Country:** Welsh (from Wales) * **Time Period:** 1915 - 1950ish * **Movement:** Modernism (not mentioned) * **Known For:** "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night," "Fern Hill" * **Cause of Death:** Thomas died at age 39 of alcoholism (and potentially undiagnosed diabetes) in New York with $100 to his name. ## Footnote Do not go gentle into that good night; fern hill

Question 124

# Identify the poet: "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" (1947): **Do not go gentle into that good night,** Old age should burn and rave at close of day; **Rage, rage against the dying of the light.** Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night. Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. **Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.**

Answer 124

Dylan Thomas, Welsh Modernist Poet

Question 125

# Identify the poet: "**Fern Hill**" (1945): Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green, The night above the dingle starry, Time let me hail and climb Golden in the heydays of his eyes, And honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple towns And once below a time I lordly had the trees and leaves Trail with daisies and barley Down the rivers of the windfall light. [.....] ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here]https://poets.org/poem/fern-hill)

Answer 125

Dylan Thomas, American Modernist Poet

Question 126

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Answer 126

**Country:** British **Time Period:** 1810 - 1860ish **Movement:** Victorian (not mentioned) **Known For:** Married to fellow poet **Robert Browning**, author of Sonnet 43 ("How do I Love Thee?") and her collection of poems "Sonnets from the Portuguese" companions with robert browning Sonnett" 43 “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways” also know the last line Collection of Poems: Sonnets from the Portuguese

Question 127

# Identify the poet; know the first and last lines: **Sonnets from the Portuguese #43** (1845): **How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.** I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of being and ideal grace. I love thee to the level of every day’s Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for right; I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints. **I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.**

Answer 127

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, British Victorian-era Poet

Question 128

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's most famous poem Sonnet 43: "How Do I Love Thee" is published in *this* collection of poems.

Answer 128

**Sonnets from the Portuguese** (1850) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, British Victorian-era Poet

Question 129

# Country, TIme Period, Movement, Known For (2): Carl Sandburg

Answer 129

**Country:** American (from Chicago) **Time Period:** 1880 - 1970ish **Movement:** Modernist (never mentioned) **Known For:** The poems **Fog** and **Chicago** (where he's from) | (He also won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Abraham Lincoln.) ## Footnote Major Works: Fog, Chicago

Question 130

# Identify the poet: **Fog (1916):** The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. | (That's the end of the poem.)

Answer 130

Carl Sandburg, American Modernist Poet

Question 131

# Identify the poet and poem: Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders: **They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.** And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again. And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of women and children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger. ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/12840/chicago)

Answer 131

**Chicago** (1913) by Carl Sandburg, American Modernist Poet | (Carl is defending his city against its rough reputation.)

Question 132

Gwendolyn Brooks

Answer 132

* **Country:** American (from Topeka, Kansas) * **Time Period:** 1920 - 2000ish * **Movement:** Modernism * **Known For:** Author of **The Lovers of the Poor** and "**We Real Cool**." She was the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her second collection "**Annie Allen**" in 1950. ## Footnote Works: The Lovers of the Poor, We Real Cool

Question 133

# Identify the Poet: **The Lovers of the Poor** (1960): arrive. The Ladies from the Ladies’ Betterment League Arrive in the afternoon, the late light slanting In diluted gold bars across the boulevard brag Of proud, seamed faces with mercy and murder hinting Here, there, interrupting, all deep and debonair, The pink paint on the innocence of fear; Walk in a gingerly manner up the hall. Cutting with knives served by their softest care, Served by their love, so barbarously fair. Whose mothers taught: You’d better not be cruel! You had better not throw stones upon the wrens! [...] ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43317/the-lovers-of-the-poor)

Answer 133

Gwendolyn Brooks, American Modernist Poet ## Footnote (The poem satirizes the rich, white women from the "Ladies' Betterment League" who give superficial charity to the poor.)

Question 134

# Identify the poet: **We Real Cool** (1959): The Pool Players. Seven at the Golden Shovel. We real cool. We Left school. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.

Answer 134

Gwendolyn Brooks, American Modernist Poet ## Footnote (This poem is about seven teenagers hanging out outside a pool hall. They dropped out of school, drink underage, defy authority, and will likely pay for their behavior with their lives.)

Question 135

# Country, Time Period, Known For: Nikki Giovanni

Answer 135

**Country:** American (from Tennessee) **Time Period:** 1940 - present **Known For:** Being a leader in the Black Arts movement, her poem "**Woman**" | Works: Woman

Question 136

# Identify the poet: **Woman (2013):** she wanted to be a blade of grass amid the fields but he wouldn't agree to be a dandelion she wanted to be a robin singing through the leaves but he refused to be her tree [...] she decided to become a woman and though he still refused to be a man she decided it was all right ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://hellopoetry.com/poem/544494/w-o-m-a-n-nikki-giovanni/)

Answer 136

Nikki Giovanni, American Poet

Question 137

# Country, TIme Period, Movement, **Spouse**, Known For (2): Robert Browning

Answer 137

* **Country:** British * **Time Period:** 1810 - 1890ish * **Movement:** Victorian-era * **Known For:** His poems "**The Last Duchess**" and "**The Pied Piper of Hamlin**." He was married to "How Do I Love Thee?" poet **Elizabeth Barrett Browning.** ## Footnote Works: My Last Duchess, Pied Piper of Hamlin

Question 138

# Identify the poet: **My Last Duchess** (1842): **That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,** Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now; Fra Pandolf’s hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands. Will’t please you sit and look at her? I said “Fra Pandolf” by design, for never read Strangers like you that pictured countenance, The depth and passion of its earnest glance, But to myself they turned (since none puts by The curtain I have drawn for you, but I) And seemed as they would ask me, if they durst, How such a glance came there; so, not the first Are you to turn and ask thus. ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43768/my-last-duchess)

Answer 138

Robert Browning, British Victorian Poet ## Footnote (The widowed Duke of Ferrara is looking for a new bride and uses a painting of his deceased wife to strike up a conversation with a guest.)

Question 139

# Identify the poet: **The Pied Piper of Hamelin** (1842): Hamelin Town's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall on the southern side; A pleasanter spot you never spied; But, when begins my ditty, Almost five hundred years ago, To see the townsfolk suffer so From vermin, was a pity. Rats! They fought the dogs, and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles, And eat the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. [....] ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45818/the-pied-piper-of-hamelin)

Answer 139

Robert Browning, British Victorian Poet

Question 140

# Country, TIme Period, Movement, Known For (7): Thomas Hardy

Answer 140

* **Country:** Thomas Hardy * **Time Period:** 1840 - 1930ish * **Movement:** Victorian (never mentioned) * **Known For:** Author of "Return of the Native" "The Men Who Marched Away" (about WWI) “The Darkling Thrush” created a character Clym Yeobright The Return of the Native (Edgon Heath is the setting) British author of The Mayor of Casterbridge, Jude the Obscure, and Far From the Madding Crowd "Channel Firing"

Question 141

# Identify the poet: **The Darkling Thrush** (1899): I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-grey, And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day. The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh Had sought their household fires. The land's sharp features seemed to be The Century's corpse outleant, His crypt the cloudy canopy, The wind his death-lament. The ancient pulse of germ and birth Was shrunken hard and dry, And every spirit upon earth Seemed fervourless as I. ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44325/the-darkling-thrush)

Answer 141

Thomas Hardy, British Victorian Poet ## Footnote (Written in 1899, the poem is reflecting on the end of the 19th Century as a bleak winter, but sees hope in the form of a bird through religious faith.)

Question 142

# Country, TIme Period, Movement, Known For (1): A.E. Housman

Answer 142

* **Country:** British * **Time Period:** 1860 - 1940 * **Movement:** Romantic, but not mentioned. * **Known For:** Author of the poem "**To an Athlete Dying Young**."

Question 143

# Identify the poem, poet, and special occasion occuring in the poem: **The time you won your town the race We chaired you through the market-place;** Man and boy stood cheering by, And home we brought you shoulder-high. Today, the road all runners come, Shoulder-high we bring you home, And set you at your threshold down, Townsman of a stiller town. Smart lad, to slip betimes away From fields where glory does not stay, And early though the laurel grows It withers quicker than the rose. ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46452/to-an-athlete-dying-young)

Answer 143

**To an Athlete Dying Young** by A.E. Housman, British Victorian-era Poet The event described is a **funeral**.

Question 144

# Country, TIme Period, Movement, Known For (3): Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Answer 144

* **Country:** British * **Time Period:** 1770 - 1830 * **Movement:** **Romanticism** * **Known For:** Collaborating with William Wordsworth on the poetry collection that launched the Romaticism movement: **Lyrical Ballads**; author of "**Rime of the Ancient Mariner**" and "**Kubla Khan**." ## Footnote Works: Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Lyrical Ballads (Collection with William Wordsworth)

Question 145

Samuel Taylor Coleridge collaborated with *this* fellow poet on ***Lyrical Ballads**,* a 1798 collection of poems said to start the Romantic movement in England.

Answer 145

William Wordsworth, British Romantic Poet | "Preface to Lyrical Ballads" (1800) is considered the Romantic Manfesto.

Question 146

# Identify the poem and poet: It is an (*part of the title of the poem*), And he stoppeth one of three. 'By thy long grey beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stopp'st thou me? [.....] **Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink.** The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43997/the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner-text-of-1834)

Answer 146

**Rime of the Ancient Mariner** (1798) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British Romanticist Poet ## Footnote This is an ocean adventure gone wrong. The captain accidentally kills an albatross (a bird), a symbol of good luck. The crew starves and dies, and the captain prays and appreciates beauty and nature and survives.

Question 147

# Identify the poem and poet from the bolded line: [.....] Farewell, farewell! but this I tell To thee, thou Wedding-Guest! He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. **He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small;** For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all. The (*title of the poem*), whose eye is bright, Whose beard with age is hoar, Is gone: and now the Wedding-Guest Turned from the bridegroom's door. He went like one that hath been stunned, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn. ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43997/the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner-text-of-1834)

Answer 147

**Rime of the Ancient Mariner** (1798) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British Romanticist Poet | (The saying "an albatross around (one's) neck" comes from this poem.) ## Footnote This is an ocean adventure gone wrong. The captain accidentally kills an albatross (a bird), a symbol of good luck. The crew starves and dies, and the captain prays and appreciates beauty and nature and survives.

Question 148

In **The Rime of the Ancient Mariner** (1798) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a young sailor kills *this* symbol of good luck while en route to the South Pole. The crew ties it around his neck so that he feels guilt, then every crew member dies of starvation, disease, and dehydration.

Answer 148

An Albatross | (The albatross is still used today as a symbol of guilt or weight.)

Question 149

# Identify the poet and know the bolded portions: Kubla Khan (or, "A Vision in a Dream") (1797): **In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree:** **Where Alph, the sacred river, ran** Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round; And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. The shadow of the dome of pleasure Floated midway on the waves; Where was heard the mingled measure From the fountain and the caves. It was a miracle of rare device, **A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!** That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome! those caves of ice! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! **Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise**. ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43991/kubla-khan)

Answer 149

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British Romanticist Poet | (This poem was from STC's trippy, opioid-fueled fever dream.)

Question 150

This is the location of **Kubla Khan's pleasure dome** where people eat **honey-dew** and drink the **milk of Paradise**.

Answer 150

**Xanadu** (from *Kubla Khan* (1797) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British Romanticist Poet.)

Question 151

# Identify the poem: From which the following lyrics are derived: *"To seek the sacred river Alph/ To walk the caves of ice/ To break my fast on honeydew/ And drink the milk of paradise ... "*

Answer 151

**Kubla Khan** (1797) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British Romanticist Poet

Question 152

This poet's tombstone epitaph reads: "Beneath this sod A Poet lies; or that which once was he. O lift one thought in prayer for S.T.C. That he, who many a year with toil of breath. Found Death in Life, may here find Life in Death"

Answer 152

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British Romantic Poet ## Footnote (His coffin was found in a wine cellar beneath St. Michael's Church in London)

Question 153

# Country, TIme Period, Movement, Known For (6): T.S. Elliot

Answer 153

* **Country:** Born American, turned British Citizen * **Time Period:** 1890 - 1965ish * **Movement:** Modernist * **Known For:** Poems about **World War I** and **cats**, the play "**Murder in the Cathedral**" (about the assassination of St. Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canturbury), and the following poems: * "Hollow Men" * "The Wasteland" * "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" * "Journey of the Magi" * "Macavity - The Mystery Cat"

Question 154

# Identify the poet, know the last line: **Hollow Men (1925):** We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats' feet over broken glass In our dry cellar Shape without form, shade without colour, Paralysed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at all-not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men. [...] **This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but with a whimper.** ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://allpoetry.com/the-hollow-men)

Answer 154

T.S. Eliot, American turned British Modernist Poet ## Footnote (This poem, like many of Eliot's, reflects feelings of emptiness and despair in post-WW1 Europe.)

Question 155

# Identify the poet: **The Wasteland** (1922): April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow, feeding A little life with dried tubers. Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade, And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour. Bin gar keine Russin, stamm’ aus Litauen, echt deutsch. And when we were children, staying at the archduke’s, My cousin’s, he took me out on a sled, And I was frightened. He said, Marie, Marie, hold on tight. And down we went. In the mountains, there you feel free. I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter. [.....] ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47311/the-waste-land)

Answer 155

T.S. Eliot, American turned British Modernist Poet | (Yet another WW1 despair poem.) ## Footnote (The opening line, "April is the cruellest month" is meant to contrast "The Canterbury Tales'" opening line about April being a month of rebirth.)

Question 156

In T.S. Eliot's *The Wasteland,* this is the name of Buddha's sermon.

Answer 156

The Fire Sermon | (Just some weird trivia that doesn't fit in anywhere else.)

Question 157

# Identify the poet: **The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock** (1911): Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table; Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: Streets that follow like a tedious argument Of insidious intent To lead you to an overwhelming question ... Oh, do not ask, “What is it?” Let us go and make our visit. In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo. [.....] ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/44212/the-love-song-of-j-alfred-prufrock)

Answer 157

T.S. Eliot, American-turned-British Modernist Poet ## Footnote (This poem, the first ever Eliot published, is about a sexually frustrated middle-aged man who wants to say something to you, the reader of the poem, but is afraid to do so, and ultimately does not.)

Question 158

# Identify the poet: **The Journey of the Magi** (1927): A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.' And the camels galled, sorefooted, refractory, Lying down in the melting snow. There were times we regretted The summer palaces on slopes, the terraces, And the silken girls bringing sherbet. Then the camel men cursing and grumbling and running away, and wanting their liquor and women, And the night-fires going out, and the lack of shelters, And the cities hostile and the towns unfriendly And the villages dirty and charging high prices: A hard time we had of it. At the end we preferred to travel all night, Sleeping in snatches, With the voices singing in our ears, saying That this was all folly. [....] ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://allpoetry.com/the-journey-of-the-magi)

Answer 158

T.S. Eliot, American-turned-British Modernist Poet ## Footnote (The poem describes the terrible conditions through which the Magi traversed to meet baby Jesus after His birth.)

Question 159

# Identify the poet: *This* poet's collection of cat-related poems in ***The Book of Practical Cats*** includes titles such as "*Macavity - The Mystery Cat*," "*Gus - The Theater Cat*" and "*Skimbleshanks - The Railway Cat*" The collection is later used as the basis for the long-running Broadway musical "Cats" by Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Answer 159

T.S. Eliot, American-turned-British Modernist Poet

Question 160

# Country, Time Period, Movement, Known For (5): George Gordon Lord Byron

Answer 160

* **Country:** British * **Time Period:** 1788 - 1824 * **Movement:** Romantic * **Known For:** The poems "**"She Walks in Beauty"**, **"So We'll Go No More a Roving"**, "**Childe Harold's Pilgrimage** the mock epic "**Don Juan**", and the play in blank verse "**Sardanapalus**." * The term "**Byronic Hero**," a brooding, gloomy, mysterious hero is named after Lord Byron. ## Footnote Works: She Walks in Beauty, So We'll Go No More a Roving, Don Juan, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Sardanapalus (play)

Question 161

# Identify the: * **Romantic British poet** born in **London** in 1788 and attended **Trinity College**, Cambridge in 1805. * This poet's personal life was fraught with debt and debauchery. * I was always extremely sensitive about a **birth defect**. * They often wrote of the moody, passionate, remorseful yet unrepentant wanderer, so much so that a **type of hero** has this poet's namesake as a gloomy loner. * Their personal reputation suffered from rumors which led them to leave England. * They fought for Greek independence from Turkey. * They died in 1824 from a **fever**.

Answer 161

George Gordon, Lord Byron, British Romanticist Poet | (The "birth defect" is a misshapen or "club" foot.) ## Footnote (A "Byronic Hero" is a character notable for being sullen, withdrawn, hard to like and hard to know, but usually possessing a rich inner life and a softer side accessible only to a special few. So edgy.)

Question 162

# Identify the poet: She Walks in Beauty (1814): **She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes;** Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impaired the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress, Or softly lightens o’er her face; Where thoughts serenely sweet express, How pure, how dear their dwelling-place. And on that cheek, and o’er that brow, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, The smiles that win, the tints that glow, But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent!

Answer 162

George Gordon, Lord Byron, British Romanticist Poet ## Footnote (Lord Byron sees an stunningly beautiful woman at a party in London in 1814. It's his cousin's wife. *Messy*.)

Question 163

# Identify the poet and recognize the bolded passage: **So We'll Go No More a Roving** (1817): **So, we'll go no more a roving So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, And the moon be still as bright.** For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe, And love itself have rest. Though the night was made for loving, And the day returns too soon, Yet we'll go no more a roving By the light of the moon.

Answer 163

George Gordon, Lord Byron, British Romanticist Poet ## Footnote (The message here to his friend is, "I'm about to turn 30 and I'm feeling old. I can't keep up with the younger partyers like I used to, and I'm *really* feeling it this morning.")

Question 164

# Identify the poet: This poet's longer works include a poem in four parts called "**Childe Harold's Pilgrimage**" (1812) where a partier gets bored of partying and seeks a different life in a foreign land, and the mock epic **Don Juan** (1824), where the author takes the suave, womanizing Spanish folk hero and portrays him as someone easily seduced and manipulated by women. ## Footnote Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: [here](https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5131/5131-h/5131-h.htm) Don Juan: [here](https://www.gutenberg.org/files/21700/21700-h/21700-h.htm)

Answer 164

George Gordon, Lord Byron, British Romanticist Poet

Question 165

# Identify the poet: This poet's play **Sardanapalus** had an extensive impact on the European Romanticist movement, inspiring a painting by Delacroix and musical works by Berlioz, Liszt and Ravel, among others.

Answer 165

George Gordon, Lord Byron, British Romanticist Poet

Question 166

# Country, TIme Period, Movement, Known For (4): e e Cummings

Answer 166

* **Country:** American, from Massachussetts * **Time Period:** 1890 - 1960ish * **Movement:** Modernist (never mentioned) * **Known For:** * Unusual punctuation and a lack of capitalization in his poems and even in his name (like Emily Dickinson - be careful.) * Poem: "Age Old Sticks" * Poem: "Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town" * Poem: "Thy Fingers May Early Flowers Of" * Poem: "In Just -- "

Question 167

# Identify the poet: "**Thy fingers make early flowers of**" (1923): Thy fingers make early flowers of all things. thy hair mostly the hours love: a smoothness which sings,saying (though love be a day) do not fear,we will go amaying. thy whitest feet crisply are straying. Always thy moist eyes are at kisses playing, whose strangeness much says;singing (though love be a day) for which girl art thou flowers bringing? To be thy lips is a sweet thing and small. Death,Thee i call rich beyond wishing if this thou catch, else missing. (though love be a day and life be nothing,it shall not stop kissing).

Answer 167

e e Cummings, American Modernist Poet

Question 168

# Identify the poet: **in Just --** (1920) in Just- spring when the world is mud- luscious the little lame balloonman whistles far and wee and eddieandbill come running from marbles and piracies and it's spring when the world is puddle-wonderful the queer old balloonman whistles far and wee and bettyandisbel come dancing from hop-scotch and jump-rope and it's spring and the goat footed balloonMan whistles far and wee | (That's his formatting and spacing, not mine.)

Answer 168

e e Cummings, American Modernist Poet | The "goat-footed ballon man may be **Pan,** the Greek god of the wild.

Question 169

# Identify the poet, recognize the bolded: **anyone lived in a pretty how town** (1940): **anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) spring summer autumn winter he sang his didn’t he danced his did.** Women and men(both little and small) cared for anyone not at all they sowed their isn’t they reaped their same sun moon stars rain children guessed (but only a few and down they forgot as up they grew autumn winter spring summer) that noone loved him more by more [...] ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/22653/anyone-lived-in-a-pretty-how-town)

Answer 169

e e Cummings, American Modernist Poet ## Footnote (A man named *Anyone* lived in a quaint, ordinary town where bells frequently chimed. Season after season, he was open about all the things he hadn't done but celebrated all that he was able to accomplish. None of the men or women in the town cared about Anyone.)

Question 170

# Identify the poet: **age old sticks** (1958): Old age sticks up keep off signs & youth yanks them down Old age cries no tress & pass Youth laughs Sing old age scolds forbidden stop Mustn’t don’t & Youth goes right on growing old.

Answer 170

e e Cummings | This is another "circle of life" poem - even youth becomes old.

Question 171

# Country, TIme Period, Movement, Known For (2): Edwin Arlington Robinson

Answer 171

* **Country:** American, from Maine * **Time Period:** 1870 - 1935 * **Movement:** Modernist * **Known For:** One of the first modernist poets, wrote "Richard Cory" and "Miniver Cheevy." ## Footnote Fun Fact: Robinson's parents wanted a girl and didn't name him until he was six months old, when his parents went on vacation and the other vacationers insisted he needed a name. One man drew the name "Edwin" out of a hat of boy's names. The man was from Arlington, Virginia.

Question 172

# Identify the poet and recognize the character from the bolded: **Richard Cory** (1897): Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement looked at him: He was a **gentleman from sole to crown**, Clean favored, and imperially slim. And he was always quietly arrayed, And he was always human when he talked; But still he fluttered pulses when he said, "Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked. And he was rich – yes, **richer than a king** – And admirably schooled in every grace: In fine, we thought that he was everything To make us wish that we were in his place. So on we worked, and waited for the light, And went without the meat, and cursed the bread; And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, Went home and put a bullet through his head.

Answer 172

Edwin Arlington Robinson, American Modernist Poet | (If you haven't read the poem, read it. It's dark.) ## Footnote (Edwin's handsome, weathy, successful older brother married Emma, the woman Edwin loved, but his brother became an alcoholic, his businesses failed, and he died in poverty of tuberculosis. Emma is convinced the poem is about Edwin's brother.)

Question 173

# Identify the poet: **Miniver Cheevy** (1910): Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn, Grew lean while he assailed the seasons; He wept that he was ever born, And he had reasons. Miniver loved the days of old When swords were bright and steeds were prancing; The vision of a warrior bold Would set him dancing. Miniver sighed for what was not, And dreamed, and rested from his labors; He dreamed of Thebes and Camelot, And Priam’s neighbors. [.....] Miniver Cheevy, born too late, Scratched his head and kept on thinking; Miniver coughed, and called it fate, And kept on drinking. ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44978/miniver-cheevy)

Answer 173

Edwin Arlington Robinson, American Modernist Poet

Question 174

# Identify the movement: John Suckling

Answer 174

Cavalier Poet | That's all you need to know.

Question 175

# Country, TIme Period, Movement, Known For (2): Edward Taylor

Answer 175

* **Country:** American, from Massachussettts (although born in England) * **Time Period:** 1640 - 1730 * **Movement:** "American Baroque" and "Metaphysical" (neither is ever mentioned) * **Known For:** He was an **American Puritan** poet and **minister** who lived in Massachusetts. Although born in England, his thirst for religious freedom led him to the Bay Colony. His poetry is full of imagery drawn from the **countryside of New England**. His poems include “Upon a Spider Catching a Fly” and “Huswifery.” | Works: Upon a Spider Catching a Fly; Huswifery ## Footnote Fun Fact: His poetry wasn't discovered until 1930, 200 years after his death.

Question 176

# Identify the poet: This American Puritan's poems include "Upon a Spider Catching a Fly" and "Huswifery." ## Footnote Upon a Spider Catching a Fly: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46132/upon-a-spider-catching-a-fly) Huswifery: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46133/huswifery)

Answer 176

Edward Taylor

Question 177

# Country, TIme Period, Movement, Known For (2): Anne Bradstreet

Answer 177

* **Country:** British, immigrated to Massachussetts at age 18. * **Time Period:** 1610 - 1670ish * **Movement:** Puritanism (never mentioned) * **Known For:** She was the first **Puritan** figure in American literary history and is best known for her poem "**To My Dear and Loving Husband**" and her poetry collection "**The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America**." ## Footnote Works: To My Dear and Loving Husband; The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America (collection)

Question 178

# Identify the poet, know the opening line: To My Dear and Loving Husband (1678): **If ever two were one, then surely we.** If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me, ye women, if you can. I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold, Or all the riches that the East doth hold. My love is such that rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee give recompense. Thy love is such I can no way repay; The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray. Then while we live, in love let’s so persever, That when we live no more, we may live ever.

Answer 178

Anne Bradstreet, British-American Puritan Poet

Question 179

# Identify the poet: This poet's brother-in-law, John Woodbridge, went to England in 1650 and arranged, without their knowledge, to publish several of their poems in the book, ***The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America***.

Answer 179

Anne Bradstreet, British-American Puritan Poet

Question 180

# Identify the poet: An aristocrat by birth, this poet used her writing to embody the **experience of settlers in the New World** as she addressed the hardships as well as domestic happiness and religious faith of her **Puritan community**. She wrote the first volume of original verse to be published in America which includes the poem “**To My Dear and Loving Husband.**”

Answer 180

Anne Bradstreet, British-American Puritan Poet

Question 181

# Country, TIme Period, Movement, Known For (1): Seamus Heaney

Answer 181

* **Country:** Irish * **Time Period:** 1940 - 2010ish * **Movement:** Modernism * **Known For:** The poem "**Digging**." ## Footnote Works: Digging

Question 182

# Identify the poet: **Digging** (1966): Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. Under my window, a clean rasping sound When the spade sinks into gravelly ground: My father, digging. I look down Till his straining rump among the flowerbeds Bends low, comes up twenty years away Stooping in rhythm through potato drills Where he was digging. The coarse boot nestled on the lug, the shaft Against the inside knee was levered firmly. He rooted out tall tops, buried the bright edge deep To scatter new potatoes that we picked, Loving their cool hardness in our hands. [.....] ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47555/digging)

Answer 182

Seamus Heaney, Irish Modernist Poet

Question 183

# Country, TIme Period, Movement, Known For (1): Sir Philip Sidney

Answer 183

* **Country:** British * **Time Period:** 1550 - 1590ish * **Movement:** Renaissance * **Known For:** The collection of poems "**Astrophel and Stella**", one of the earliest English collections of sonnets.

Question 184

# Identify: This collection of poems by Sir Philip Sidney published in 1591 is named after a combination of the Greek words for "Star Lover" and the Latin word for "Star."

Answer 184

**Astrophel and Stella** (1591) by Sir Philip Sidney, British Renaissance Poet | (Literally, "astro-phile" and "Stella")

Question 185

# Country, TIme Period, Movement, Known For (1): Richard Lovelace

Answer 185

* **Country:** British * **Time Period:** 1620 - 1660 * **Movement:** **Cavalier Poets** * **Known For:** The poem, "To Althea, From Prison," which includes the line "stone walls do not a prison make." | Appears often in "which is not a Cavalier Poet?" questions. ## Footnote An A-Team question set erroneously attributed the prison quote to Andrew Marvell. It's Richard Lovelace. The three **Cavalier Poets:** Robert Herrick, John Suckling, Richard Lovelace.

Question 186

# Identify the poet and recognize the bolded lines: **To Althea, from Prison** (1642): When Love with unconfinèd wings Hovers within my Gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the Grates; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fettered to her eye, The Gods that wanton in the Air, Know no such Liberty. [.....] **Stone Walls do not a Prison make, Nor Iron bars a Cage**; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an Hermitage. If I have freedom in my Love, And in my soul am free, Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such Liberty. ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44657/to-althea-from-prison)

Answer 186

Richard Lovelace, British Cavalier Poet ## Footnote (He went to prison for demanding to Parliament that Charles I be restored to power after a conflict between the king and parliament.)

Question 187

# Country, TIme Period, Movement, Known For (1): Audre Lorde

Answer 187

* **Country:** American, from New York * **Time Period:** 1930-1990ish * **Movement:** Feminist, Black Arts Movement (never mentioned) * **Known For:** "**Hanging Fire**" ## Footnote Works: Hanging Fire

Question 188

# Identify the poet: **Hanging Fire** (1978): I am fourteen and my skin has betrayed me the boy I cannot live without still sucks his thumb in secret how come my knees are always so ashy what if I die before morning and momma's in the bedroom with the door closed. I have to learn how to dance in time for the next party my room is too small for me suppose I die before graduation they will sing sad melodies but finally tell the truth about me There is nothing I want to do and too much that has to be done and momma's in the bedroom with the door closed. Nobody even stops to think about my side of it I should have been on Math Team my marks were better than his why do I have to be the one wearing braces I have nothing to wear tomorrow will I live long enough to grow up and momma's in the bedroom with the door closed.

Answer 188

Audre Lorde, American Feminist Poet | (This is high school anxiety in a poem. Read it.)

Question 189

# Country, TIme Period, Movement, Known For (4): Sylvia Plath

Answer 189

* **Country:** American, from Massachussetts * **Time Period:** 1930 - 1960ish * **Movement:** Categorized as "Confessional Poetry", but never mentioned * **Known For:** * Her unhappy life and **severe depression** (she tried to kill herself three times, once successfully). * Her spiral towards depression is best reflected in her semi-autobiographical book "**The Bell Jar**." * Some of her famous poems include "**Daddy**", "**Mirror**", and "**Metaphors**" (which is about pregnancy.) * She was married to fellow poet **Ted Hughes**. ## Footnote Works: Daddy; Metaphors; Mirror; the novel "The Bell Jar"

Question 190

This poet was born in Boston and lived a **short and mostly unhappy life**. She wrote poetry and received scholastic and literary awards as a young woman. Her first book of verse, **The Colossus and Other Poems**, was the only book published during her lifetime. Four other books of poetry and one novel, **The Bell Jar**, were published posthumously.

Answer 190

Sylvia Plath

Question 191

This is the semi-autobiographical work by Sylvia Plath that describes her downward mental spiral.

Answer 191

**The Bell Jar** by Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Question 192

# Identify the poet: This poet was **married to Ted Hughes**, poet laureate of England and the author of "The Hawk in the Rain."

Answer 192

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Question 193

# Identify the poet: **Daddy** (1965): You do not do, you do not do Any more, black shoe In which I have lived like a foot For thirty years, poor and white, Barely daring to breathe or Achoo. **Daddy, I have had to kill you. ** You died before I had time—— Marble-heavy, a bag full of God, Ghastly statue with one gray toe Big as a Frisco seal And a head in the freakish Atlantic Where it pours bean green over blue In the waters off beautiful Nauset. I used to pray to recover you. Ach, du. [.....] ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48999/daddy-56d22aafa45b2)

Answer 193

Sylvia Plath, American Poet ## Footnote Plath's father died when she was eight. In this poem, written four months before her death and one month after her separation from Ted Hughes, she calls her dad a "Nazi", a "giant statue", a "confining shoe", and a "vampire."

Question 194

# Identify the poet and **subject of the poem**: **Metaphors** (1959): I'm a riddle in nine syllables, An elephant, a ponderous house, A melon strolling on two tendrils. O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers! This loaf's big with its yeasty rising. Money's new-minted in this fat purse. I'm a means, a stage, a cow in calf. I've eaten a bag of green apples, Boarded the train there's no getting off.

Answer 194

Sylvia Plath, American Poet The poem is about **pregnancy.**

Question 195

# Identify the poet: **Mirror** (1961): I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see I swallow immediately Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful‚ The eye of a little god, four-cornered. Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall. It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long I think it is part of my heart. But it flickers. Faces and darkness separate us over and over. Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me, Searching my reaches for what she really is. Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon. I see her back, and reflect it faithfully. She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands. I am important to her. She comes and goes. Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness. In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.

Answer 195

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Question 196

Ted Hughes

Answer 196

* **Country:** British * **Time Period:** 1930 - 2000ish * **Movement:** Modernism * **Known For:** The poems "**The Hawk in the Rain**", "**The Horses**", "**Hawk Roosting**", and the collection of poems about his relationship with Sylvia Plath, "**Birthday Letters**." ## Footnote Works: Hawk in the Rain, Hawk Roosting, The Horses, and the collection Birthday Letters.

Question 197

# Identify the poet: This poet was born in West Yorkshire and spent most of his youth hunting and fishing. His love of the outdoors was reflected in many of his poems, like “**The Horses** (1957)” and “**Hawk Roosting** (1960).” Both his wife and his mistress committed suicide. His book, **Birthday Letters** (published 1998), is a collection of poems about his relationship with **Sylvia Plath**.

Answer 197

Ted Hughes, British Modernist Poet

Question 198

# Identify the poet: This poet was the **poet laureate of England**. He was the author of **The Hawk in the Rain** and was **married to Sylvia Plath**.

Answer 198

Ted Hughes, British Modernist Poet

Question 199

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Answer 199

* **Country:** American, from Maine * **Time Period:** 1890 - 1950ish * **Movement:** Modernism * **Known For:** Being an American poet during **WW1** and the **Roaring 20s.** | (None of her works are mentioned.)

Question 200

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Answer 200

* **Country:** American, from Massachussetts * **Time Period:** 1800 - 1880 * **Movement:** Transcendentalism * **Known For:** * Closely associated with being a **leader of the Transcendentalist movement** and the essay **Nature**, where he argues that humans and nature should peacefully coexist. * Known for the Civil War poem **Concorde Hymn**" in which the phrase "**the shot heard 'round the world**" was coined. * His essay **Self-Reliance** and his speech to Harvard students "**The American Scholar**" is a popular call for independent thought. "Men are what their mothers made them." ## Footnote Always associated with Emerson: American, transcendentalism, *Self-Reliance*, Concorde Hymn and the "shot heard round the world", *Nature*.

Question 201

# Identify the poet: After attending Harvard, this poet became a **Unitarian minister**. After his wife died, he left the ministry and made a living as a lecturer. In an address to students at his alma mater called "**The American Scholar**", he demanded that American scholars free themselves from the shackles of the past. He later developed the movement known as **Transcendentalism**.

Answer 201

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Transcendentalist Poet

Question 202

This poet's essay "**Self-Reliance**" urged people against conforming with expectations and advocated for free thought, while their essay "**Nature**" was a founding document of the Transcendentalist movement.

Answer 202

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Transcendentalist Poet

Question 203

# Identity the poet: This American lecturer's 1837 work, “**The American Scholar**,” describes the resources and duties of the new, liberated intellectual.

Answer 203

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Transcendentalist Poet

Question 204

# Identify the poet, and know the very famous bolded line: Concord Hymn (1837): By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood **And fired the shot heard round the world.** The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set today a votive stone; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.

Answer 204

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Transcendentalist Poet

Question 205

Adrienne Rich

Answer 205

* **Country:** American, from Maryland * **Time Period:** 1930 - 2010ish * **Movement:** Feminist Movement * **Known For:** Poet during **Vietnam war** and the poem "**Diving into the Wreck.** (1973)"

Question 206

Phillis Wheatley

Answer 206

* **Country:** American, from Massachussetts (but kidnapped from West Africa.) * **Time Period:** 1753-1784 * **Movement:** American Revolution-era Poetry (never mentioned) * **Known For:** Her 1773 publication of ***Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral*** made her the **first** published African-American poet. She expressed her love for George Washington in "**To His Excellency General Washington**." ## Footnote (Phillis was kidnapped and sold into slavery to the Wheatley family of Boston. She learned to write and published her collection of poems on a trip to London with the Wheatley's son. She was freed shortly after, but died at 31 in poverty and obscurity.)

Question 207

# Identify the poet: She was the very first black American to publish poetry. She personified America as the goddess Columbia. George Washington was her hero, and he was a fan of hers.

Answer 207

Phillis Wheatley

Question 208

Brian Taylor

Answer 208

* **Country:** British * **Time Period:** * **Movement:** * **Known For:** "Mirrors of our Time" | So mysterious. ## Footnote (There's literally no information on this person. He's a distractor choice.)

Question 209

# Country, Time Period, Movement, Known For (3): Robert Burns

Answer 209

* **Country:** Scottish * **Time Period:** 1760 - 1800ish * **Movement:** Romanticism * **Known For:** Being a **pioneer of the Romantic period**, his poem "**To a Mouse**" whose famous line "*the best laid schemes o' mouse and men*" inspired the title of Hemingway's "Of Mice and Men," his poem "**A Red, Red Rose**" and "**Auld Lang Syne**" (which was turned into the very famous New Year's song.) Robert Burns compared me to his love. (a rose) "to a mouse" - where title "of mouse and men" came from ## Footnote Works: To a Mouse, A Red, Red Rose, Auld Lang Syne

Question 210

# Identify the poet and the **book inspired** by the bolded line: **To a Mouse** (1785): Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim’rous beastie, O, what a panic’s in thy breastie! Thou need na start awa sae hasty, Wi’ bickerin brattle! I wad be laith to rin an’ chase thee Wi’ murd’ring pattle! I’m truly sorry Man’s dominion Has broken Nature’s social union, An’ justifies that ill opinion, Which makes thee startle, At me, thy poor, earth-born companion, An’ fellow-mortal! [.....] But Mousie, thou art no thy-lane, In proving foresight may be vain: **The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men** Gang aft agley, An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, For promis’d joy! Still, thou art blest, compar’d wi’ me! The present only toucheth thee: But Och! I backward cast my e’e, On prospects drear! An’ forward tho’ I canna see, I guess an’ fear! ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43816/to-a-mouse-56d222ab36e33)

Answer 210

Robert Burns, Scottish Romantic Poet The line inspired Ernest Hemingway's "**Of Mouse and Men**."

Question 211

# Identify the poet: A Red, Red Rose (1794): **O my Luve is like a red, red rose** That’s newly sprung in June; O my Luve is like the melody That’s sweetly played in tune. So fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I; And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a’ the seas gang dry. Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi’ the sun; I will love thee still, my dear, While the sands o’ life shall run. And fare thee weel, my only luve! And fare thee weel awhile! And I will come again, my luve, Though it were ten thousand mile.

Answer 211

Robert Burns, Scottish Romanticist Poet

Question 212

Auld Lang Syne (1788): **Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And auld lang syne!** For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne. We’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet, For auld lang syne. And surely ye'll be your pint stowp! And surely I’ll be mine! And we’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet, For auld lang syne. We twa hae run about the braes, And pou’d the gowans fine; But we’ve wander’d mony a weary fit, Sin’ auld lang syne. ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://poets.org/poem/auld-lang-syne)

Answer 212

Robert Burns, Scottish Romanticist Poet | Auld Lang Syne means "long times past."

Question 213

This poet is considered a pioneer of the **Romantic period**. Besides writing poems about **lice and mice**, he also wrote about love and a **red, red rose**. His **Scottish** dialect is detected in my poem **Auld Lang Syne** which has become a traditional song sung on New Year’s Eve.

Answer 213

Robert Burns, Scottish Romanticist Poet

Question 214

Wilfred Owen

Answer 214

* **Country:** British * **Time Period:** 1890 - 1920ish * **Movement:** War Poet (never mentioned) * **Known For:** Known as the "**Poet in the Trenches**" he composed all of his poetry (notably about **World War I**) in nearly one year in 1917. His best known work is the poem “**Dulce et Decorum Est**" (about WWI.) ## Footnote (Owen was suspected to be gay and had a relationship with another war poet, but sadly was killed in combat at age 25 in France a week before the war ended.)

Question 215

**Dulce et Decorum Est** (1920, posthumous): Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs, And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots, But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots Of gas-shells dropping softly behind. Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time, But someone still was yelling out and stumbling And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.— Dim through the misty panes and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. In all my dreams before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. [.....] ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/dulce-et-decorum-est)

Answer 215

Wilfred Owens, British Poet in the Trenches ## Footnote (The title alludes to "it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country.)

Question 216

Rupert Brooke

Answer 216

* **Country:** British * **Time Period:** 1890 - 1915ish * **Movement:** War Poet * **Known For:** "The Soldier"

Question 217

# Identify the poet: The Soldier (1915): **If I should die, think only this of me: That there’s some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England.** There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam; A body of England’s, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. And think, this heart, all evil shed away, A pulse in the eternal mind, no less Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given; Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

Answer 217

Rupert Brooke, War Poet

Question 218

# Country, Time Period, Movement, Known For (1): Countee Cullen

Answer 218

* **Country:** American, from New York * **Time Period:** 1900 - 1950ish * **Movement:** Harlem Renaissance * **Known For:** "Yet I Do Marvel"

Question 219

# Identify the poet, recognize the bolded lines: Yet I Do Marvel (1925): I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind, And did He stoop to quibble could tell why The little buried mole continues blind, Why flesh that mirrors Him must some day die, Make plain the reason tortured Tantalus Is baited by the fickle fruit, declare If merely brute caprice dooms Sisyphus To struggle up a never-ending stair. Inscrutable His ways are, and immune To catechism by a mind too strewn With petty cares to slightly understand What awful brain compels His awful hand. **Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: To make a poet black, and bid him sing!**

Answer 219

Countee Cullen, Harlem Renaissance Poet

Question 220

Andrew Marvell

Answer 220

* **Country:** British * **Time Period:** 1620 - 1680ish * **Movement:** Metaphysical Poet * **Known For:** "To His Coy Mistress" "had we but world enough and time"

Question 221

# Identify the poet, recognize the bolded: **To His Coy Mistress** (1681, posthumous): **Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime.** We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass our long love’s day. Thou by the Indian Ganges’ side Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the flood, And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews. My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires and more slow; An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze; Two hundred to adore each breast, But thirty thousand to the rest; An age at least to every part, And the last age should show your heart. For, lady, you deserve this state, Nor would I love at lower rate. ## Footnote Read the full poem: [here](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44688/to-his-coy-mistress)

Answer 221

Andrew Marvell, British Metaphysical Poet ## Footnote (In this poem, an anonymous lover attempts to **convince his reluctant mistress to have sex with him**. The speaker addresses the object of his affection directly, and his monologue takes the form of an argument.)

Question 222

Emily, Charlotte, and Anne Bronte

Answer 222

* **Country:** British * **Time Period:** 1800s * **Movement:** Romanticism * **Known For:** For poetry, know that the Bronte sisters used the names **Ellis, Currer, and Acton** Bell when they published their poems. ## Footnote Emily, Charlotte, Ann = Ellis, Currer, Acton

Question 223

Theodore Roethke

Answer 223

* **Country:** American, from Michigan * **Time Period:** 1910 - 1960ish * **Movement:** Confessional Poetry (never asked about) * **Known For:** The Michigan-born poet of German descent—author of “Open House,” “Elegy for Jane,” and “Night Journey”—who is referred to as “the greenhouse poet.”

Question 224

William Wordsworth

Answer 224

* **Country:** British * **Time Period:** 1770 - 1850 * **Movement:** Romanticism * **Known For:** "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey"

Question 225

John Greenleaf Whittier

Answer 225

* **Country:** American, from Massachussetts * **Time Period:** 1810 - 1890ish * **Movement:** Fireside Poet * **Known For:** "Snowbound: A Winter Idyl", a poem which is celebrated for its depiction of New England rural life.

Question 226

William Butler Yeats

Answer 226

* **Country:** Irish * **Time Period:** 1865 - 1940ish * **Movement:** Modernist * **Known For:** W.B. Yeats wrote that no stain can come upon my visage (the moon) "Sailing to Byzantium" “And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, /Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?” - "The Second Coming" Yeats poem in which he invokes a powerful image of encroaching anarchy in the following lines: The falcon cannot hear the falconer;/Things fall apart …

Question 227

Allen Ginsberg

Answer 227

* **Country:** American, from New Jersey * **Time Period:** 1930 - 2000ish * **Movement:** Beat Generation * **Known For:** "Marriage", "Howl", "A Supermarket in California." "Marriage" American cult figure whose most famous work, Howl, concerned the Beat culture of the 1950s Associated with the Beat culture The writing styles of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac reflected the influence of jazz.

Question 228

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Answer 228

* **Country:** American, from New York * **Time Period:** 1920 - 2020ish * **Movement:** Beat Generation * **Known For:** Associated with the Beat movement, "Constantly Risking Absurdity"

Question 229

Alexander Pope

Answer 229

* **Country:** British * **Time Period:** 1690 - 1740ish * **Movement:** Neoclassical * **Known For:** "The Rape of the Lock" "Rape of the Lock" Not fierce Othello in so loud a Strain Roar’d for the Handkerchief that caus’d his pain 1688-1744 literary work from which the following heroic couplet is taken: "The meeting Points the sacred Hair dissever/ From the fair Head, for ever, and for ever!" - Rape of the Lock Pope’s mock epic in which a baron uses sharp scissors to cut Belinda’s curl. "A little learning is a dangerous thing."

Question 230

Caedmon

Answer 230

* **Country:** British * **Time Period:** 657 - 684 * **Movement:** Anglo-Saxon * **Known For:** The earliest English poet for whom a name is known.

Question 231

Richard Wilbur

Answer 231

* **Country:** American, from New York * **Time Period:** 1920 - 2020ish * **Movement:** Formalism (never mentioned) * **Known For:** "The Writer"

Question 232

John Gower

Answer 232

* **Country:** British * **Time Period:** 1330 - 1410ish * **Movement:** Middle English Literature * **Known For:** Contemporary of Geoffrey Chaucer

Question 233

John Dryden

Answer 233

* **Country:** British * **Time Period:** 1630 - 1700ish * **Movement:** Restoration * **Known For:** Contemporary of Jonathan Swift

Question 234

Ezra Pound

Answer 234

* **Country:** American, from Idaho * **Time Period:** 1890 - 1970ish * **Movement:** Moderism * **Known For:** Modern Age

Question 235

Lewis Carroll

Answer 235

* **Country:** British * **Time Period:** 1830 - 1900ish * **Movement:** Victorian Literature * **Known For:** "Jabberwocky" in "Through the Looking Glass" | His real name is "Charles Lutwidge Dodgeson."

Question 236

Terms

Answer 236

meter, rythm, Assonance, Ode, Iambic (iamb) vs. Trochaic (trochee), Sonnet, Enjambment, pastoral, epic, anapest, dactyl, blank (verse), rhymed verse, terza rima, heroic couplet, conceit, beat, symphonic poem, apostrophe, haiku, chanson de geste, metrical foot ## Footnote Beginner's Guide to Analyzing Poetry: [Here](https://www.matrix.edu.au/beginners-guide-poetry/how-analyse-metre/#:~:text=A%20foot%20refers%20to%20the,in%20a%20word%20or%20words.&text=In%20poetry%2C%20a%20foot%20can,X'%20to%20represent%20unstressed%20syllables.)

Question 237

# Poetry terminology - define: Meter

Answer 237

The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. Example: In iambic pentameter, there are five iambs (unstressed-stressed) per line. ## Footnote Beginner's Guide to Analyzing Poetry: [Here](https://www.matrix.edu.au/beginners-guide-poetry/how-analyse-metre/#:~:text=A%20foot%20refers%20to%20the,in%20a%20word%20or%20words.&text=In%20poetry%2C%20a%20foot%20can,X'%20to%20represent%20unstressed%20syllables.)

Question 238

# Poetry terminology - define: Rhythm

Answer 238

The flow of sound created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. ## Footnote Beginner's Guide to Analyzing Poetry: [Here](https://www.matrix.edu.au/beginners-guide-poetry/how-analyse-metre/#:~:text=A%20foot%20refers%20to%20the,in%20a%20word%20or%20words.&text=In%20poetry%2C%20a%20foot%20can,X'%20to%20represent%20unstressed%20syllables.)

Question 239

# Poetry terminology - define: Assonance

Answer 239

The repetition of vowel sounds within nearby words. Example: "The early bird catches the worm." ## Footnote Beginner's Guide to Analyzing Poetry: [Here](https://www.matrix.edu.au/beginners-guide-poetry/how-analyse-metre/#:~:text=A%20foot%20refers%20to%20the,in%20a%20word%20or%20words.&text=In%20poetry%2C%20a%20foot%20can,X'%20to%20represent%20unstressed%20syllables.)

Question 240

# Poetry terminology - define: Ode

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A type of lyrical stanza. It is an elaborately structured poem praising or glorifying an event or individual, describing nature intellectually as well as emotionally. ## Footnote Beginner's Guide to Analyzing Poetry: [Here](https://www.matrix.edu.au/beginners-guide-poetry/how-analyse-metre/#:~:text=A%20foot%20refers%20to%20the,in%20a%20word%20or%20words.&text=In%20poetry%2C%20a%20foot%20can,X'%20to%20represent%20unstressed%20syllables.)

Question 241

# Poetry terminology - define: Iamb (or "iambic")

Answer 241

A metrical foot in poetry consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. Example: "aLIVE." | The reverse of a trochee. ## Footnote Beginner's Guide to Analyzing Poetry: [Here](https://www.matrix.edu.au/beginners-guide-poetry/how-analyse-metre/#:~:text=A%20foot%20refers%20to%20the,in%20a%20word%20or%20words.&text=In%20poetry%2C%20a%20foot%20can,X'%20to%20represent%20unstressed%20syllables.)

Question 242

# Poetry terminology - define: Trochee (or Trochaic)

Answer 242

A metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. Example: "HAPpy." The reverse of an iamb. ## Footnote Beginner's Guide to Analyzing Poetry: [Here](https://www.matrix.edu.au/beginners-guide-poetry/how-analyse-metre/#:~:text=A%20foot%20refers%20to%20the,in%20a%20word%20or%20words.&text=In%20poetry%2C%20a%20foot%20can,X'%20to%20represent%20unstressed%20syllables.)

Question 243

# Poetry terminology - define: Sonnet

Answer 243

A poem of 14 lines, usually written in iambic pentameter. It often follows specific rhyme schemes (e.g., Shakespearean or Petrarchan). ## Footnote Beginner's Guide to Analyzing Poetry: [Here](https://www.matrix.edu.au/beginners-guide-poetry/how-analyse-metre/#:~:text=A%20foot%20refers%20to%20the,in%20a%20word%20or%20words.&text=In%20poetry%2C%20a%20foot%20can,X'%20to%20represent%20unstressed%20syllables.)

Question 244

# Poetry terminology - define: Enjambment

Answer 244

The continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line of poetry to the next **without a pause or break**. Enjambment occurs in poetry when a sentence or phrase runs over from one line to the next without a terminal punctuation mark. It can create a sense of flow, urgency, or continuity and often encourages the reader to move quickly to the next line. Here's a simple example from John Milton's "Paradise Lost": "He with his horrid crew Lay vanquished, rolling in the fiery gulf" In these lines, the sentence that begins with "He with his horrid crew" does not end on the same line but carries over to the next line without a pause, creating enjambment. The lack of punctuation at the end of the first line propels the reader forward, maintaining the flow and momentum of the verse. ## Footnote Beginner's Guide to Analyzing Poetry: [Here](https://www.matrix.edu.au/beginners-guide-poetry/how-analyse-metre/#:~:text=A%20foot%20refers%20to%20the,in%20a%20word%20or%20words.&text=In%20poetry%2C%20a%20foot%20can,X'%20to%20represent%20unstressed%20syllables.)

Question 245

# Poetry terminology - define: Pastoral

Answer 245

A poem that deals with rural life in an idealized manner. ## Footnote Beginner's Guide to Analyzing Poetry: [Here](https://www.matrix.edu.au/beginners-guide-poetry/how-analyse-metre/#:~:text=A%20foot%20refers%20to%20the,in%20a%20word%20or%20words.&text=In%20poetry%2C%20a%20foot%20can,X'%20to%20represent%20unstressed%20syllables.)

Question 246

# Poetry terminology - define: Epic

Answer 246

A long narrative poem, often written about a hero or heroines who embodies the values of a particular culture. ## Footnote Beginner's Guide to Analyzing Poetry: [Here](https://www.matrix.edu.au/beginners-guide-poetry/how-analyse-metre/#:~:text=A%20foot%20refers%20to%20the,in%20a%20word%20or%20words.&text=In%20poetry%2C%20a%20foot%20can,X'%20to%20represent%20unstressed%20syllables.)

Question 247

# Poetry terminology - define: Anapest

Answer 247

A metrical foot consisting of two short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed syllable. Example: "compreHEND." ## Footnote Beginner's Guide to Analyzing Poetry: [Here](https://www.matrix.edu.au/beginners-guide-poetry/how-analyse-metre/#:~:text=A%20foot%20refers%20to%20the,in%20a%20word%20or%20words.&text=In%20poetry%2C%20a%20foot%20can,X'%20to%20represent%20unstressed%20syllables.)

Question 248

# Poetry terminology - define: Dactyl

Answer 248

A metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables. Example: "BASketball." ## Footnote Beginner's Guide to Analyzing Poetry: [Here](https://www.matrix.edu.au/beginners-guide-poetry/how-analyse-metre/#:~:text=A%20foot%20refers%20to%20the,in%20a%20word%20or%20words.&text=In%20poetry%2C%20a%20foot%20can,X'%20to%20represent%20unstressed%20syllables.)

Question 249

# Poetry terminology - define: Blank Verse

Answer 249

Unrhymed iambic pentameter. Contrasts with "rhymed verse." ## Footnote Beginner's Guide to Analyzing Poetry: [Here](https://www.matrix.edu.au/beginners-guide-poetry/how-analyse-metre/#:~:text=A%20foot%20refers%20to%20the,in%20a%20word%20or%20words.&text=In%20poetry%2C%20a%20foot%20can,X'%20to%20represent%20unstressed%20syllables.)

Question 250

# Poetry terminology - define: Iambic Pentameter

Answer 250

Iambic pentameter is a specific type of meter used in poetry and drama, characterized by lines that consist of five pairs (or feet) of syllables. In each pair, the first syllable is unstressed (spoken softly), and the second syllable is stressed (spoken more forcefully). The term "pentameter" indicates that there are five of these pairs in a line, making a total of ten syllables. Here's the structure of a line in iambic pentameter, with the stressed syllables marked in caps: da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM For example, consider this famous line from Shakespeare's "Sonnet 18": "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" If you read it aloud, you can hear the alternating unstressed and stressed pattern, fitting the iambic pentameter structure: Shall I / comPARE / thee TO / a SUM / mer's DAY? Iambic pentameter is widely used in English poetry and is particularly associated with the works of William Shakespeare and other Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights and poets. It's considered to have a rhythm that is close to natural patterns of English speech, which is one reason for its popularity and enduring appeal. ## Footnote Beginner's Guide to Analyzing Poetry: [Here](https://www.matrix.edu.au/beginners-guide-poetry/how-analyse-metre/#:~:text=A%20foot%20refers%20to%20the,in%20a%20word%20or%20words.&text=In%20poetry%2C%20a%20foot%20can,X'%20to%20represent%20unstressed%20syllables.)

Question 251

# Poetry terminology - define: Rhymed Verse

Answer 251

Poetry that has a regular rhyme scheme. Contrasts with "blank verse." ## Footnote Beginner's Guide to Analyzing Poetry: [Here](https://www.matrix.edu.au/beginners-guide-poetry/how-analyse-metre/#:~:text=A%20foot%20refers%20to%20the,in%20a%20word%20or%20words.&text=In%20poetry%2C%20a%20foot%20can,X'%20to%20represent%20unstressed%20syllables.)

Question 252

# Poetry terminology - define: Terza Rima

Answer 252

A three-line stanza rhyming scheme (ABA, BCB, CDC, etc.) ## Footnote Beginner's Guide to Analyzing Poetry: [Here](https://www.matrix.edu.au/beginners-guide-poetry/how-analyse-metre/#:~:text=A%20foot%20refers%20to%20the,in%20a%20word%20or%20words.&text=In%20poetry%2C%20a%20foot%20can,X'%20to%20represent%20unstressed%20syllables.)

Question 253

# Poetry terminology - define: Heroic Couplet

Answer 253

A heroic couplet consists of **two consecutive lines of iambic pentameter that rhyme with each other**. This form often concludes a scene, stanza, or poem and is typically used to provide emphasis or deliver a strong point with a sense of closure. An example of a heroic couplet can be found in Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Criticism": "True wit is nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed." In this example, "dressed" rhymes with "expressed," and both lines are in iambic pentameter, demonstrating the characteristic features of a heroic couplet. ## Footnote Beginner's Guide to Analyzing Poetry: [Here](https://www.matrix.edu.au/beginners-guide-poetry/how-analyse-metre/#:~:text=A%20foot%20refers%20to%20the,in%20a%20word%20or%20words.&text=In%20poetry%2C%20a%20foot%20can,X'%20to%20represent%20unstressed%20syllables.)

Question 254

# Poetry terminology - define: Conceit

Answer 254

An extended metaphor that draws **a striking comparison between two seemingly unrelated things**. This literary device is often elaborate and complex, spanning several lines or even the entire poem, and is used to create a more intense or insightful comparison. | (See: John Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning) ## Footnote Beginner's Guide to Analyzing Poetry: [Here](https://www.matrix.edu.au/beginners-guide-poetry/how-analyse-metre/#:~:text=A%20foot%20refers%20to%20the,in%20a%20word%20or%20words.&text=In%20poetry%2C%20a%20foot%20can,X'%20to%20represent%20unstressed%20syllables.)

Question 255

# Poetry terminology - define: Beat

Answer 255

The pronounced rhythm in poetry or music. ## Footnote Beginner's Guide to Analyzing Poetry: [Here](https://www.matrix.edu.au/beginners-guide-poetry/how-analyse-metre/#:~:text=A%20foot%20refers%20to%20the,in%20a%20word%20or%20words.&text=In%20poetry%2C%20a%20foot%20can,X'%20to%20represent%20unstressed%20syllables.)

Question 256

# Poetry terminology - define: Symphonic Poem

Answer 256

A piece of **orchestral music** that illustrates or evokes the content of a poem, story, novel, painting, landscape, or other non-musical source. ## Footnote Beginner's Guide to Analyzing Poetry: [Here](https://www.matrix.edu.au/beginners-guide-poetry/how-analyse-metre/#:~:text=A%20foot%20refers%20to%20the,in%20a%20word%20or%20words.&text=In%20poetry%2C%20a%20foot%20can,X'%20to%20represent%20unstressed%20syllables.)

Question 257

# Poetry terminology - define: Apostrophe

Answer 257

A figure of speech in which the poet addresses an absent person, an abstract idea, or a thing. ## Footnote Beginner's Guide to Analyzing Poetry: [Here](https://www.matrix.edu.au/beginners-guide-poetry/how-analyse-metre/#:~:text=A%20foot%20refers%20to%20the,in%20a%20word%20or%20words.&text=In%20poetry%2C%20a%20foot%20can,X'%20to%20represent%20unstressed%20syllables.)

Question 258

# Poetry terminology - define: Haiku

Answer 258

A Japanese form of poetry consisting of three lines with a 5-7-5 syllable pattern. ## Footnote Beginner's Guide to Analyzing Poetry: [Here](https://www.matrix.edu.au/beginners-guide-poetry/how-analyse-metre/#:~:text=A%20foot%20refers%20to%20the,in%20a%20word%20or%20words.&text=In%20poetry%2C%20a%20foot%20can,X'%20to%20represent%20unstressed%20syllables.)

Question 259

# Poetry terminology - define: Chanson de Geste

Answer 259

A medieval narrative, a type of epic poem that celebrates heroic deeds. ## Footnote Beginner's Guide to Analyzing Poetry: [Here](https://www.matrix.edu.au/beginners-guide-poetry/how-analyse-metre/#:~:text=A%20foot%20refers%20to%20the,in%20a%20word%20or%20words.&text=In%20poetry%2C%20a%20foot%20can,X'%20to%20represent%20unstressed%20syllables.)

Question 260

# Poetry terminology - define: Metrical Foot

Answer 260

A unit of measurement in poetry, which is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables. ## Footnote Beginner's Guide to Analyzing Poetry: [Here](https://www.matrix.edu.au/beginners-guide-poetry/how-analyse-metre/#:~:text=A%20foot%20refers%20to%20the,in%20a%20word%20or%20words.&text=In%20poetry%2C%20a%20foot%20can,X'%20to%20represent%20unstressed%20syllables.)