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Poems/Poets
Poetry
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Second Coming, Easter 1916, and Brown Penny | William Butler Yeats |
| Ode on a Grecian Urn and Eve of St. Anges | John Keats |
| Prelude and Tinturn Abby | William Wordsworth |
| Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Ode to the West Wind and To a Skylark | Percy Shelly |
| Don Juan, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and She Walks in Beauty | Lord Byron |
| 20th century American poet who wrote tulips and chimneys and was know for odd capitalization and punctuation | Cummings |
| 19th century American poet who wrote Paul Revere's Ride, The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. | Henry Longfellow |
| English Metaphysical poet (the only Metaphysical poet they ask) | John Donne |
| 19th century American poet who wrote about death and dying with those words often in the titles | Emily Dickinson |
| 19th century British poet who wrote The Charge of the Light Brigade and Crossing the Bar | Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| 19th century French poet and novelist (known mostly for his novels Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables) considered the greatest French poet of all times | Victor Hugo |
| 20th century French anarchist poet | Andre Breton |
| 20th century American poet of the Beat generation who wrote Howl | Allen Ginsberg |
| Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | Thomas Gray |
| 20th century Chilean poet who greatly inspired Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Pablo Neruda |
| 20th century African American poet born in Joplin Missouri who wrote jazz poetry and greatly influenced the Harlem Renaissance | Langston Hughes |
| 20-21st century African American poet who wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou |
| 19th century American poet who wrote Leaves of Grass, O Captain, My Captain, and I Hear America Singing | Walt Whitman |
| 18-19th century English poet who wrote The Tyger (the spelling is correct) | William Blake |
| 18th century Scottish poet considered the national poet of Scotland who wrote Auld Lang Syne | Robert Burns |
| German poet who wrote Faust | Goethe |
| 13-14th century Italian poet who wrote the Divine Comedy | Dante |
| Greek poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey | Homer |
| 20th century American poet who wrote The Road Not Taken and Mending Wall. Famous quote: "Good fences make good neighbors. | Robert Frost |
| English Victorian era poet who wrote How do I Love Thee | Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| 20th century American poet who wrote Light in the Attic and Where the Sidewalk Ends | Shel Silverstein |
| 20th century poet and novelist who wrote the Bell Jar (novel) and killed herself | Silvia Plath |
| American poet and political essayist who wrote the Wasteland | T.S. Elliot |
| 20th century Welsh poet who wrote Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night | Dylan Thomas |
| 16-17th century English poet and playwright who is considered the greatest English language writer and wrote 38 plays and 154 sonnets | William Shakespeare |
| Huswifery | Taylor |
| To His Excellency, General Washington | Wheatley |
| Thanatopsis | Bryant |
| To a Water Fowl | Bryant |
| To Helen | Poe |
| Tamerlane | Poe |
| Concord Hymn | Emerson |
| To Rhodora | Emerson |
| The Wreck of the Hesperus | Longfellow |
| The Courtship of Miles Standish | Longfellow |
| Evangelin | Longfellow |
| A Psalm of Life | Longfellow |
| The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls | Longfellow |
| Old Ironsides | Holmes |
| The Chambered Nautilius | Holmes |
| Snow-Bound | Whittier |
| A Winter Idyll | Whittier |
| I Hear America Singing | Whitman |
| When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer | Whitman |
| Song of Myself | Whitman |
| When Lilac Last in the Door Yard Bloomed | Whitman |
| Leaves of Grass | Whitman |
| This is my Letter to the World | Dickinson |
| I Never Saw a Moor | Dickinson |
| The Soul selects her own society | Dickinson |
| Success is cournted sweetest | Dickinson |
| I Felt a Funeral in My Brain | Dickinson |
| Because I could not stop for death | Dickinson |
| I heard a fly buzz--when I died-- | Dickinson |
| Casey at the Bat | Thayer |
| the new colosseus | Lazarus |
| Song of the Chattahoochee | Lanier |
| The Marshes of Glynn | Lanier |
| Spoon River Anthology | Masters |
| Richard Cory | Robinson |
| Miniver Chivy | Robinson |
| Chicago Poems | Sandburg |
| The People, Yes | Sandburg |
| The Love Song of J. Alfred Pufrock | Eliot |
| The Hollow Men | Eliot |
| John Brown's Body | Benet |
| Trees | Kilmer |
| The Cantos | Pound |
| The Red Wheelbarrow | Williams |
| Fire and Ice | Frost |
| Acquainted With the Night | Frost |
| Out,Out -- | Frost |
| The Death of the Hired man | Frost |
| The Unknown Citizen | Auden |
| Daddy | Plath |
| Ariel | Plath |
| The Collossus | Plath |
| Patterns | Lowell |
| Renascence | Millay |
| A Few Figs from Thistles | Millay |
| The Harp Weaver | Millay |
| The Negro Speaks | Hughes |
| The Dream Keeper | Hughes |
| an Italian scholar and poet during the early Italian Renaissance who was one of the earliest humanists | Petrarch |
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