Batter my heart, three-personed God; for, you As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
Multiple Choice:
1. Adrienne Rich
2. John Donne
3. Algernon Charles Swinburne
4. Gerard Manley Hopkins
5. Camille Paglia
Answer:
2. John Donne <<<< Batter my heart, three person'd God; for, you"
__________
Name the quoted poet:
"What immortal hand or eye, / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?"
Multiple Choice:
1. Maya Angelou
2. William Shakespeare
3. William Blake
4. Gerard Manley Hopkins
Answer:
3. William Blake <<< The Tyger
__________
Name the quoted poet:
"Bare ruin'd choirs where late the sweet birds sang."
Multiple Choice:
1. William Blake
2. Percy Bysshe Shelley
3. John Keats
4. William Shakespeare
Answer:
4. William Shakespeare <<< SONNET 73
__________
Name the quoted poet:
"I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!"
Multiple Choice:
1. Percy Bysshe Shelley
2. John Keats
3. Lord Byron
4. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Answer:
1. Percy Bysshe Shelley <<< Ode to the West Wind
__________
Name the quoted poet:
"I caught this morning morning's minion."
Multiple Choice:
1. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
2. Algernon Charles Swinburne
3. Gerard Manley Hopkins
4. John Greenleaf Whittier
Answer:
3. Gerard Manley Hopkins << The Windhover
__________
Name the quoted poet:
Supple and turbulent, a ring of men
Shall chant in orgy on a summer morn
Their boisterous devotion to the sun,
Not as a god, but as a god might be.
Multiple Choice:
1. Wallace Stevens
2. Ezra Pound
3. Wallace Stevens
4. William Butler Yeats
5. Thomas Stearns Eliot
Answer:
1.Wallace Stevens <<< Sunday Morning
__________
Name the quoted poet:
"I could not love thee, Dear, so much, / Loved I not Honour more."
Multiple Choice:
1. Richard Lovelace
2. Christopher Marlowe
3. Sir John Suckling
4. Andrew Marvell
Answer:
1. Richard Lovelace <<< To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
__________
Name the quoted poet:
"Notice Neptune though, / Taming a sea horse."
Multiple Choice:
1. Edgar Allan Poe
2. Robert Browning
3. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
4. Matthew Arnold
Answer:
2. Robert Browning <<< My Last Duchess
__________
Name the quoted poet:
"His truth is marching on."
Multiple Choice:
1. Katharine Eliska Kimbriel
2. Harriet Beecher Stowe
3. Julia Ward Howe
4. Christina Georgina Rossetti
Answer:
2. Harriet Beecher Stowe <<< Battle Hymn of the Republic
__________
Name the quoted poet:
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world
Multiple Choice:
1. William Butler Yeats
2. Thomas Hardy
3. T.S. Eliot
4. W.B. Yeats
Answer:
1. William Butler Yeats <<< The Second Coming
_________
Name the quoted poet:
"I grow old ... I grow old ... / I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled."
Multiple Choice:
1. T.S. Eliot
2. W.B. Yeats
3. A.E. Housman
4. Wallace Stevens
Answer:
2. T.S. Eliot <<< The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
_________
Name the quoted poet:
They also serve who only stand and wait."
Multiple Choice:
1. John Milton
2. William Shakespeare
3. Edmund Spenser
4. John Donne
Answer:
1. John Milton <<< On His Blindness
_________
Name the quoted poet:
When old age shall this generation waste,
Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Multiple Choice:
1. John Keats
2. George Gordon Byron
3. Percy Bysshe Shelley
4. William Wordsworth
Answer:
1. John Keats. Ode on a Grecian Urn
_________
Name the quoted poet:
"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
Multiple Choice:
1. Walt Whitman
2. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
3. George Gordon Byron
4. Alfred Lord Tennyson
Answer:
4. Alfred, Lord Tennyson <<< Ulysses
__________
Name the quoted poet:
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world.
Multiple Choice:
1. Walt Whitman
2. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
3. Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. John Greenleaf Whittier
Answer:
3. Ralph Waldo Emerson. <<< Concord Hymn
__________
Name the quoted poet:
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Multiple Choice:
1. Wilfred Owen
2. Ezra Pound
3. Hart Crane
4. Matthew Arnold
Answer:
4. Matthew Arnold <<< "Dover Beach"
_________
Name the quoted poet:
This is the lower sling swivel. And this
Is the upper sling swivel, whose use you will see,
When you are given your slings. And this is the piling swivel,
Which in your case you have not got.
Multiple Choice:
1. Wilfred Owen
2. Theodore Roethke
3. Henry Reed
4. Richard Eberhardt
Answer:
3. Henry Reed <<< Naming of Parts
_________
Name the quoted poet:
"And not waving but drowning."
Multiple Choice:
1. Sylvia Plath
2. Elizabeth Bishop
3. Marianne Moore
4. Stevie Smith
Answer:
4. Stevie Smith <<< Not Waving But Drowning
_________
Name the quoted poet:
"My soul has grown deep like rivers."
Multiple Choice:
1. Langston Hughes
2. Allen Ginsberg
3. Robinson Jeffers
4. David Herbert Lawrence
Answer:
1. Langston Hughes The Negro Speaks of Rivers
__________
Name the quoted poet:
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.
Multiple Choice:
1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
2. Lewis Carroll
3. Edgar Allan Poe
4. William Blake
Answer:
1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge <<< Kubla Khan
_________
Name the quoted poet:
"Stone walls do not a prison make, / Nor iron bars a cage."
Multiple Choice:
1. Richard LoveLace
2. William Shakespeare
3. Andrew Marvell
4. John Dryden
Answer:
1. Richard LoveLace <<< To Althea, From Prison
