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Famous Poetry by a Line Trivia Quiz

Choose which of the poems includes the line given. Many of them are the actual opening lines of the poems.

A multiple-choice quiz by valrenee. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
valrenee

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
77,929

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
3371

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. 'I wandered lonely as a cloud...' Hint

'Solitude' by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

'The Day is Done' by Henry Wadworth Longfellow

'The Daffodils' by William Wordsworth

'The Cloud' by Percy Shelley

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Question 2 of 10

2. 'I think that I shall never see, a poem as lovely as a tree.' Hint

'Trees' by Sergeant Joyce Kilmer

'Plant a Tree' by Lucy Larcom

'Psalm of Life' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

'That Time of Year' by William Shakespeare

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Question 3 of 10

3. 'Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary...' Hint

'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe

'I Have Rendezvous With Death' by Alan Seeger

'Invictus' by William Ernest Henley

'To a Skylark' by Percy Shelley

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Question 4 of 10

4. 'Away to the window I flew in a flash, tore open the shutters and threw up the sash...' Hint

'Christmas Everywhere' by Phillips Brooks

'The Night Before Christmas' usually attributed to Clement Clarke Moore

'Paul Revere's Ride' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

'The Choir Invisible' by George Eliot

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Question 5 of 10

5. 'In a solitude of the sea, deep from the human vanity, And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she.' Hint

'The Convergence of the Twain' by Thomas Hardy

'The Retreat' by Henry Vaughan

'The Second Coming' by William Butler Yeats

'Concord Hymn' by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Question 6 of 10

6. 'Tyger, Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night'

Answer: (Two Words (by William Blake))

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Question 7 of 10

7. 'Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning' Hint

'Break of Day in the Trenches' by Isaac Rosenberg

'Ode to the Confederate Dead' by Allen Tate

'Not Waving but Drowning' by Stevie Smith

'If we Must Die' by Claude McKay

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Question 8 of 10

8. 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves. Did gyre and gimble in the wabe' Hint

'I'll Tell Thee Everything I Can' by Lewis Carroll.

'The Walrus and the Carpenter' by Lewis Carroll

'Jabberwocky' by Lewis Carroll

'How Doth the Little Crocodile' by Lewis Carroll

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Question 9 of 10

9. 'Gather ye Rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying' Hint

'To Althea, from Prison' by Richard Lovelace

'To Autumn' by John Keats

'Hear the Voice of the Bard' by William Blake

'To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time' by Robert Herrick

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Question 10 of 10

10. 'You do not do, you do not do, Any more, black shoe' Hint

'Chicago' by Carl Sandburg

'anyone lived in a pretty how town' by ee cummings

'Daddy' by Sylvia Plath

'In Memory of W.B. Yeats' by W.H. Auden

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. 'I wandered lonely as a cloud...'

Answer: 'The Daffodils' by William Wordsworth

In writing this poem, Wordsworth (b.1770-1850) considered it an experiment.

2. 'I think that I shall never see, a poem as lovely as a tree.'

Answer: 'Trees' by Sergeant Joyce Kilmer

Joyce Kilmer (b.1886) was a part of the 165th infantry and was killed in action near Ourcy, July 30, 1918.

3. 'Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary...'

Answer: 'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (b. 1809-1849) had his poem 'The Raven' first published in the New York Evening Mirror on January 29, 1845.

4. 'Away to the window I flew in a flash, tore open the shutters and threw up the sash...'

Answer: 'The Night Before Christmas' usually attributed to Clement Clarke Moore

Clement Clarke Moore (b. 1779-1863) was a professor of Oriental and Greek Literature at the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church and also wrote the Compendious Lexicon of the Hebrew Language long before this Christmas ballad made him famous in 1844.

The original name of the poem when it was first published was "A Visit from St. Nicholas". Recent research has led most literary scholars to the conclusion that Moore was not in fact the author of this famous poem - it was probably written by another poet, but it was originally published under Moore's name, and most people still think of it as his poem.

5. 'In a solitude of the sea, deep from the human vanity, And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she.'

Answer: 'The Convergence of the Twain' by Thomas Hardy

This was written about the loss of the Titanic by Thomas Hardy, known for writing about innocence.

6. 'Tyger, Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night'

Answer: The Tyger

William Blake (b. 1757-1827) influenced poets W.B. Yeats and Allen Ginsberg.

7. 'Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning'

Answer: 'Not Waving but Drowning' by Stevie Smith

Stevie Smith (b. 1902-1971) was the nickname for Florence Margaret Smith. She wrote this poem to show the craziness of postmodern thought-where reality and appearance have grown far apart.

8. 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves. Did gyre and gimble in the wabe'

Answer: 'Jabberwocky' by Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll (b. 1832-1898) was not only a writer and poet, but also a minister, photographer, and mathematician.

9. 'Gather ye Rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying'

Answer: 'To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time' by Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick (b. 1591-1674) wrote this famous carpe diem poem, which Robin Williams quotes in the movie 'Dead Poets Society'.

10. 'You do not do, you do not do, Any more, black shoe'

Answer: 'Daddy' by Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath (b. 1932-1963) vented her intense bitterness and sadness in her poetry. She committed suicide at the age of 31.

Source: Author valrenee

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