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Contemporary American Poets and Their Verse
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How well do you know contemporary American poetry?
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10 Q
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iloveyanira
Oct 15 09
126 plays
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Carol Ann Duffy's "Selling Manhattan"
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This quiz centres around the Scottish poet Carol Ann Duffy, and more specifically her second collection of poetry, "Selling Manhattan", which was published in 1987.
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Tough
10 Q
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poshprice
Jul 05 08
129 plays
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Poetic Parodies
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Verse parody in English is as least as old as Chaucer, but this quiz deals with the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Can you identify the poets who are the authors or targets of ten parodies?
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Average
10 Q
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TabbyTom
Jul 20 05
417 plays
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You Know More Poetry Than You Think!
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Just as we all know a little classical music from watching old Bugs Bunny cartoons, everyone has picked up bits and tag ends of poetry. Just complete the line.
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Average
25 Q
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agony
Mar 02 03
4404 plays
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Immortal Lines from Classic Poems
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This quiz is about some of the most famous opening/last lines in English poetry over the centuries. Identify the poem from the lines given. You will hopefully go back and read the whole poem after this quiz :)
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Average
10 Q
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srini701
Jun 23 09
615 plays
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The Epic Poem
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The narrative epic poem is one of the first forms of literature throughout the world. See if you can answer 20 questions about this genre.
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Tough
15 Q
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pericles34
Apr 08 09
186 plays
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Are you Averse to Verse?
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I give you the first of two lines of verse from some classic poems of English Literature and you finish the couplet for me. What could be easier?
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Average
10 Q
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bracklaman
Aug 09 07
555 plays
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Memorable Poetry Recalled
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This quiz is about poems I have loved and lived with since I was a child. I delight in sharing them with you now. So, I give you some first lines of some memorable poems and a clue or two and you tell me the poet.
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Average
10 Q
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bracklaman
Jul 08 07
696 plays
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Desiderata
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This wonderful prose poem, "Desiderata" (Latin for "desired things"), copyrighted in 1927 by Max Ehrmann, is about attaining happiness in life. I adopted "Desiderata" as my credo as a teen in the early 1970s. I hope you like it as much as I do!
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Average
10 Q
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Footsie1
Apr 08 07
291 plays
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William McGonagall -The World's Best Bad Poet?
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To achieve such a standard as to be remembered over a century later as his country's second most famous poet (after Robert Burns), surely demonstrates William McGonagall's achievements in the field of poetic incompetence.
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Tough
10 Q
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xpress
May 02 09
96 plays
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The Ten Most Anthologized Poems
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William Harmon edited a book entitled "The Top 500 Poems", which contains all the top 500 English-language poems, as determined by how frequently each poem has been anthologized. Here are questions about the top ten of those 500 poems.
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Tough
10 Q
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chessart
Aug 01 09
309 plays
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A World of Women Poets
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Her name, birth country, birth year, the title of (or a line from) one of her poems. I'll give you three (I'm generous like that) and you pick the fourth. The real objective is to learn more about these well-versed women. For the poetry-obsessed only!
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Tough
20 Q
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LilahDeDah
Aug 27 04
528 plays
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Neoclassical Poetry
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Labels, labels everywhere. Now we explore “neoclassical” poetry, with an emphasis on Pope and Dryden.
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Difficult
25 Q
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skylarb
Feb 21 03
345 plays
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William Blake: The Prophet Poet
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Questions are primarily concerned with Blake's poetry, but a few biographical facts are inserted for good measure.
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Difficult
20 Q
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skylarb
Jul 25 03
435 plays
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Sonnets from the Portuguese
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'Sonnets from the Portuguese' is a collection of poems which chronicle the real love story of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Written in Victorian times, they are still read and quoted today. This quiz covers the sonnets and the story behind them
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Tough
10 Q
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luckycharm60
Apr 24 09
102 plays
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Metaphysical Poets
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Questions about the great metaphysical poets and their verses, with emphasis on Donne and Herbert. (Note: odd spellings in quotes are the poets' original spellings.)
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Difficult
25 Q
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skylarb
Jan 30 03
504 plays
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Poet's Potpourri
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Poetry has been around since before Christ and it is used by poets to express emotions, life experiences and events. Can you guess the name of the poems by the lines I give you? Good Luck!
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Tough
10 Q
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Soozy_Woozy
Jan 27 08
330 plays
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Discover a Golden Treasury of Poetry
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My grandchildren are starting to enjoy poetry so I reflected on what lines of poesy had charmed me in my formative years. I took the battered copy of my much loved “Palgrave’s Golden Treasury”, leafed through and rediscovered these gems.
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Tough
10 Q
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bracklaman
Apr 08 07
357 plays
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Bad Poetry
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Below are some really terrible poems which I've written. Can you identify whom or what they're supposed to be about?
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Average
10 Q
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Islingtonian
Nov 17 02
2898 plays
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Tonight We Dream In Poems
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Whoa. What a curious dream. I'm sitting in this unfamiliar, grand dining room with settings for 12. In walk ten individuals, some I recognize and some I don't. They begin to talk in verse. I take a seat and invite you to join me...
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Tough
10 Q
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themats
Aug 03 05
318 plays
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W. B. throws a party
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Brrrr! W.B., I do wish you would not hold soirees in this drafty tower. How many of W.B. Yeats distinguished literary guests do you recognise? You need to really know your poets for this quiz. Enjoy.
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Difficult
10 Q
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Fiachra
Sep 09 03
336 plays
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Lines from Poems (Flowers and Trees)
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The poetic lines quoted contain references to flowers, fruits or trees. Can you identify the poet?
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Tough
10 Q
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cristabel56
May 15 04
330 plays
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Modern Poets and Their Works
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This quiz is designed to test how much you know about modern world poets ... enjoy!
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Difficult
10 Q
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nerthus
Apr 11 00
495 plays
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"The Nation's Favourite Poems" Name the Author
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All poems are taken from the BBC's book: "The Nation's Favourite Poems." I will give you two lines from each poem and ask you to pick the author.
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Average
10 Q
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cmt101
Nov 04 07
324 plays
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Symbolism in Sufi Poetry
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Most Sufi poetry has two meanings, using earthly terminology to symbolize divinity. My main reference for this quiz was Peter Lamborn Wilson, especially the foreword to "The Drunken Universe".
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Difficult
10 Q
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kordo_vos
Sep 16 07
138 plays
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Name That Romantic Poem
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Match these excerpts from famous poems to their authors or titles. All of the selected poems are by British authors, and were written during the Romantic period.
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Average
15 Q
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chicknator
Aug 24 03
558 plays
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Famous Poems
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This is a poem for all those who love poetry. I will give you the name of a famous poem, and you choose the poet who wrote it!
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Average
20 Q
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sapient
Jul 29 02
1464 plays
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Name the Poet From the Line
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Name the poet from the line. There is of course a catch. I have put the poem in the words of famous actors and you know they have a tendenacy to adlib.
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Difficult
10 Q
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professorjon
Aug 14 02
1194 plays
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Scorn Not the Sonnet
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In honor of one of poetry’s most popular forms, this quiz covers a wide variety of poets who have seen fit to seize the sonnet.
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Difficult
15 Q
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skylarb
Mar 02 03
348 plays
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16th - 18th Century British Poetry
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Identify the poet from either the lines or title provided.
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Average
10 Q
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RavenHex
Mar 27 02
624 plays
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