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John Steffler was the Parliamentary Poet Laureate of which country?
Poetry 3
This Specialist Books poetry quiz focuses on close reading. Explore how word choices, line breaks, and punctuation work together to shape meaning, rhythm, and emotion in a poem.
1 .
A Japanese haiku poem has how many syllables?
13
15
17
19
A haiku poem has 3 lines. The first and third both contain 5 syllables and the second contains 7
2 .
1n 2006 John Steffler was appointed Parliamentary Poet Laureate of which country?
Australia
Canada
New Zealand
South Africa
His 1992 novel The Afterlife of George Cartwright won the Thomas Head Raddall Award and his 1998 poetry collection That Night We Were Ravenous won the Atlantic Poetry Prize
3 .
What was the surname of the English humorist who devised the short verse form, the clerihew?
Bentley
Bradley
Clerihew
Cleremont
His full name was Edmund Clerihew Bentley
4 .
The poem Casabianca, by Felicia Hemans, begins with the famous line: "The boy stood on the burning deck". Which battle inspired the poem?
Battle of Cape St Vincent
Battle of Copenhagen
Battle of the Nile
Battle of Trafalgar
It commemorates an actual event on board a French ship. The son of its commander remained at his post and died when the fire caused an explosion.
5 .
Who wrote the lengthy poem The Wreck of the Deutschland?
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Alfred Edward Houseman
Henry Wadsorth Longfellow
Longfellow wrote The Wreck of the Hesperus
6 .
Which American Beat poet wrote the long poem Howl in 1956?
Neal Cassady
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Allen Ginsberg
Jack Kerouac
The poem was the subject of an obscenity trial, as it was openly homosexual at a time when that was illegal in the United States
7 .
What is the title of the Robert Louis Stevenson poem that begins with the line: "Faster than fairies, faster than witches"?
In a Railway Carriage
From a Railway Carriage
On a Railway Carriage
To a Railway Carriage
It comes from the 1885 collection A Child’s Garden of Verses
8 .
Who was imprisoned in 1873 for shooting the French poet Arthur Rimbaud?
Jean Cocteau
Victor Hugo
Paul Valery
Paul Verlaine
Verlaine, in a drunken, jealous rage at his rival, fired two shots at Rimbaud, wounding him, though not seriously. He was gaoled for 2 years
9 .
How many syllables are there in an iambic pentameter?
5
7
8
10
An example from Shakespeare's play Richard III - "Now is the winter of our discontent"
10 .
What were the first names of the British/American poet TS Eliot?
Thomas Staines
Thomas Stearns
Thomas Stones
Thomas Stynes
Elliot emigrated to Britain when he was 25 and he renounced his U.S. citizenship when he became a British subject aged 39
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