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William Blake wrote The Tyger in 1794.
Poetry 2
Poetry plays with language, sound, and structure. This quiz explores how figurative language helps poems express complex ideas, emotions, and images in a concentrated, memorable way.
1 .
The American, Sylvia Plath, married which English poet in 1956?
John Betjeman
Ted Hughes
Philip Larkin
Louis MacNeice
Plath was herself a poet, a novelist and a short-story writer
2 .
Which 16th century Poet Laureate is best remembered for his epic poem The Faerie Queen?
Thomas Campion
John Donne
Christopher Marlowe
Edmund Spenser
It was written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I
3 .
Which poet wrote The Tyger, around 1794?
William Blake
Robert Burns
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Robert Southey
Blake was also an artist - you'll find a quiz on his life and works in our Specialist section on Art
4 .
In his 1937 poem, John Betjeman invited bombs to fall on which town?
Slough
Staines
Surbiton
Swindon
The poem begins:
"Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough,
It isn't fit for humans now"
5 .
Which poet was killed in France on the 4th of November 1918?
Rupert Brooke
Wilfred Owen
Siegfried Sassoon
Edward Thomas
News of his death reached his parents on the 11th of November - Armistice Day
6 .
According to the first line of TS Eliot's poem The Waste Land, which is the cruellest month?
February
April
October
December
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
7 .
According to Edward Lear's nonsense poem, who has a luminous nose?
The Bong
The Dong
The Pong
The Wong
"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!"
The Dong with a luminous Nose!
Yonder--over the plain he goes,
He goes!
He goes;
The Dong with a luminous Nose!"
8 .
Who wrote the 1751 poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard?
William Cowper
Thomas Gray
Samuel Johnson
Charles Lamb
It's believed to have been written in the churchyard of Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire
9 .
Which Irish poet wrote The Lake Isle of Innisfree in 1892?
Stephen Lucius Gwynn
James Joyce
Oscar Wilde
WB Yeats
In the poem Yeats tries to construct an Irish form of poetry - rather than using the one popular with English poets
10 .
Which poet was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995?
Maya Angelou
Seamus Heaney
Ted Hughes
Andrew Motion
Other writers have lauded Heaney as "the most important Irish poet since Yeats" and "the greatest poet of our age"
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