Books Quiz - Poetry 2 (Answers)
Poetry comes in many forms – the ode, the villanelle or the haiku for example – but perhaps the type most famous is the sonnet. This form was a favourite of the Bard of Avon himself, William Shakespeare, who wrote more than 150 of them! Sonnets lend themselves beautifully to love poetry and have given us such enchanting lines as:
“Those lips that Love's own hand did make” or
"Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate."
Do you know which poet was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995? If so then you are likely to have very few problems answering the other questions in this second of four quizzes on poetry. Test yourself and see if you can get them all right!
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Plath was herself a poet, a novelist and a short-story writer
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It was written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I
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Blake was also an artist - you'll find a quiz on his life and works in our Specialist section on Art
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The poem begins: "Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough, |
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News of his death reached his parents on the 11th of November - Armistice Day
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The 434 line poem comes in 5 parts: The Burial of the Dead, A Game of Chess, The Fire Sermon, Death by Water and What the Thunder Said
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"This is the hour when forth he goes,
The Dong with a luminous Nose! Yonder--over the plain he goes, He goes! He goes; The Dong with a luminous Nose!" |
It's believed to have been written in the churchyard of Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire
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In the poem Yeats tries to construct an Irish form of poetry - rather than using the one popular with English poets
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Other writers have lauded Heaney as "the most important Irish poet since Yeats" and "the greatest poet of our age"
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