Poets and Poetry 1
A quiz about poetry with questions to suit all the family. To view the answers just move your mouse over the answer boxes, but no cheating!!
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Who wrote the poem that starts, "Do not go gentle into that good night"?Dylan Thomas.
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According to Coleridge, where was Kubla Khan's home?Xanadu.
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Which poet wrote "Iremember, I remember the house where I was born"?Thomas Hood.
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How many lines are there in a limerick?Five.
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Who wrote "The Charge of the Light Brigade"?Alfred Lord Tennyson.
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In Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" which word is repeated by the bird?Nevermore.
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What was the sequel to Paradise Lost?Paradise Regained.
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Who wrote the poem "Jabberwocky"?Lewis Carroll.
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Who was often referred to as The Ayrshire Poet?Robet Burns.
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Who wrote The Rape of the Loch?Alexander Pope.
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Which poet of the ancient world lived on the isle of Lesbos?Sappho.
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Which Irish poet won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923?W B Yeats.
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Meaning measure in Greek, what word refers to the rhythm of a poem?Metre.
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In which nMidlands city was Phillip Larkin born?Coventry.
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Which poet was said to be "Mad, Bad and Danderous to Know"?Byron.
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How were poets Wordsworth, Southey and Coleridge collectively referred?The Lake Poets.
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According to TS Eliot, which month is the cruelest?April.
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Which fellow poet did Sylvia Plath marry in 1956?Ted Hughes.
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In which city was poet Robert Frost born?San Francisco.
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Which poet asked "How do I love you, let me count the ways"?Elizabeth Barrett Browning