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Quiz about For Poetry Lovers
Quiz about For Poetry Lovers

For Poetry Lovers Trivia Quiz


Welcome to our poetry readings. Please take your seats, relax and enjoy a revisit to some of the finest moments in English literature. Are you ready? Then let us begin.

A multiple-choice quiz by Fiachra. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
Fiachra
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
144,128
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
6 / 10
Plays
659
Last 3 plays: Guest 172 (6/10), Guest 98 (3/10), matthewpokemon (10/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. We begin with a journey "Whan that Aprille with his showres sote,
The droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote". Author please?
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Question 2 of 10
2. "I confess thy writings to be such
As neither man nor muse can praise too much". Who was Ben Jonson writing about?
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Question 3 of 10
3. What metaphysical poet penned these lines?
"When God at first made man
Having a glass of blessings standing by."
Let us(He said), pour on him all we can".
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Question 4 of 10
4. I'm sure no one here tonight will have trouble putting in the right word in this couplet.
"Forever cursed be this detested day
Which snatched my best, my favourite ... away".
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Question 5 of 10
5. "Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all
Ye know on earth and all ye need to know."
In which of Keats' odes are these lines found?
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Question 6 of 10
6. Dating probably from 1797 which Romantic poet penned these magical lines?
"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure dome decree,
Where Alph the sacred river ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea."
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Question 7 of 10
7. "Unborn tomorrow and dead yesterday,
Why fret about them if today be sweet."
Who translated 'The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam'?
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Question 8 of 10
8. Which little bird inspired Hardy to write
"Some blessed hope whereof he knew
And I was unaware."?
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Question 9 of 10
9. Which 19th century poet wrote 'Inversnaid'? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Let us end with a light hearted question. Who, according to T.S. Eliot, measured
"out my life in coffee spoons"?
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Most Recent Scores
Mar 24 2024 : Guest 172: 6/10
Feb 23 2024 : Guest 98: 3/10
Feb 16 2024 : matthewpokemon: 10/10
Feb 16 2024 : workisboring: 10/10
Feb 16 2024 : dellastreet: 9/10

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. We begin with a journey "Whan that Aprille with his showres sote, The droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote". Author please?

Answer: Chaucer

The opening lines to the 'Prologue of the Canterbury Tales'. A delightful medieval tale of a motley group of pilgrims on their way to Thomas a Becket's shrine in Canterbury.
2. "I confess thy writings to be such As neither man nor muse can praise too much". Who was Ben Jonson writing about?

Answer: Shakespeare

The lines come from "To the Memory of my Beloved, the author, Mr. William Shakespeare and what he hath left us." Certainly one of the longest titles I have come across.
3. What metaphysical poet penned these lines? "When God at first made man Having a glass of blessings standing by." Let us(He said), pour on him all we can".

Answer: Herbert

This delightful poem is built on a conceit like Pandora's box. The only difference is God retained rest instead of hope, believing that a longing for rest would draw all souls back to Him. Herbert was a minister and many of his finest poems have a religious theme.
4. I'm sure no one here tonight will have trouble putting in the right word in this couplet. "Forever cursed be this detested day Which snatched my best, my favourite ... away".

Answer: Curl

Of course, you recognise Alexander Pope at his wittiest in this send- up of an Augustan bimbo. He called her Belinda, showing she was making a fuss over nothing. Pope later wrote an introduction, in which in true mock heroic style, he revealed the woman's identity, as Mrs. Arabella Fermor. It is deliciously wickedly funny.
5. "Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all Ye know on earth and all ye need to know." In which of Keats' odes are these lines found?

Answer: Ode on a Grecian Urn

Keats once wrote that he hoped to live until "my pen has gleaned my teeming brain". He died aged 26, having enriched us with a fabulous legacy.
6. Dating probably from 1797 which Romantic poet penned these magical lines? "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree, Where Alph the sacred river ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea."

Answer: Coleridge

Coleridge wrote this fragment which he recalled from a drugged sleep. A visitor from Porlock interrupted him and the work was never completed. Visitors still often come at the wrong time.
7. "Unborn tomorrow and dead yesterday, Why fret about them if today be sweet." Who translated 'The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam'?

Answer: Fitzgerald

Khayyam was a Persian poet and astronomer from the 11th century. Fitzgerald translated this work in the mid nineteenth century and it has been very popular since.
8. Which little bird inspired Hardy to write "Some blessed hope whereof he knew And I was unaware."?

Answer: Thrush

Hardy was alone in a bleak wintry countryside, where he leant upon a "coppice gate", where the song of a "blast beruffled" thrush lifted his gloomy spirits.
9. Which 19th century poet wrote 'Inversnaid'?

Answer: Hopkins

What Van Gogh was to art, Hopkins, in my humble opinion, was to literature, a genius with a troubled soul. In his nature poetry he took the English language shook it up and injected it with dynamic raw energy.
"Degged with dew, dappled with dew,
Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through". This describes just one movement of the stream in 'Inversnaid'.
Hopkins developed two new poetic concepts, instress and inscape, in his 'Terrible Sonnets', to try to verbalise the mental angst of a manic depressive.
10. Let us end with a light hearted question. Who, according to T.S. Eliot, measured "out my life in coffee spoons"?

Answer: J Alfred Prufrock

Of course, you all are correct. That concludes this evening's entertainment. The next programme will concentrate exclusively on twentieth century poetry and I look forward to your company.
Good night and drive safely.
Source: Author Fiachra

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