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Emily Dickinson. I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you- nobody- too? Then there's two of us?
| According to an Emily Dickinson poem, what is 'the thing with feathers'? (To all of you that have taken this quiz before, I'm sorry and the answer is NOT Emily Dickinson!) | Anything Poetry
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Edna ST Vincent Millay. She is known for for her traditional poetic and her bohemian living. The publication in 1912 of the poem 'Renascence' won her instant acclaim. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Alos, early in her career she wrote fiction under the name Nancy Boyd.
| Which author wrote a classic poem that expressed 'sorrow for the lost Lenore'? | People in Poetry
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Edgar Allan Poe. 'Nameless here for evermore'. Poe, of course, in 'The Raven'. He also wrote about women named Annabel Lee, Annie, Helen, etc.
Richard Lovelace. 'Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage'.
John Keats. 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci'.
| Which author wrote about the plight of 'Evangeline and the Acadians'? | People in Poetry
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Also 'Hiawatha', 'Paul Revere, etc.
Edwin Arlington Robinson. Also 'Richard Cory'
| Which author wrote a poem which contained the reprise: 'I have been faithful to thee, Cynara,in my fashion'? | People in Poetry
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Ernest Dowson. The long Latin title is difficult, but the poem refers to 'days of wine and roses' and things 'gone with the wind'.
| Which author wrote 'Andrea Del Sarto', about the famous Italian painter? | People in Poetry
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Robert Browning. One of his better-known works
Robert Herrick. One or two are commonly noted, but there are several 'Julia' poems.
| Which author described Life as a woman in 'Madame Life's A piece in Bloom'? | People in Poetry
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William Ernest Henley. 'Madame Life's a piece in bloom, Death goes dogging everywhere, she's the tenant of the room, he's the ruffian on the stair'. Great imagery.
| Which author wrote about the death of 'Bess, the landlord's daughter'? | People in Poetry
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Alfred Noyes. The poem is 'The Highwayman'. Interesting.
| Who wrote a beautiful poem entitled 'Ye Goatherd Gods,' composed in the sestina form? | Pure Poetry
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Sir Philip Sidney. Actually a double sestina, composed in 1593. A stunning poem, do read it! It has left most poets since too awe-struck to attempt a sestina. A sestina is a v. complex form, where the last words of the first six lines (sestet) are repeated as the last words of all the subsequent stanzas, and all appear in the concluding three line stanza -- always in a different predetermined order. phew!
| 'I let her go. I let her go. Diminished and flat, as after radical surgery.' Sylvia Plath wrote these lines. Which of her poems do they appear in? | Pure Poetry
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Elm. Plath is referring to the moon.
Louis Macneice. A wonderful poem from this native of Carrickfergus.
| Which Australian poet published in 1998 a book of new poetry titled 'Whirling'? | Pure Poetry
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Chris Wallace-Crabbe. All the others are Australian poets,too. Recommended reading all.
Stevie Smith. Wonderful poem.
5. 'Housboundes at chirche dore she hadde five'. The wife's discussion of the woes of marriage is tremendous.
| Percy Shelley and Sylvia Plath have a significant number in common. What is it? | Pure Poetry Too
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30. Both poets died at the age of thirty. (Shelley was only one month short of his thirtieth birthday at his death)
Radcliffe. All exclusive American colleges, attended by many a celebrated woman poet.
John Berryman. What a poet! Listen to him reading and discussing some of his 'Dream Songs' poems if you can.
ottava rima. The complete change of rhyme for the last two of the eight lines of each stanza is perfect for the delivery of his comic twist or punch.
| Who is the successor to Ted Hughes as Poet Laureate of England? | Pure Poetry Too
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Andrew Motion. Oddly enough, it seems Seamus Heaney WAS being considered. He would no doubt have relished writing odes to the English monarchy!
T. S. Eliot. T. S. Eliot went to Harvard, Oxford, and the Sorbonne.
| The poem, by E. E. Cummings, 'O Sweet Spontaneous Earth' began with which first line? | Poetry and Writers
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O sweet spontaneous. One of the incorrect answers is my feeble attempt at Latin. E.E. was born in Cambridge, Massachusettes. He was once called 'the bad boy of American poetry'.
Madrid. George taught philosophy at Harvard. One of his students was T. S. Eliot.
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