Saturday, April 2, 2011

QUIZ: NAME THE QUOTED POET

Name the quoted poet:
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