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Even if you don't read a lot of poetry, you've probablky heard a number of this poet's famous lines: "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" appears near the end of 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'; "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever" opens 'Endymion'.
2 John Keats quizzes and 25 John Keats trivia questions.
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  The Poetry & Life of John Keats    
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This quiz encompasses the great poetry and short life of John Keats.
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  O for a draught of Keats!   popular trivia quiz  
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A quiz on the poetry of John Keats.
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John Keats Trivia Questions
1. John Keats wrote many of what kind of poem?

From Quiz The Poetry & Life of John Keats

Answer: Odes

Keats wrote many odes to things (e.g. "Ode on a Grecian Urn") and feelings (e.g. "Ode on Indolence") throughout his life.

2. This sonnet sparked Keats's literary fame in 1816.

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Answer: On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

The last four lines of this poem contains an error, though an error made in favor of a better sounding line: "Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes / He star'd at the Pacific--and all his men / Look'd at each other with a wild surmise-- / Silent, upon a peak in Darien." (It was Balboa who stood on Darien and stared at the Pacific, but "Cortez" carries better that sense of conquering ferocity necessary to a "stout" stature with "eagle eyes" ;) ).

3. In Keats' final sonnet, "Bright Star, would I were steadfast as thou art", to whom does the title, "Bright Star" refer?

From Quiz The Poetry & Life of John Keats

Answer: Fanny Brawne

Fanny Brawne became Keats' fiance, whom he never got the chance to marry. Margaret Brawne is Fanny's younger sister.

4. Keats wrote many Odes. In "Ode on Melancholy," Keats encourages the reader (or, perhaps, himself) to "go not" to which river from classical mythology?

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Answer: Lethe

The souls of the dead drank from these waters to forget their earthly lives. Talk about "drowning your sorrows"...

5. "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever" is the opening line of which poem?

From Quiz The Poetry & Life of John Keats

Answer: Endymion

This is the beginning of a 4-book epic poem concerning the Greek mythological character, Endymion.

6. In an ode to/on this, Keats writes: "What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape / Of deities or mortals, or of both, / In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?"

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Answer: A Grecian Urn

This poem was a favorite of the so-called "New Critics" of the "New Criticism" school of literary theory in the early twentieth century. It led Cleanth Brooks to say, "I'd kill my aunt Tilly to be able to write 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'!" (note: new criticism seeks to move away from the overemphasis on finding the moral meaning in a work, endeavoring instead to appreciate the work in-and-of-itself. Hence Brooks's statement). Or so our lit professor told us.

7. Keats's poem, "Endymion", is made up of how many books?

From Quiz The Poetry & Life of John Keats

Answer: Four

One of Keats's most famous epics, "Endymion", is structured into 4 books.

8. This ode is prefaced with this passage from Scripture: "They toil not, neither do they spin".

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Answer: Ode on Indolence

From Matt. 6.28 (KJV).

9. To which movement did Keats belong?

From Quiz The Poetry & Life of John Keats

Answer: Romanticism

Keats was one of the Romantic poets along with Coleridge and Lord Byron.

10. There are two editions of "La Belle Dame Sans Merci", with the title of the hero of the first version being "knight-at-arms"; what is the hero's title in the amended version?

From Quiz The Poetry & Life of John Keats

Answer: Wretched Wight

Keats wrote the original in 1819, but it was amended later, with speculation as to who did alter the poem.

11. Keats wrote some longer poems too. This one tells the tale of a mortal searching for an immortal goddess whom he has seen in several visions.

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Answer: Endymion

Keats was apparently not very proud of his 4,000-line achievement; he prefaces the poem: "Knowing within myself the manner in which this Poem has been produced, it is not without a feeling of regret that I make it public." He goes on to debunk the amateur style in which he feels he wrote the poem.

12. The hero of which poem is the "knight at arms, alone and palely loitering"?

From Quiz The Poetry & Life of John Keats

Answer: La Belle Dame Sans Merci

The knight is dying of the chains that society and tradition has placed on him when he comes across the metaphysical Belle Dame Sans Merci.

13. Which fellow poet wrote "Adonais" as an elegy to Keats?

From Quiz The Poetry & Life of John Keats

Answer: Shelley

Shelley also spent time in Italy. He wrote "Adonais" in Spenserian stanzas seven weeks after Keats's death.

14. "The Eve of St. Agnes" is written as a sequence of stanzas. Who created this stanza form?

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Answer: Edmund Spenser

The form is as follows: ababbcbcb, with the last line forming an Alexandrine (12 syllables instead of 10). Spencer used this form to compose the Faerie Queene. (note: this question has been corrected. apologies to those who got it incorrect due the incorrect information).

15. While on the subject, who is St. Agnes?

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Answer: the patron saint of virgins

St. Agnes was martyred ca. 303 at the age of thirteen. The tradition is for a chaste young woman to perform the proper ritual, and she will accordingly dream of her husband on the evening before St. Agnes day, January 21.

16. Keats wrote a sonnet to this famous poet, in which he wrote: "Standing aloof in giant ignorance, / Of thee I hear and of the Cyclades, / As one who sits ashore and longs perchance / To visit dolphin-coral in deep seas".

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Answer: Homer

The "Cyclades" should narrow it down to Virgil and Homer. Then you just have to know ;).

17. Keats wrote many letters in addition to poetry. To whom in particular did he write many love letters?

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Answer: Fanny Brawne

Fanny was Keats' fiancee, but his sickness and poverty prevented their engagement from ever coming to fruition.

18. In what poem does a wanton woman entrance a "woebegone" knight with her beauty and playfulness, only to lead him into a despairing state of solitude.

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Answer: La Belle Dame Sans Merci

It is technically a "ballad".

19. Befitting of a final question, unless it's already come upon you, this poem ends, "Turn the key deftly in the oiled wards, / And seal the hushed casket of my soul."

From Quiz O for a draught of Keats!

Answer: Sonnet to Sleep

Good night.

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