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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Death Be Not Proud (in his Holy Sonnets) if they ask about a metaphysical poet then it is probably this guy | John Donne |
| To His Excellency, George Washington and On Being Brought From Africa to America | Phyllis Wheatley |
| Thanatopsis | William Cullen Bryant |
| To a Waterfowl | William Cullen Bryant |
| Annabel Lee | Poe |
| The Raven | Poe |
| The Bells | Poe |
| Concord Hymn | Emerson |
| To a Skylark | Percy Shelley |
| The Song of Hiawatha | Longfellow |
| Paul Revere | Longfellow |
| Evangeline | Longfellow |
| Questions about this poet normally reference Minnehaha in about clue 4-5 (just before the giveaway clue) | Longfellow |
| The Wasteland | TS Eliot |
| Old Ironsides | Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| The Chambered Nautilus | Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| Snow Bound | Whittier |
| Howl | Ginsberg |
| O Captain! My Captain! | Whitman |
| I Sing The Body Electric | Whitman |
| Song of Myself | Whitman |
| When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom | Whitman |
| Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | Thomas Gray |
| Ode on a Grecian Urn | Keats |
| Because I Could Not Stop For Death | Emily Dickinson |
| I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died | Emily Dickinson |
| Casey at the Bat | Thayer |
| The New Colossus (clues typically use the lines: Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free) | Emma Lazarus |
| Song of the Chattahoochee | Lanier |
| Ode to a Nightingale | Keats |
| Paradise Lost | John Milton |
| Richard Cory | Robinson |
| Miniver Cheevy | Robinson |
| Chicago | Sandburg |
| Faust | Goethe (Ger-tu) |
| The Love Song of J. Alfred Pufrock | TS Eliot |
| Ode to the Westwind | Percy Shelley |
| The Charge of the Light Brigade | Tennyson |
| The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| The Cantos | Ezra Pound |
| The Red Wheelbarrow | William Carlos Williams |
| Fire and Ice | Frost |
| Mending Wall | Frost |
| The Road Not Taken | Frost |
| The Death of the Hired Man | Frost |
| Birches | Frost |
| He read "The Gift Outright" at JFK's inauguration | Frost |
| Daddy | Plath |
| Ode to Joy (poem) | Schiller |
| The Tyger | Blake |
| The Faerie Queene | Spenser |
| Decameron | Boccaccio |
| Tintern Abbey | Wordsworth |
| My Last Duchess | Robert Browning |
| anyone lived in a pretty how town | ee cummings |
| The Weary Blues | Langston Hughes |
| The Negro Speaks | Hughes |
| Rape of the Lock | Pope |
| Second Coming | Yeats |
| Easter, 1916 | Yeats |
| Ozymandias | Percy Shelley |
| To His Coy Mistress | Marvell |
| Dover Beach | Matthew Arnold |
| Ulysses (poem) | Tennyson |
| Metamorphoses (poem) | Ovid |
| Dulce Et Decorum Est | Owen |
| These two together combined to create the collection "Lyrical Ballads" | Wordsworth and Coleridge |