Wilde About Poetry Trivia Quiz

Answer: Donna

"La Bella Donna Della Mia Mente" is Italian for The Beautiful Lady Of My Memory. The poem discusses a knight's love for his lady. Oscar Wilde describes the woman in the poem as pale and beaten.

Answer: Feet of clay

In Oscar Wilde's poem "Theoretikos", the mighty empire described has feet of clay. Theoretikos means contemplative. The poem comes from Oscar Wilde's book of poetry titled "Wind Flowers", put together in 1890.

Answer: New Life

"I stood by the unvintageable sea
Till the wet waves drenched face and hair with spray;
The long red fires of the dying day
Burned in the west; the wind piped drearily;
And to the land the clamorous gulls did flee:
'Alas!' I cried, 'my life is full of pain,
And who can garner fruit or golden grain
From these waste fields which travail ceaselessly!'
My nets gaped wide with many a break and flaw,
Nathless I threw them as my final cast
Into the sea, and waited for the end.
When lo! a sudden glory! and I saw
From the black waters of my tortured past
The argent splendour of white limbs ascend!"

Answer: Christ

Oscar Wilde addresses a question to Christ in the first sentence of the poem "On the Massacre Of Christians In Bulgaria". Oscar asks Christ if he is real or just bones in the sepulchre. Oscar wrote this poem after reading John Milton's poem "On The Late Massacre At Piedmont".

Answer: Western

"Serenade" by Oscar Wilde was written as part of a book called "Poems" published in 1881. "Serenade" is about a man waiting for his lover to come to him. "Serenade" takes place in the city of Tyre, Lebanon. Oscar wrote several poems and plays about the city of Tyre. This particular poem comes out of his book of poetry titled "Wind Flowers" put together in 1890.

Answer: No

In the early morning hours before sunrise, a hunter spots a faun and tracks it, but can't quite catch it. According to the internet, a faun is a half-human, half-goat creature that lives in the forest.

Answer: Red and Black

Black is mentioned as the color of the ravens that circled the air and red was the color of the roses that was laid at the woman's feet and put in her hair and breasts. Before being put into Wilde's book of poetry titled "Poems", "The Dole of the King's Daughter" was first published in a Dublin magazine.

Answer: Withered leaf

"The Silhouettes" is a poem about a sailor boy playing a boat. Oscar Wilde's poem is also known by "Les Silhouettes".

Answer: The land where the daffodils blow

In the second stanza of "Under The Balcony", the man and his love want to go to the land where the daffodils blow in the heart of a violet dale.

Answer: False

"The Sphynx" is eighty-seven stanzas long. Oscar dedicated the poem to his friend Marcel Schwob for his friendship and admiration.