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Poetry Thoughts Trivia Quiz

Here are some interesting lines. See if you can match the excerpt to the poet who wrote it.

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

Author
robert362

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
35,411

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
5 / 10

Plays
1186

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. 'Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice' Hint

Carl Sandburg

Robert Frost

Thomas Gray

William Blake

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Question 2 of 10

2. 'Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returnest Was not written of the soul' Hint

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thomas Hood

Walt Whitman

Matthew Arnold

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Question 3 of 10

3. 'When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say ... ' Hint

A.E. Housman

Robert Burns

John Clare

Jon Greenleaf Whittier

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Question 4 of 10

4. 'A waste of breath the years behind In balance with this life, this death' Hint

Dante Rossetti

John Masefield

Dylan Thomas

William Butler Yeats

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Question 5 of 10

5. 'We are the Dead, short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow' Hint

Alan Seeger

John McCRae

Hart Crane

Rudyard Kipling

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Question 6 of 10

6. 'Between the Idea And the Reality, Between the Motion And the Act Falls the Shadow' Hint

John Donne

T S Eliot

Ted Hughes

Ezra Pound

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Question 7 of 10

7. 'This is a world of sweets and sours. Our flowers are merely - flowers. And the shadow of thy perfect bliss Is the sunshine of ours' Hint

Edgar Allan Poe

Ernest Dowson

Oscar Wilde

William Ernest Henley

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Question 8 of 10

8. 'Hence, nothing better has ever been known But that all that is hard is done alone' Hint

Rainer Maria Rilke

Arthur Rimbaud

Charles Baudelaire

Hermann Hesse

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Question 9 of 10

9. 'Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me' Hint

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Emily Dickinson

Christina Rossetti

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Question 10 of 10

10. 'Water, water, everywhere ...' Hint

W. H. Auden

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

John Dryden

Paul Verlaine

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. 'Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice'

Answer: Robert Frost

'Fire and Ice' is the name of the poem

2. 'Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returnest Was not written of the soul'

Answer: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

'Psalm of Life'

3. 'When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say ... '

Answer: A.E. Housman

'And I am two-and twenty, and oh!, tis true, tis true'

4. 'A waste of breath the years behind In balance with this life, this death'

Answer: William Butler Yeats

'An Irish Airman Foresees His Death'

5. 'We are the Dead, short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow'

Answer: John McCRae

In Flanders Field' - a legendary war poem

6. 'Between the Idea And the Reality, Between the Motion And the Act Falls the Shadow'

Answer: T S Eliot

'The Hollow Men'

7. 'This is a world of sweets and sours. Our flowers are merely - flowers. And the shadow of thy perfect bliss Is the sunshine of ours'

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

'Israfel'

8. 'Hence, nothing better has ever been known But that all that is hard is done alone'

Answer: Hermann Hesse

One might also say that all that is done alone is hard

9. 'Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me'

Answer: Emily Dickinson

Prolific writer

10. 'Water, water, everywhere ...'

Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'

Source: Author robert362

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