Edgar Allan's Poetry

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. Let's start out easy: How does this line end: "Quoth the Raven..."? Answer: (One Word)

2. "The Raven" has 18 stanzas. How many of them do NOT end with this famous word? 6 9 7 8

3. From which poem is this quote: "How SHALL the ritual, then, be read? - the requiem how be sung - By you - by yours, the evil eye, - by yours, the slanderous tongue - That did to death the innocence that died and died so young?"? Answer: (One Word... think of the lady from "The Raven")

4. Inspired by a line from the Koran, Poe wrote a poem about an angel "whose heart-strings are a lute". Which angel? Azrael Nathaniel Uriel Israfel

5. Another very famous poem is this one. Can you finish the opening lines: "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..."? Answer: (Two Words, A. L.)

6. "A Valentine" (1850): How can you find the lady's name in the poem? Read the first letter in each line Read the last letter in the first line, the second-to-last in the second, and so on Read the last letter in each line Read the first letter in the first line, the second in the second, and so on

7. A knight spent his life searching for something he never found. Then he meets a "pilgrim shadow" who tells him where to go. What was the knight looking for? Eldorado Gilead The Holy Grail Atlantis

8. "The Sleeper" (1845) has been written before, in 1831. What was its title back then? Irene Lethe The Sleeper The Dead Who Groaned Within

9. Like in "A Valentine", also in "An Enigma" (1850), a name is hidden. To whom was this riddle dedicated? Helen Dinah George Frances Sargent Osgood Sarah Anna Lewis Marie Louise Shew

10. "The Raven" again: In which month does the story take place? December November January October