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Last Lines of Famous Poems Trivia Quiz

The title pretty much says it all. Try to identify which poem ends with these lines. If you like this, I have a similar quiz consisting of last lines of famous novels. Yeah, I know, I need a new shtick.

A multiple-choice quiz by kmria. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
kmria

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
69,070

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
1458

Last 3 plays: mfc (10/10), Guest 85 (5/10), crossesq (10/10).

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Question 1 of 10

1. 'Time held me green and dying; Though I sang in my chains like the sea.' Hint

'When I Was One-and-Twenty'

'The Road Not Taken'

'Fern Hill'

'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'

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Question 2 of 10

2. 'To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.' Hint

'Virtue'

'My Heart Leaps Up'

'Ulysses'

'If We Must Die'

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Question 3 of 10

3. 'Fled is that music - Do I wake or sleep?' Hint

'Ode to a Nightingale'

'L'Allegro'

'The Bells'

'Pied Beauty'

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Question 4 of 10

4. 'Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.' Hint

'O Captain! My Captain!'

'The Ocean'

'The World Is Too Much with Us'

'Ulysses'

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Question 5 of 10

5. 'They hand in hand with wand'ring steps and slow,; Through Eden took their solitary way.' Hint

'Paradise Lost'

'God's Grandeur'

'The Waste Land'

'Easter 1916'

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Question 6 of 10

6. 'Because the Holy Ghost over the bent; World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings' Hint

'God's Grandeur'

'Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord'

'Paradise Lost'

'Lucifer in Starlight'

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Question 7 of 10

7. 'And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,; Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?' Hint

'Jabberwocky'

'Redemption'

'The Tiger'

'The Second Coming'

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Question 8 of 10

8. 'The firmness makes my circle just,; And makes me end where I begun' Hint

'The Inferno'

'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning'

'No Second Troy'

'Home Thoughts from Abroad'

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Question 9 of 10

9. 'We die soon' Hint

'Because I Could Not Stop for Death'

'Charge of the Light Brigade'

'We Real Cool'

'Death Be Not Proud'

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Question 10 of 10

10. 'Till human voices wake us, and we drown.' Hint

'She Walks in Beauty'

'Annabel Lee'

'Kubla Khan'

'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. 'Time held me green and dying; Though I sang in my chains like the sea.'

Answer: 'Fern Hill'

By Dylan Thomas. A rueful reminiscence of childhood.

2. 'To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.'

Answer: 'Ulysses'

Tennyson anyone? I've read that this was a favorite poem of the Kennedy brothers.

3. 'Fled is that music - Do I wake or sleep?'

Answer: 'Ode to a Nightingale'

By Keats

4. 'Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.'

Answer: 'The World Is Too Much with Us'

Wordsworth's ode to Paganism.

5. 'They hand in hand with wand'ring steps and slow,; Through Eden took their solitary way.'

Answer: 'Paradise Lost'

Now you know how it ends.

6. 'Because the Holy Ghost over the bent; World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings'

Answer: 'God's Grandeur'

By G M Hopkins. A great poem about Man destroying Nature and God renewing it.

7. 'And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,; Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?'

Answer: 'The Second Coming'

By Yeats. This poem has provided the title for works by artists as diverse and Joan Didion and The Roots, among others

8. 'The firmness makes my circle just,; And makes me end where I begun'

Answer: 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning'

Rave on John Donne.

9. 'We die soon'

Answer: 'We Real Cool'

By Chicago's own Gwendolyn Brooks

10. 'Till human voices wake us, and we drown.'

Answer: 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'

A fascinating poem by T S Eliot

Source: Author kmria

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