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Poetry Places Trivia Quiz

Match the poetry place or line that is mentioned with the poet who wrote about it.

A multiple-choice quiz by robert362. Estimated time: 3 mins.

Author
robert362

Time
3 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
69,101

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

Plays
507

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. 'By the shore of Gitchie Gumee ...' Hint

Ezra Pound

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

William Wordsworth

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Question 2 of 10

2. 'Sophocles long ago heard it in the Aegean ...' Hint

Dylan Thomas

W.H. Auden

Matthew Arnold

Thomas Gray

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Question 3 of 10

3. 'Gilead'. 'Aidenn'. Hint

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Percy Shelley

Edgar Allan Poe

John Keats

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Question 4 of 10

4. 'Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo ...' Hint

Carl Sandburg

A.E. Housman

Robert Frost

John Masefield

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Question 5 of 10

5. 'Mandalay'. Hint

Rudyard Kipling

Lord Byron

William Ernerst Henley

Alfred Noyes

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Question 6 of 10

6. 'In Xanadu did Kubla Khan ...' Hint

Oscar Wilde

Alexander Pope

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Thomas Hood

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Question 7 of 10

7. 'Tartary'. Hint

e.e. cummings

Robert Browning

Walter De La Mare

John Dryden

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Question 8 of 10

8. 'If I should die think only this of me, that there's some corner of a foreign field that is forever England ... Hint

Rupert Brooke

Alan Seeger

Wilfrid Owen

Siegfried Sassoon

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Question 9 of 10

9. 'Sailing to Byzantium'. 'Kiltartan Cross'. Hint

William Butler Yeats

John Donne

T.S. Eliot

Walt Whitman

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Question 10 of 10

10. 'Sonnets from the Portuguese' Hint

Emily Dickinson

Sylvia Plath

Christina Rossetti

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. 'By the shore of Gitchie Gumee ...'

Answer: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

'Song of Hiawatha'.

2. 'Sophocles long ago heard it in the Aegean ...'

Answer: Matthew Arnold

'Dover Beach'. 'Ah, love, let us be true to one another ...'

3. 'Gilead'. 'Aidenn'.

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

Both are from 'The Raven'. The narrator asks 'is there balm in Gilead?'. He later says: 'tell this soul with sorrow laden if within the distant Aidenn it shall clasp a sainted maiden ...' (Lenore, of course).

4. 'Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo ...'

Answer: Carl Sandburg

'The Grass'. It also refers to Gettysburg, Ypres and Verdun. 'I am the Grass, let me work'.

5. 'Mandalay'.

Answer: Rudyard Kipling

Mr. India himself. 'Mandalay' is the title.

6. 'In Xanadu did Kubla Khan ...'

Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A famous opening line by Coleridge.

7. 'Tartary'.

Answer: Walter De La Mare

The title of a poem by De La Mare. 'If I were Lord of Tartary ...'

8. 'If I should die think only this of me, that there's some corner of a foreign field that is forever England ...

Answer: Rupert Brooke

A famous line by Rupert Brooke. He died in WW I, as did Seeger (in combat) and Owen (one week before the armistice). Sassoon made it.

9. 'Sailing to Byzantium'. 'Kiltartan Cross'.

Answer: William Butler Yeats

'Sailing to Byzantium' is the title. Kiltartan Cross refers to 'An Irish Airman Foresees His Death': 'My country is Kiltartan Cross, my countrymen Kiltartan's poor ...'

10. 'Sonnets from the Portuguese'

Answer: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How Do I Love Thee', among others.

Source: Author robert362

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