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Name the Poem Trivia Quiz

In this quiz, a line from a poem by a very famous poet will be given, along with the name of the poet. All you have to do is guess from the options which poem the line is from. Good luck!

A multiple-choice quiz by nutter2002. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
nutter2002

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
92,722

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
636

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. 'Continuous as the stars that shine and twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line, Along the margin of a bay.' Wordsworth wrote what poem that contains these lines? Hint

The Ruined Cottage

She was a Phantom of Delight

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

Ode

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Question 2 of 10

2. What poem by Keats contains the lines 'My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains, My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains, One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk'? Hint

Ode on a Grecian Urn

Ode to a Nightingale

Ode to a Psyche

The Eve of St Agnes

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Question 3 of 10

3. 'It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole, Unequal laws into a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.' These lines come from what poem by Tennyson? Hint

The Lotus-Eaters

Songs From the Princess

Ulysses

The Lady of Shallot

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Question 4 of 10

4. 'If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun, If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.' From which of Shakespeare's sonnets do these lines come? Hint

A woman's face, with nature's own hand painted

When my love swears that she is made of truth

No longer mourn for me when I am dead

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun

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Question 5 of 10

5. 'The foreward youth that would appear, Must now forsake his Muses dear, Nor in the shadows sing, His numbers languishing.' These lines come from what poem by Marvell? Hint

To his Coy Mistress

A Dialogue between the Soul and Body

The Garden

An Horatian Ode

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Question 6 of 10

6. 'Wherewithal, unto the heart's forest he fleeth, Leaving his enterprise with pain and cry; And these him hideth, and not appeareth.' Thomas Wyatt wrote these lines in which poem? Hint

It Is Possible

Patience, Though I have Not

What Should I say

The Long Love, That in My Thought Doth Harbour

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Question 7 of 10

7. In what poem did Ted Hughes write 'Through the window I see no star: Something more near Though deeper within darkness Is entering the loneliness'? Hint

Theology

Wind

The Thought -Fox

Pike

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Question 8 of 10

8. 'Once you, a woman, came, To soothe a time-torn man; even though it be You love not me?' From which Thomas Hardy poem do these lines come? Hint

Hap

A Broken Appointment

Neutral Tones

I Look Into My Glass

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Question 9 of 10

9. 'Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore - While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.' What is the title of this Edgar Allen Poe poem? Hint

The City in the Sea

The Raven

Eldorado

Sonnet- To Science

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Question 10 of 10

10. 'God of our fathers, known of old, Lord of our far-flung battle-line, Beneath whose awful Hand we hold Dominion over palm and pine.' In what poem did Rudyard Kipling write these lines? Hint

Recessional

Tommy

Epitaphs of the War

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. 'Continuous as the stars that shine and twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line, Along the margin of a bay.' Wordsworth wrote what poem that contains these lines?

Answer: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

William Wordsworth lived from 1770 to 1850. This poem is sometimes also known as "Daffodils" or "The Daffodils".

Answer: Ode to a Nightingale

John Keats lived from 1795 to 1821.

Answer: Ulysses

Alfred Lord Tennyson live from 1809 to 1892.

4. 'If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun, If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.' From which of Shakespeare's sonnets do these lines come?

Answer: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun

William Shakespeare, arguably the most famous man in literary history, lived between 1564 and 1616. Unlike other poems, sonnets do not use capital letters in their titles.

5. 'The foreward youth that would appear, Must now forsake his Muses dear, Nor in the shadows sing, His numbers languishing.' These lines come from what poem by Marvell?

Answer: An Horatian Ode

Andrew Marvell lived between 1621 and 1678. The full name of the poem is 'An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return to Ireland'.

6. 'Wherewithal, unto the heart's forest he fleeth, Leaving his enterprise with pain and cry; And these him hideth, and not appeareth.' Thomas Wyatt wrote these lines in which poem?

Answer: The Long Love, That in My Thought Doth Harbour

Thomas Wyatt lived between 1503 and 1542.

7. In what poem did Ted Hughes write 'Through the window I see no star: Something more near Though deeper within darkness Is entering the loneliness'?

Answer: The Thought -Fox

Ted Hughes died in 1998, aged 68.

8. 'Once you, a woman, came, To soothe a time-torn man; even though it be You love not me?' From which Thomas Hardy poem do these lines come?

Answer: A Broken Appointment

Thomas Hardy lived between 1840 and 1928. Along with his poetry, Hardy is famous for a number of novels, including 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles'.

Answer: The Raven

Edgar Allan Poe lived between 1809 and 1849.

10. 'God of our fathers, known of old, Lord of our far-flung battle-line, Beneath whose awful Hand we hold Dominion over palm and pine.' In what poem did Rudyard Kipling write these lines?

Answer: Recessional

Rudyard Kipling lived from 1865 to 1939.

Source: Author nutter2002

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