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1. W.B Yeats wrote "A shudder in the loins engenders there the broken wall, the burning roof and tower and Agamemnon dead." Name the poem.
2. Who wrote these lines?
"That time of year thou mayst in me behold
when yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
upon the boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang."
3. Which British historian and poet wrote this?
"Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the gate:
"To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his gods"
4. Name the Anglo-Indian poet/writer who wrote:
"As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the gods of the market place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the gods of the copybook headings, I notice, outlast them all."
5. Steven Vincent Benet explored the American Civil War in his epic "John Brown's Body". Who was he describing when he wrote this?
"We can fail and fail,
But, deep against the failure, something wars,
Something goes forward, something lights a match,
Something gets up from Sangamon county ground
Armed with a bitten and blunted axe
And after twenty thousand wasted strokes
Brings the tall hemlock crashing to the ground."
6. This Victorian British poet described this wandering epic figure as follows:
"It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
Who's the poet and character?
7. A.E.Houseman penned these first lines:
"That time you won the town the race
We chaired you through the market place;
Man and boy stood cheering by,
And home we brought you shoulder high."
What's the theme of this poem?
8. This American poet, strongly identified with New England, limned natural beauty in these first lines:
"Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow."
Who was it?
9. "Sweet Auburn, the loveliest village on the plain" is from which poem?
10. This English Romantic, said to be "mad, bad and dangerous to know," wrote:
"When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home,
Let him combat for that of his neighbours;
Let him think of the glories of Greece and of Rome,
And get knocked on the head for his labours."
Who is it?
Source: Author
Craterus
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