Poets and Poetry 2
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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In which country did the form of poetry called Haiku originate?Japan.
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Where was Wordsworth's home from 1799 to 1808?(Dove Cottage) Grasmere.
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Which poet wrote "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"?Robert Browning.
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Which poet wrote the line "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all?Tennyson.
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Who wrote "The Owl and the Pussycat"?Edward Lear.
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What nationality was the poet Dylan Thomas?Welsh.
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Who wrote the poem "Coming Through the Rye"?Robert Burns.
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In which country was Rudyard Kipling born?India.
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Who wrote "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats"?TS Eliot.
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Which poem has the first line "If I should die, think only this of me"?The Soldier -Rupert Brook.
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How did Sylvia Plath die?Committed suicide.
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Which 1909 poem by Kipling was written as advice to his son?"If".
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Who was Shelley's poem "Adonias" a tribute to?John Keats.
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Which US poet self-published "Leaves of Green" in 1855?Walt Whitman.
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Who was poet Percy Bysshe Shelley's wife?Mary Shelley.
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What did poet John Betjeman suggest fall on Slough?Friendly bombs.
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Which season did Browning describe in "Home Thoughts from abroad"?Spring.
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Who wrote the line "She walks in beauty, like the night"?Lord Byron.
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Which flowers did Wiliam Wordsworth famously write about?Daffodils.
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How many lines are there in a sonnet?Fourteen.