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Quiz about Lines from Poems Flowers and Trees

Lines from Poems (Flowers and Trees) Quiz

The poetic lines quoted contain references to flowers, fruits or trees. Can you identify the poet?

A multiple-choice quiz by cristabel56. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
cristabel56

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
179,708

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
6 / 10

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438

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Question 1 of 10

1. Which poet wrote "A filbert hedge with wildbriar overtwined,/And clumps of woodbine taking the soft wind"? Hint

John Donne

William Wordsworth

John Keats

William Shakespeare

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Question 2 of 10

2. Who wrote "Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade,/Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap,"? Hint

Thomas Gray

Ted Hughes

Robert Frost

Andrew Marvell

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Question 3 of 10

3. Which poet wrote these lines? "I went out to the hazel wood,/Because a fire was in my head," Hint

John Keats

Dylan Thomas

Rudyard Kipling

W.B. Yeats

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Question 4 of 10

4. Which poet wrote the following lines? "Thou art more lovely and more temperate:/Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May" Hint

John Donne

William Shakespeare

John Keats

Christopher Marlowe

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Question 5 of 10

5. Can you name the poet who wrote the following lines? "For where the old thick laurels grow, along the thin red wall," Hint

Rudyard Kipling

John Milton

W.B. Yeats

Robert Burns

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Question 6 of 10

6. Which poet wrote "Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs/About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,"? Hint

John Betjeman

Phillip Larkin

Dylan Thomas

Ted Hughes

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Question 7 of 10

7. Can you name the poet who wrote these famous lines? "O my Luve's like a red, red rose/That's newly sprung in June:" Hint

Robert Burns

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sir Walter Scott

Edward Lear

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Question 8 of 10

8. Which poet wrote these lines? "The Nectaren, and curious Peach,/Into my hands themselves do reach;/Stumbling on Melons, as I pass,/Insnar'd with Flow'rs,I fall on Grass." Hint

John Donne

Andrew Marvell

John Milton

William Wordsworth

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Question 9 of 10

9. Another well-known quote but who wrote it? "They are not long, the days of wine and roses:" Hint

Robert Graves

Ernest Dowson

John Milton

William Shakespeare

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Question 10 of 10

10. Who else, besides Wordsworth, wrote a poem about daffodils which contains these lines? "Remember how we picked the daffodils?/Nobody else remembers, but I remember." Hint

Phillip Larkin

John Betjeman

Dylan Thomas

Ted Hughes

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Which poet wrote "A filbert hedge with wildbriar overtwined,/And clumps of woodbine taking the soft wind"?

Answer: John Keats

From "I Stood Tip-Toe Upon a Little Hill" by John Keats 1795-1821. Keats was considered to be a key element in the Romantic Movement.

2. Who wrote "Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade,/Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap,"?

Answer: Thomas Gray

From "Elegy Written In a Country Churchyard" by Thomas Gray 1716-1771. This poem was probably begun in 1742, following the death of his close friend Richard West, but it was not published until 1751.

3. Which poet wrote these lines? "I went out to the hazel wood,/Because a fire was in my head,"

Answer: W.B. Yeats

From "The Song of Wandering Aengus" by W.B. Yeats 1865-1939. It is from the collection "The Wind Among the Reeds" published in 1899 when the poet's aim was to revive Irish folklore, legends and myths.

4. Which poet wrote the following lines? "Thou art more lovely and more temperate:/Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May"

Answer: William Shakespeare

From "Sonnet XVIII" by William Shakespeare 1564-1616. What is there to say about Shakespeare?

5. Can you name the poet who wrote the following lines? "For where the old thick laurels grow, along the thin red wall,"

Answer: Rudyard Kipling

From "The Glory of the Garden" by Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.

6. Which poet wrote "Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs/About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,"?

Answer: Dylan Thomas

From "Fern Hill" by Dylan Thomas 1914-1953. This poem was published in his fourth poetry collection "Deaths and Entrances".

7. Can you name the poet who wrote these famous lines? "O my Luve's like a red, red rose/That's newly sprung in June:"

Answer: Robert Burns

From "A Red, Red Rose" by Robert Burns 1759-1796. Scotland's most celebrated poet who could be bawdy and vulgar, but also romantic.

8. Which poet wrote these lines? "The Nectaren, and curious Peach,/Into my hands themselves do reach;/Stumbling on Melons, as I pass,/Insnar'd with Flow'rs,I fall on Grass."

Answer: Andrew Marvell

From "The Garden" by Andrew Marvell 1621-1678. Marvell was considered a metaphysical poet. He worked as an assistant to John Milton and was appointed Member of Parliament for Hull in 1659. His reputation as a poet grew after his death.

9. Another well-known quote but who wrote it? "They are not long, the days of wine and roses:"

Answer: Ernest Dowson

From "THEY ARE NOT LONG" by Ernest Dowson 1867-1900. On going to London after leaving Oxford without a degree, he joined the literary circle of Aubrey Beardsley and Oscar Wilde.

10. Who else, besides Wordsworth, wrote a poem about daffodils which contains these lines? "Remember how we picked the daffodils?/Nobody else remembers, but I remember."

Answer: Ted Hughes

From "Daffodils" by Ted Hughes 1930-98. He was poet laureate until his death. This poem was published in his last collection "Birthday Letters".

Source: Author cristabel56

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