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Poems of Sadness and Loss Trivia Quiz

Match the lines from the poem with the poet who wrote them.

A multiple-choice quiz by robert362. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
robert362

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
191,774

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
654

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. "Rage against the dying of the light". Hint

Alexander Pope

Dylan Thomas

William Blake

Matthew Arnold

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Question 2 of 10

2. "If I should die, think only this of me: that there is some corner of a foreign field that is forever England". Hint

Thomas Hardy

Rupert Brooke

Robert Browning

Richard Lovelace

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Question 3 of 10

3. "A waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death". Hint

T.S. Eliot

William Butler Yeats

Thomas Gray

Rudyard Kipling

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Question 4 of 10

4. "Oh, for the touch of a vanish'd hand and the sound of a voice that is still". Hint

Carl Sandburg

A.E. Housman

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

John Donne

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Question 5 of 10

5. "For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams of the beautiful Annabel Lee". Hint

Edgar Allan Poe

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Charles Baudelaire

Oscar Wilde

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Question 6 of 10

6. "Now that I am without you all is desolate, everything that was once so beautiful is dead". Hint

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Robert Burns

Conrad Aiken

John Masefield

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Question 7 of 10

7. "But she is in her grave and oh - the difference to me". Hint

John Dryden

Robert Frost

William Wordsworth

Walt Whitman

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Question 8 of 10

8. "It may be he shall take my hand and lead me into his dark land". Hint

Wilfred Owen

Alan Seeger

John Keats

Siegfried Sassoon

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Question 9 of 10

9. "And now I live - and now my life is done". Hint

Chidiock Tichbourne

W.H. Auden

Lord Byron

Ernest Dowson

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Question 10 of 10

10. "Even the beloved clear stars look desolately down since I learned in my heart that Love can die". Hint

John Clare

Heinrich Heine

Hermann Hesse

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. "Rage against the dying of the light".

Answer: Dylan Thomas

"Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" was written by Dylan Thomas about his ailing father. It is perhaps his best poem.

2. "If I should die, think only this of me: that there is some corner of a foreign field that is forever England".

Answer: Rupert Brooke

This is the opening line of "The Soldier". Brooke, a soldier in World War I, perished during the war.

3. "A waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death".

Answer: William Butler Yeats

"An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" was another look at impending death in combat.

4. "Oh, for the touch of a vanish'd hand and the sound of a voice that is still".

Answer: Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"Break, Break, Break" is a wonderful and sad poem about lost love.

5. "For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams of the beautiful Annabel Lee".

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

"Annabel Lee" is Poe's autobiographical tribute to his lost child-bride.

6. "Now that I am without you all is desolate, everything that was once so beautiful is dead".

Answer: Conrad Aiken

These lines from "Discordants" are preceded by: "Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread that I broke with you was more than bread". The sadness is palpable.

7. "But she is in her grave and oh - the difference to me".

Answer: William Wordsworth

This is one of the "Lucy" poems by Wordsworth. Again, the sadness is undeniable.

8. "It may be he shall take my hand and lead me into his dark land".

Answer: Alan Seeger

Seeger went from an Ivy League college to the battlefields of World War I. There, he wrote "I Have a Rendezvous With Death". Unfortunately, he kept the appointment.

9. "And now I live - and now my life is done".

Answer: Chidiock Tichbourne

Tichbourne, a conspirator in the Guy Fawkes plot, was put to death at an early age. This poem, usually called "Requiem" or "On Eve of his Execution", is particularly touching because of the surrounding circumstances.

10. "Even the beloved clear stars look desolately down since I learned in my heart that Love can die".

Answer: Hermann Hesse

Hesse, a melancholy poet, wrote "How Heavy the Days Are". Hesse knew a good deal about "heavy days".

Source: Author robert362

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